Welcome to the fourth edition of Am I the Literary Asshole, the only biweekly “advice” column that asks you to consider the fact that “it’s five o’clock somewhere” is the true existential quandary of our time. RIP Jimmy Buffett, you would have loved the open bar at my wedding. I’ve been delighted by the flood […]
Erika De La Rosa was excited when she heard about the sweeping changes to the STAAR exam . “When they initially announced it, as an English teacher, it sounded like a fantastic idea because writing should be incorporated everywhere,” De La Rosa said. She teaches seventh grade in Houston ISD. Before last year, writing was […]
The publication of “Until August” adds an surprising twist to his legacy, and may stir questions about posthumous releases that contradict a writer’s directives. The publication of a last book by Gabriel García Márquez — shown here between his two sons — may raise questions about how literary estates navigate posthumous releases that contradict a […]
The Iowa Writers’ Workshop professor and recent New York Times bestselling author of “Martyr!” spoke with the DI about his recovery from addiction and his subsequent necessity of writing. Avi Lapchick , Arts Editor Ethan McLaughlin Kaveh Akbar speaks during a panel on Leslie Jamison’s newest novel, Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story, at Prairie […]
Once, when I was very stuck on a book I was writing, I went shopping for a pair of pants. I didn’t know it, but the store I went to was running a promotion: Buy a pair of pants and get a free notebook. Or maybe it was: Spend a certain amount of money and […]
IN THE CORNER of the internet dedicated to the arcana of MTV’s Teen Mom franchise, the “good edit” is a topic of frequent debate. Whose footage is cut and arranged in an arc towards redemption, whose towards failure? In her new memoir Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story , Leslie Jamison exhibits a similar concern […]
The following is from Hwang Bo-Reum’s debut novel, Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop . Hwang Bo-reum wrote several essay collections: I Read Every Day, I Tried Kickboxing for the First Time and This Distance is Perfect. Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop has sold over 150,000 copies in Korea and been sold into 9 territories. Before […]
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, […]
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