Authorship

Traduttore, Traditore!

By Mikaël Gómez Guthart, Ariana Harwicz, Translated by Sarah Moses,

From an email conversation between Mikaël Gómez Guthart and Ariana Harwicz after meeting at a book launch for their works in Paris last year. The discussion was published in the…

These Precious Days

By Ann Patchett,

Tell me how the story ends

Making Meaning

By Garth Greenwell,

Against “relevance” in art

Making Meaning

Host Harper’s Magazine, Guest Garth Greenwell on October 30, 2020

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The Lives of Others

By Richard Russo,

When does imagination become appropriation?

White Light/White Heat

By Moyra Davey,

From “Burn the Diaries,” an essay in the collection Index Cards, which will be published this month by New Directions. blankness In a volume of interviews, Jean Genet reconstructs the…

Regarding the Pen of Others

By Benjamin Moser,

By Benjamin Moser, from Sontag: Her Life and Work, which will be published by Ecco this month. “In the Freudian conception,” wrote one author, “as it gradually emerged through these…

Whisperings

By David Means,

A writer alone with the work

Good Plain English

By Nat Segnit,

The problem with writing manuals

I Began the Day

By Renee Gladman,

By Renee Gladman, from Calamities, a collection of linked essays that was published this month by Wave Books. Gladman is the author of eight works of prose, including the novel…

No-Name Calling

By J.D. McClatchy,

By J. D. McClatchy, from Sweet Theft, which was published in April by Counterpoint Press. The book collects notes and quotations compiled by the poet over three decades. McClatchy is…

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Traduttore, Traditore!

These Precious Days

Making Meaning

Making Meaning

The Lives of Others

White Light/White Heat

Regarding the Pen of Others

Whisperings

Good Plain English

I Began the Day

No-Name Calling

June 2016