4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (557+ words) And nothing says fun quite like a spicy margarita, am I right? Little bit of lime, little bit of salt—it’s basically a health drink, chock full of essential vitamins and electrolytes. I’ll pour us a couple and we’ll jump…...

5+ day, 5+ hour ago   (212+ words) The indie publisher Inpatient Press is doing fascinating, form-breaking work. The small publisher has been putting out fascinating novels, collections, zines and games since 2013. Inpatient’s publisher, Mitch Anzuoni, studied computer science and creative writing in college (fittingly) and aims “to…...

5+ day, 9+ hour ago   (1313+ words) On my second day as a rookie English teacher at my alma mater, Stuyvesant High School, I walked down the fourth floor hallway on my way to class. Behind a thick column, lurking in the shadows, a kind looking man…...

6+ day, 7+ hour ago   (501+ words) The weather has become untrustworthy, for determining the seasons and otherwise. As I write this introduction, the leaves remain stubbornly green, and outside my window there is torrential rain. But at the farmer’s market this past weekend, I walked down…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (405+ words) Literary Hub This Week in Literary History: William S. Burroughs Kills Joan Vollmer in a Drunken Game of “William Tell” The Most Notorious Party “Game” in Literary History On the afternoon of September 6, 1951, in a friend’s Mexico City apartment, a drunk…...

6+ day, 9+ hour ago   (290+ words) After Lorrie Moore and Kiese Laymon. You chose this program based on money and because you never had a Black person of any gender teach you anything about writing or reading. You learned math and Black Studies and the safest…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (145+ words) But isn’t desire the place where so many stories begin? Someone wants something. And then something gets in the way of that wanting, and all of a sudden, we have the conflict and we have a story. Tips for Writing…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (450+ words) Emily Wilson, chairwoman of classical studies at the University of Pennsylvania, best-selling translator, and website-crashing Christopher Nolan hater, is going back to retranslate The Odyssey less than a decade after the publication of her 2017 modernizing take on the epic. This…...

2+ week, 2+ hour ago   (182+ words) My novel The Rayburn Affair lays bare notions of friendship, rivalry, envy, authorship, and power. Set in both a university setting and the publishing industry, two places fraught with opportunities for paranoid rivalries and competition, I let my characters loose…...

2+ week, 3+ hour ago   (166+ words) Another month of books, another month of book covers. The books of August were as lush as you might expect, though not always in the usual ways. Here are a few of my favorites from the end of summer. What’d…...