Day: May 31, 2023

Former ‘Lost’ Scribe Shares More Tales From Writers Room; “I Do Hope Future Abusers Will Be Deterred”

Javier Grillo-Marxuach , ‘LOST’, (from left): Jeremy Davies, Terry O’Quinn, Michael Emerson, Matthew Fox, Elizabeth Mitchell, Josh Holloway, Yunjin Kim, Evangeline Lilly, Rebecca Mader, Jorge Garcia, Henry Ian Cusick, Naveen Andrews, Ken Leung, After his quotes about writing for Lost appeared in a Vanity Fair book excerpt Tuesday, veteran scribe Javier Grillo-Marxuach doubled down via […]

Former ‘Lost’ Scribe Shares More Tales From Writers Room; “I Do Hope Future Abusers Will Be Deterred”

Javier Grillo-Marxuach , ‘LOST’, (from left): Jeremy Davies, Terry O’Quinn, Michael Emerson, Matthew Fox, Elizabeth Mitchell, Josh Holloway, Yunjin Kim, Evangeline Lilly, Rebecca Mader, Jorge Garcia, Henry Ian Cusick, Naveen Andrews, Ken Leung, After his quotes about writing for Lost appeared in a Vanity Fair book excerpt Tuesday, veteran scribe Javier Grillo-Marxuach doubled down via […]

Arlo Parks on Collaborating With Phoebe Bridgers and How Writing Her New Album Was Like Speaking to a ‘Best Friend or Therapist’

Arlo Parks’ sophomore album is, in some ways, accidental. “I started listening to everything I’d collected, and I was like, ‘Whoa! I pretty much got the raw material for an album here,’” she tells Variety . “I tricked myself somehow.” This helped the 22-year-old London native avoid some of the pressure that often accompanies an […]

Writing a novel brings out the little boy in Steven Wright

At 7 years old, Harold already has some pretty advanced thoughts. Why, for instance, is time measured forward and backward, “but never off to the side”? Harold is the brainchild of Steven Wright, the Boston comedian whose own mind works in delightfully mysterious ways. “Next week I’m going to have an MRI to find out […]

Arlo Parks on Collaborating With Phoebe Bridgers and How Writing Her New Album Was Like Speaking to a ‘Best Friend or Therapist’

Arlo Parks’ sophomore album is, in some ways, accidental. “I started listening to everything I’d collected, and I was like, ‘Whoa! I pretty much got the raw material for an album here,’” she tells Variety . “I tricked myself somehow.” This helped the 22-year-old London native avoid some of the pressure that often accompanies an […]

The Bluest Crab at Grandpa’s Funeral

The Bluest Crab at Grandpa’s Funeral The following story was chosen by Anthony Doerr as the winner of the 2023 Stella Kupferberg Memorial Short Story Prize. The prize is awarded annually by Selected Shorts and a guest author judge. Subscribe to Selected Shorts wherever you get your podcasts to hear this story performed by an […]

From Paul Rudnick, a Mismatched Couple but Perfect for Each Other

Following a neurotic writer and a wealthy aesthete over four bumpy decades, “Farrell Covington and the Limits of Style” is a gay rom-com that tugs at the heart. Well known as a humorist, Paul Rudnick delivers an emotional romance amid the one-liners in his new novel.Credit…Emilio Madrid When you purchase an independently reviewed book through […]