Patricia Lockwood: “I like the things people on the internet can’t talk about.”
March 9, 2021
The author’s debut novel, No One Is Talking About This, is about the internet. Here, she takes us on a virtual tour of the memes that helped her write it.
Anne Helen Peterson: “What else is there but my ability to work?”
October 14, 2020
The journalist and academic on defining the burnout generation—and literally writing the book on it.
Maisy Card: “There is this hazy quality to my family history that no amount of research can clarify.”
April 28, 2020
The author unpacks the archival finds and emotional reckonings behind a novel that took her 12 years to write.
Shannon Pufahl: Queering the Western
November 21, 2019
A slow-burning epic, On Swift Horses paints a new picture of our American mythology.
Sarah Blake: A Biblical Woman Gets a Modern Voice
April 9, 2019
The author of the stunning debut novel Naamah on reimagining the story of the ark to be feminist and surreal, with a healthy dose of agnosticism.
Idra Novey: Silence Is Complicity
November 7, 2018
The novelist, poet, and translator on the responsibilities we hold, the consequences of silence, and writing cross-genre.
Heather Havrilesky: Digging for Something Real
November 1, 2018
The author of “What If This Were Enough?” on honest writing, raising kids with social media, and the growing pains of a constantly-wired culture.
