I couldn't pay attention to that, not to write the novel I wanted to write. We can't let our work be driven by the anxieties around narrative scarcity.

Deep‐south Brooklyn is the flyover country of New York City. I want to make people think again, and more deeply, about Brooklyn, all of Brooklyn.

The award-winning author of Her Body and Other Parties on writing fiction for today, the tyranny of genre, and reading outside of our comfort zones.

On the heels of her National Book Award-nominated debut novel, A Kind of Freedom, Margaret Wilkerson Sexton returns with The Revisioners, out in November.

Even the freedom to be indifferent is political. White, cis, straight men feeling unburdened enough to not talk about politics is political.

I’ve changed as a person while working on it, reflected both in how I draw and in how I write, and the nation has changed as well, which I’ve tried to acknowledge and incorporate.

I’m moving more toward subtraction than addition. Which isn’t to say that the next novel won’t be a big and baggy monster. You change all the time.

Mysteries aren’t something to be solved, but something to be embraced. We don’t need to conquer; we just need to be curious. For me, that’s where the revelation lives—in the not-knowing.

In his second memoir, Moody comes clean about his resistance to monogamy and an adult life marked by self-destructiveness and “a long list of regrets.”

I think that’s a valuable thing for critics to do—to break the boxes that people have created for art, that keep people from seeing them in a bigger vision.

One thing I love about the writing process is the way it consistently teaches me to let go of whatever I’m overly attached to, whatever I feel smug about.

In nine years wearing military uniforms I only trained to fight offensive wars. My training had nothing to do with the defense of American soil.

His debut novel ‘A Cosmology of Monsters’ is both a horror novel and a rich love story, told with tenderness and brimming with darkness.