Lydia Davis
A Roundtable on Lucia Berlin, the Greatest American Writer You've Never Heard Of
We spoke with Lydia Davis, Stephen Emerson, August Kleinzahler, Dave Cullen, and Berlin's son Jeffrey about the fantastic yet underappreciated author.
Read a Story from Lucia Berlin's 'A Manual for Cleaning Women'
A story from the new collection by the great but not widely appreciated writer.
Everyone Wants a Piece of Karl Ove Knausgaard
How did a Norwegian writer who writes extremely long, introspective books about his own life become the toast of the literary world?
James Franco's Favorite Books That Defy the White Straight Male Tradition
It includes everyone from Flannery O'Connor to Tony Kushner to Lorrie Moore.
All My Favorite Narrators Are Women
I never liked dude-bro narrators like Bukowski’s or Updike’s. There’s something off-putting about voices that seem too male, or at least that flaunt their dick in a way that seems to scream, "I HAVE A SMALL ONE." There are so many female voices that...
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