Day: February 22, 2024

Barbara Dee on How She Got Her Writing ‘Unstuck’

Reading Time: 1 Min. Barbara Dee is the author of 14 middle grade novels, including Violets Are Blue and Maybe He Just Likes You . In her essay for PW , Dee reflects on her creative process and her forthcoming book, Unstuck , about a girl who struggles with anxiety and writer’s block. Every writer […]

On the Road With ‘The Outsiders,’ Where the Greasers and Socs Rumbled

Reading Time: 1 Min. The Great Read It’s one of the best-selling Y.A. novels of all time and a star-studded Coppola movie from the ’80s. On its way to Broadway, the show’s cast and creators paid S.E. Hinton a visit. Members of “The Outsiders” cast in Tulsa, from left, Emma Pittman, Kevin William Paul, Dan […]

Amy Herzog’s Plays Are Quiet, but Audiences Can’t Look Away

Reading Time: 1 Min. She has become known an Ibsen whisper, bringing “An Enemy of the People” to Broadway this spring, along with a play of her own, which stars Rachel McAdams. As she worked on an adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s play “An Enemy of the People,” Amy Herzog said, “I felt like I was […]

A Reflective “Sunset Baby” Dawns Off Broadway

Reading Time: 1 Min. Theatre is a mirror, but for what? We quote “Hamlet,” saying that performance should hold a “mirror up to nature”; in an interview, the playwright Dominique Morisseau cited Nina Simone, who said that an artist’s duty is “to reflect the times.” Nature, right; the times, of course—the theatre should reflect those […]

Erica Berry on the Polyamorous Intimacy of Reader, Author, and Audiobook Narrator

Reading Time: 1 Min. I always imagined, that, given the choice, I would read my own audiobook. I had heard memoirs often sounded best in the author’s throat—something about the familiar tang of the hardship unspooled. But had I written a memoir? A bookseller acquaintance asked me that a year before the publication of my […]

Leslie Jamison Writes Into the Trouble

Reading Time: 1 Min. Leslie Jamison’s memoir, Splinters , is available now from Little, Brown, so we asked her a few questions about writing, reading, alternative professions, and more. * How do you tackle writers’ block? Back in my youth, I tackled writers’ block in the time-honored ways: binge drinking and massive amounts of baking. […]

Am I the Literary Assh*le? In Which Everyone Talks Sh*t About Everyone Else

Reading Time: 1 Min. We’re back for round three of the internet’s favorite drunken biweekly “news” report, Am I the Literary Asshole—the only advice column that asks you to consider the fact that BOGO wine isn’t just a lifestyle, it’s also a state of mind. Today I ask you to join me for a glass […]