Above the Fold Read time 13 minutes Photography by Torkil Stavdal. The novelist joins Document to discuss his new collection of prose on the work of Nan Goldin, Rachel Harrison, and several others Jonathan Lethem wants to do everything a writer can do at least once. His double-digit count of novels, including The Fortress of […]
This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter— sign up here . I always take my characters grocery shopping when I’m working on a novel. I like to push a cart around a supermarket, deciding what my character will buy. It’s the single best way for me to understand a character well enough […]
Photo by Lance Anderson on Unsplash If you lose your hearing, how does the world around you change? What contours of one-on-one conversations become harder to make out, what details of a bustling room come into sharper focus? What creature comforts do you stubbornly cling to all the while? Adèle Rosenfeld’s Jellyfish Have No Ears […]
