Memories of Reading John Jakes
The works of the pop-history writer, who died last week at age 90, were my first foray into “grownup” fiction
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CREATORS
The Truth About Pornhub
Susie Bright talks to Suzanne Hillinger, director of Netflix’s ‘Money Shot: The Pornhub Story’
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Fail, Fail Again
‘On Writing and Failure’ by Steven Marche feels pretty true
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Leigh Stein Explains BookTok For You
Attending a webinar by a writer who’s trying to bridge the publicity generation gap for writers
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It Happened In The Bronx?
An audiobook encounter with a novel from the 1960s leads to our exclusive interview with the narrator
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Kafka Lives
A massive new collection of Franz Kafka’s diaries provides fresh insight into his visionary work
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Burt Bacharach Changed Music in Movies Forever
The man who created the soundtrack for a generation passed away last week
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Horror Writers’ Association Kicks Tom Monteleone To The Curb
After he wrote an offensive blog post and did some podcasts criticizing the HWA’s new “woke” standards, they quickly turned a Lifetime Achievement Award Winner into a pariah. We interviewed him to see if he cares.
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The World of Paul Johnson
The late historian didn’t have a lot of friends on the left, but his popular histories help explain the present day
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Charles Simic, Among The Stars
A tribute to the poet laureate, who has died at age 84
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Russell Banks, RIP
The U.S. has lost its leading storyteller of blue-collar despair
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Why Enzensberger Matters
Germany’s greatest postwar intellectual rejected labels and opposed tyranny in all forms
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Do We Need Literary Prizes?
Haruki Murakami’s thought-provoking new essay collection says the unsayable
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Who Watches the Wattpad?
For online fiction creators like Claudia Tan, the medium is what matters most
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Showdown at Hobart Gulch
Online literary magazine editors resign over Alex Perez interview
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