"In Emmaus’ obsessively catalogued auction house, human figures are dwarfed by time and failure, and yet rendered oddly, touchingly precious..." Read More
"Comprehensive in scope, editor Katherine Bucknell has worked with Bachardy to amass all the letters known to exist that the couple ever exchanged." Read More
"I’ve always had little patience for people who have no idea what’s going on in the world. I’d say read five newspapers a day and you’re never boring." Read More
Michael Cunningham: On Writing Sex, the Creative Process, and Why New York City is (Not) for Writers
"Eroticism is difficult to write about, I think, because everybody’s sense of the erotic is so personal, and so private. What’s hot to me might very well be repellent to you, and vice versa." Read More
"In The Snow Queen, Cunningham reminds us that no matter the form in which love arrives, we should consider ourselves lucky." Read More
High school athlete Brendan wrestles with pronouns, his girlfriend Vanessa grapples to keep him from shutting her out, while Angel—a...
"McLane has made me appreciate the artful ways that 'high' and 'low' diction co-exist in her own work—and more than co-exist: the ways her idiosyncratic approach to poeming thrives through deft and playful juxtaposition." Read More
“I had to write about Hild because she was so important. She changed the world. Her story demands to be told. She basically midwifed English literature. And there’s no book about this woman. The more I thought about it, the more I thought, well, why?” Read More
The poems of Carl Phillips are not an easy read; that is their innate pleasure. Over time, they become, to...
Griffith moves easily between genres, from science fiction to noir thriller and back, always with a taut language sense and an elegant, fast-moving story. In Hild, she has written a historical novel of thrilling depth. Read More
