The Matrilineal Pleasures of ‘A Life of One’s Own’
What I found in Biggs's book wasn't so much guidance, but companionship.
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James Frankie Thomas Found Himself in ‘Idlewild’
"At the time that I started writing, I hadn’t yet begun to consider that I was trans."
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Lan Samantha Chang Revisits ‘Hunger,’ 25 Years Later
"I had a piercing sense that I had completed a work encompassing everything I’d written over the seven years."
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Vauhini Vara Doesn’t Know How She Does It
"So much of the process of writing remains mysterious to me."
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Maria Bamford Has Been Having Some Weird Thoughts
"I work in show business; it’s kind of par for the course to say you’re mental."
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The Generative Joys of Bookbinding
As a book artist I’ve learned to follow inspiration wherever it comes from, to be guided by a sense of awe for words as art.
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Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize 2023 Winners
Auroura Morgan is the winner of this year's Honey and Wax Book Collecting Prize for American women book collectors aged 30 and younger.
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The Orthodoxy of Paradox
In 'The Rigor of Angels,' William Eggington posits that paradoxes are inextricable from knowledge.
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Chloe Aridjis’s Night-Sea Journey
'Dialogue with a Somnambulist' reveals a new anxiety: that enchantment, however necessary, will not be sufficient.
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The Ambitious Anachronism of ‘The Fraud’
We are to understand that a story with such disclosures could not be published in its time, but we might also feel it could not have been written then.
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The Timely Provocations of Matthew Gasda
'Dimes Square' portrays what it’s like for creatives—wherever they are—to survive in the competitive art ecosystem of today.
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Scenes from a Literary Marriage
'Wifedom' is less a biography of Eileen—or even a portrait of two halves of a marriage—than an indictment of a writer that Funder has ceased to venerate.
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Founder’s Picks: The Best of The Millions
The Millions might now best be shared in a more analog fashion, from one trusted reader to another, and it is in that spirit that I gift to you these links.
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What It Takes to Be a TikTok Poet
Surely, learning to self-promote couldn’t be harder or more demoralizing than the last decade I’d spent writing.
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The Forgotten Novelist Who Remade Egyptian Cinema
It is shocking that Ihsan Abdel Kouddous is still largely unknown outside the Arab world.
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Mark O’Connell’s Intimate Portrait of a Murderer
“It’s the most complicated relationship I’ve ever had.”
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Lawrence Wright on Larry McMurtry
McMurtry was ruddering against the idea of the great Texas myth, which glorified a way of life that was mostly stultifying and mean.
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