I believe in towering ambition when it’s you alone with your work, but out in the world, I don’t think being a good artist is more important than being a good person.
Review: The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
by Jaime R. Herndon The incessant name-dropping of various authors, pop culture references and literary theories clutters the first part of the book. It makes the novel feel self-absorbed.
Danielle Evans named 5 under 35 by the National Book Foundation
Fiction from Danielle Evans, who was recently selected for the National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35,” will appear in Issue 50.
Interview: Author Daniel Menaker
by Ella Delaney If you want to be a journalist or probably even a writer in general, a reporter in the broadest sense of the word, you already have that curiosity which comes from wondering what your parents are up…
Review: No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
by Ella Delany Yet the success of the No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series suggests we are happy to leave reality tucked away.
Review: Inside By Alex Ohlin
by Yardenne Greenspan As an MFA student, I find this book comforting.
Review: Summer 2010’s Greatest Hits
by Austen Rosenfeld Rather than telling stories the“old- fashioned” way, a consistent forward-moving narrative revealed from a single protagonist, these books present their stories from multiple vistas, shifting first person accounts, retelling the same event via alternate realities. They are…
Interview with Author Jon Michaud
Good early readers—that is readers who are honest, insightful, and unafraid to tell the truth—can save a writer months of work.