2+ week, 5+ day ago   (316+ words) Noveno teaches composition and literature at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York, and is the founder and host emeritus of the New York City reading series Sunday Salon. Her work has appeared in Mãnoa, Identity…...

1+ mon, 20+ hour ago   (123+ words) Kearsley began her career as a business journalist before becoming a ghostwriter for Fortune 500 tech and finance companies. Her work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Money Magazine, Forbes, and elsewhere, and she writes the humor newsletter Does That…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (569+ words) Amanda Nyren: You’re a dating columnist who’s written a romantic comedy about how hard modern dating is. From your expert perspective, why is it so hard? Annie Lord: Apps and the way that they abstract people has made it all…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (596+ words) Leila Renee is a writer whose fiction has appeared in McSweeney’s, The Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. A recipient of the Gulf Coast Prize in Fiction and a Fulbright Award, and an MFA graduate of Syracuse University, she now makes her…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (373+ words) What makes a great short story collection? In Debutiful’s latest Q&A series, Inside the Collection, short story writers will take readers through their writing, editing, and sequencing of their debut short story collection. In our latest Inside the Collection…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (735+ words) Tsahai Makeda: I just finished the book a couple hours ago. I like to read the books close to the interview, so it’s in the front of my head when we’re talking about it. This book is really one of…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (578+ words) I caught up with Newton to discuss writing a novel from the inside out, how screenwriting shaped her approach to fiction, capturing a specific moment in New York’s cultural history, and why embracing life’s messiness became the book’s guiding principle....

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (219+ words) We asked Chozick to answer our recurring My Reading Life Q&A so readers can get to know the books that shaped her life and influenced her writing. What was the first book you were obsessed with as a child?...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (460+ words) We asked Lauter to answer our recurring My Reading Life Q&A so readers can get to know the books that shaped her life and influenced her writing. What was the first book you were obsessed with as a child?...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago   (766+ words) What happens when one day, one impulsive decision, one declined call is what defines the rest of your life? Alicia Upano‘s debut is a love story, it’s a natural disaster novel, and most of all, it’s a haunting reckoning…...