Readings

'Female Friendship as Survival Strategy': An Interview with Jennifer Reeder

The director of Crystal Lake on short films, the power of props, and how we cope weirder as we get older. 

Nathan Hill in Conversation with John Irving

 The authors discuss Hill’s debut work, his love of dysfunction, and why you need to think about writing a novel the way you think about keeping a garden. 

'At First You Don't Want Death to Mean Anything': An Interview with Kristopher Jansma

The author of Why We Came to the City on losing someone to cancer too young, and how New York reminds everyone they're not special. 

The Art of the Box Score

It’s hard to enjoy baseball if you don’t know what you’re looking for. And the box score teaches you how to do just that.

Writing Fan Fiction with Margaret Atwood

Talking with the author about her new prison-set adaptation of Shakespeare's The Tempest, Hag-Seed.

'I'm Happy When I’m Inside a Book and I’m Not When I’m Not': An Interview with Jonathan Safran Foer

Talking with the author of Here I Am about different notions of home, the downsides of television development, and whether or not he'll ever write another book.

The Three Lives of Malvina Schwartz

Butches, Femmes, and Mobsters: Inside the world of America's early drag superstars.

'He's Going to Go to His Island to Scream': An Interview with Kevin Barry

Talking with the author of Beatlebone about fictionalizing the life of John Lennon, the hard time Kate Bush gets in the book, and why rock novels are almost always disasters.

The Snarling Girl

Notes on—and against—ambition.