The heroine of Danzy Senna’s new book is a novelist envious of the material pleasures all around her in Hollywood. COLORED TELEVISION, by Danzy Senna Danzy Senna’s “Colored Television” is among the first major novels of 2024’s truncated fall book season — truncated because few publishers want to release a novel anywhere near the blast […]
Kelly Blatz directing KJ Apa in ‘One Fast Move.’ Photo Credit: Frank Masi. Filmmaker Kelly Blatz chatted about writing and directing the action thriller “One Fast Move,” which premiered on Amazon Prime Video. Working with the cast of actors The cast features KJ Apa , Eric Dane , Maia Reficco, Edward James Olmos, Austin North, […]
Helen Fisher in her office in Manhattan in 2005. Her research was driven by a belief that there was an untapped scientific basis for the intense, often irrational, human mating drive. Helen E. Fisher, a biological anthropologist who went looking for love in the brain circuitry of people who were besotted as well as people […]
Photo by noah eleazar on Unsplash As a writer of both prose and poetry, I love to read work that falls between genres. Whether it’s fiction that leans into lyricism so unabashedly it should be called a poem, or a poem so loaded with narrative that it is, in effect, a lyrical essay, I celebrate […]
Hello, writers and frenz. The word is “Faugh!” As expletives go, it’s sprinkled around 18th and 19th century British lit, so probably in conversation too, if disappearing in the 20th, perhaps due to what it sounds and maybe looks like it means, which some sources say it doesn’t: Irish regiments in various armies reportedly used […]
Photo by Cristina Gottardi on Unsplash Wolfgang Mozart was remarkable. But then, so was his sister Nannerl. We’ve heard a lot about George Orwell, less about his fascinating wife Eileen O’Shaughnessy. How familiar are you with Dame Alice Kyteler, the first woman in Ireland to be condemned as a witch? Or Marie de France, a […]
Following Elon Musk’s estranged daughter Vivian Jenna Wilson’s accusations of unethical behavior on the part of Musk’s authorized biographer, memoirist Kelly McMasters and biographer Iris Jamahl Dunkle join co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to talk about the ethics of biography. Dunkle, the author of Riding Like the Wind: The Life of Sanora Babb , […]
SLOW BUT STEADY: A box turtle on the Barnegat Branch Trail is one of the author’s little discoveries that help motivate her to keep going. (Photo courtesy of Robin Lentz Worgan) I spend my summers on LBI. This summer I resolved to find a dirt trail off the Island to run on because I am […]
Seven years ago, I was sitting in a writing workshop getting the kind of feedback I dreaded…The workshop leader spoke of how every novel she’d written had come from her obsessions. Something slipped in me when she said this. It was what I most feared: my novel wasn’t working, my writing wasn’t working, because it […]
Writers weigh in on their nominated episodes, including from the series “Fallout”; “The Crown”; “What We Do in the Shadows”; and “Hacks.” Can a whole episode of a TV show be boiled down into one single — if key — scene? Maybe that shouldn’t be the case, but at The Envelope we like to say, […]
