“Writing Is Freedom and To Hell with Everything Else”
The Trump presidency, Martin Amis said, was “a daily unreality, a daily insult.” We were sitting across from each other in a Brooklyn bar as I...
The Literary Life of Elliot Page
Pageboy, Elliot Page’s long-awaited memoir, gives a fragmented but close-up perspective of Page’s life and experiences growing up as someone who has always known that he...
The Best New Book Releases Out June 13, 2023
Today is a good day. The apparent apocalypse seems to have retreated from the East Coast, and there are new books. I live. And the new...
Will AI Threaten Publishing Jobs?
The launch of ChatGPT in the fourth quarter of 2022 shook up many industries, including publishing. In fact, plenty of doomsaying articles floated the idea that...
A Guide to Knowing Whether You’re the Detective or the Sidekick in a Mystery Novel
We can’t all be Auguste Dupins or Miss Marples. If we were to appear in our very own mystery novel, some of us would undoubtedly be...
The Strange and Amazing Iron Circus Comics
Black-owned Chicago-based alternative comics publisher Iron Circus Comics is having quite the year. In the past 12 months, the publishing house earned two Eisner awards for...
Mermaid Tails: 9 Enchanting Books Like The Little Mermaid
I have been a fan of The Little Mermaid since my early childhood days of demanding rewatches of our well-loved VHS cassette tape of Disney’s The...
A Toast to Books About Queer Bars
Queer bars are the site of some of my most treasured memories. They’re also one of my favorite settings for books. Whether it’s a true story...
Our Top 10 Best Poetry Books of All Time
Poetry is a timeless art that captures the beauty of language, incorporates the art of storytelling, and impacts us on an emotional level. But with so...
The William Trevor Reader: “Family Sins”
Fingers crossed, with 10 stories remaining, “Family Sins” will be the last of a type of first-person story in The Collected. We have already encountered this...
