Author Breakthroughs, Henry James’s Memoirs, and More
Patti Smith on Frida Kahlo’s love letters; controversial book rises to prominence; New York Times names media columnist replacement for David Carr; and other news.
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Novel Gossip, Expression as Negotiation, and More
Three Amazon series based on books; new Jonathan Safran Foer coming next fall; PANK editors bid farewell; and other news.
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Poor Your Soul by Mira Ptacin
Mira Ptacin reads an excerpt from her debut memoir, Poor Your Soul, published in January by Soho Press.
Poor Your Soul
I know some things. I know you set the backyard on fire. It was autumn. You were six years old. The oak...
Project Empathy: Facing Difficult Material
An accomplished novelist and memoirist offers advice on how to write creative nonfiction with empathy and respect.
Short Story Vending Machines, Writers Who Run, and More
Value of first editions of twentieth-century classics increases; Roland Barthes at one hundred; “experimental” Millennial bookstore to open in London; and other news.
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Ampersand Extra: Jesse Browner Interview
Ampersand hosts Kevin Larimer and Melissa Faliveno sit down with Jesse Browner, the author of How Did I Get Here? Making Peace With the Road Not Taken, published this month by Harper Wave, to talk about the new book and the decisions we...
Why We Write: San Francisco 2015
Melissa Faliveno, associate editor of Poets & Writers Magazine, leads a conversation with authors Wendy Lesser, Yiyun Li, Alejandro Murguia, D. A. Powell, and Michelle Tea about the personal, political, and professional reasons we...
Visiting Hours by Amy Butcher
Amy Butcher reads from her debut memoir, Visiting Hours: A Memoir of Friendship and Murder, published in April by Blue Rider Press.
As my car cuts across the countryside toward Kevin's prison, the sun like yolk across the fields, I...
Lord Fear by Lucas Mann
Lucas Mann reads from his memoir, Lord Fear, forthcoming in May from Pantheon Books.
[NOTEBOOK, UNDATED, “THE MATTER OF THE DRUGS”]: Rules!!– ANY substance cannot be taken two days concurrently. I will keep it to twice per...
Far From Ordinary: A Profile of Tracy K. Smith
In Ordinary Light, Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Tracy K. Smith embraces a fuller sense of herself as a writer while cementing the connection between her children and her ancestors using the best glue she knows: words.
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