The Poem Must Forgive: E. J. Koh’s The Magical Language of Others
The cruel, chain-smoking mother is so often central to the memoir. Consider The Glass Castle, The Liars’ Club, and Running with Scissors, all of which vividly capture growing up with a mom who is...
View ArticleChekhov in His Own Words
All that is nonsense though. Write what you like. If you haven’t facts make up with lyricism. In 1892, Anton Chekhov sent a letter to V. A. Tihonov including a fictitious 200-word bio. 123 years later...
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The Last Book I Loved: Dear Lil Wayne
When I was 16, I got my first job as a barista. When I was 17 and I went away to school, I got my second job as a barista. When I was 18 and I went to Texas alone for the summer, I got my third job as...
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The Last Book I Loved: The Delicacy and Strength of Lace
Letters are strange. They are written to a particular person at a particular time, but we also seem to hold onto them as if they speak to some larger significance, a wider audience. I have a friend who...
View Article“We Are Not Robots. We Do What We Can.”
Without readers, for better or worse, writers would have no one to answer to but themselves. But readers sure do ask a lot of questions. Now, writers are asking this question: Shouldn’t there be a way...
View ArticleWeekly Geekery
Email is evil… Which explains why Millennials like it so much. Probably. Speaking of Millennials, they get a fancy new, techy bookstore in London. So, that’s nice. Quitting Facebook makes you happier....
View ArticleLetter From Woolf Costs A Pretty Penny
For the Guardian, Alison Flood reports that a letter from Virginia Woolf to her friend Philip Morrel will go to auction with a guide price of £1,000-£1,500. The letter tells of Woolf’s experience...
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(K)ink: Writing While Deviant: Ames Hawkins
There’s evidence that D.H. Lawrence enjoyed an erotic power exchange relationship with his wife, that James Joyce was into scat (among other things), and that Oscar Wilde—well, most of us know what...
View ArticleOn the Auction Table
The supposedly lost letter from Neal Cassady to Jack Kerouac that inspired Kerouac’s novel, On the Road, was found in 2014. Now, the letter is being auctioned off: The 16,000-word typed letter, which...
View ArticleDreaming of Oscar
Katherine you must come to my table. I’ve got Oscar Wilde there. He’s the most marvelous man I ever met. He’s splendid! Over at the Paris Review Daily, Dan Piepenbring posted an excerpt from Katherine...
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