Writ in Water: The Good Fortunes of Peter Ho Davies
Peter Ho Davies is the author of two collections, The Ugliest House in the World and Equal Love, and the novel The Welsh Girl. His new novel, The Fortunes, is out this month.
3 Chapbook Reviews: Loving and Living in Louisiana
Sometimes, place is an obvious theme or motif in a work, while other times it informs a work in a subtler but still necessary way.
Building a Writing Community in the Woods
We came for a writing residency called Till. Unlike conferences like Breadloaf or residencies like the Fine Arts Work Center or the Millay Colony, Till is short—just a long weekend of workshops, uninterrupted writing time (with no cell phone signal), and drinking wine around bonfires.
Sketching and Writing: A Visual Artist’s Perspective
The first thing we had to do was exchange our sharpened pencils for a thick piece of charcoal. We were instructed not to hold the charcoal too tightly. A pose would often last as little as five seconds, but we were expected to capture the whole thing.
Githa Hariharan Talks Indian Femme Fatales and Politics
A collection of essays, Almost Home is a wonderland of hybrid techniques. It contains post-colonial insight that goes beyond India and keeps readers coming back for more—more labyrinthine story lines, more social commentary, more pro-woman eroticism.
Chicanas in Literature
First, let’s you and me get in my time machine. . . . Suddenly we are in a world in which the Mexican-American border is being nationally debated, the Mexican-American people are being treated as second-class citizens—are punished for speaking Spanish, for teaching Mexican-American history and culture.
On Movement: the Writer as Walker
Many writers have explored the pleasures of walking, including the likes of Virginia Woolf and Amy Hempel. There is a whole canon that depicts and analyzes the connection between moving through geographical terrains and mental ones.
Round-Up: Man Booker Prize 2016, the Passing of Edward Albee, and the World Book Capital 2018
From the Man Booker Prize 2016 Shortlist to the World Book Capital 2018, here are last week's biggest literary headlines.
Books, Magazines, and TV Guides
You can’t make someone love books if they never could afford to access them in the first place, and you can’t sustain any kind of passion for reading if you don’t have the means to do so.
An Interview With Ken Sparling
“My greatest influences are those moments in my past where I’ve been surprised, or where I’ve surprised someone. Those are the moments that stay with me. Reading Jonathan Goldstein’s book Lenny Bruce is Dead was one of those instances where I was profoundly surprised.”