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 knows the feeling: you’re […]
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 Berry, Sky Lakota-Lynch, Jason […]
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 trying to channel him, […]
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 things. But a play […]
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 debut, and I wasn’t […]
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. I did so much […]
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 (or three) as we […]
