The debut issue of Candor magazine is like a Sassy for the intellectual set, rife with wit (Emily Gould and Merisa Meltzer discuss Away We Go), intelligence (writer mother Rachel Zucker and woman writer Sarah Manguso speak candidly about identity, motherhood, women’s prejudices and writing), and women’s rights (Atossa Abrahamian considers the rhetoric of the rape victim).
This Isn’t Your Mother’s DoubleX
The Fleshy School
It looks like it's a poetry kind of morning. Spring is on its way, and what better way to celebrate than with Dante Gabriel Rossetti's "The Sun's Shame," a poem of death and desire ... and also sunshine: "All soulless now, yet merry with the Spring!"
Cheating and a Happy Marriage
In The Secret Lives of Wives, more than two hundred women reveal to Iris Krasnow how they keep their relationships together, from separate vacations to "boyfriend with boundaries."
Why Publishers Matter
A memo leaked from within Hachette Book Group can be read as a publisher's manifesto, or an overview of why publishers and editors are still relevant. Maybe we can incorporate this into Edan's reasons not to self-publish this year.
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In Which Samuel Beckett Didn’t Intend To Be A Writer
"He was a great exploiter." From This Recording, Samuel Beckett's recollections of James Joyce, in his own words.
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Dial G
“Genius” is a loaded term. Its application usually says more about the person making the judgment than it does about the genius in question. In The Guardian, Sophie Hannah argues that the term isn’t used enough to describe one writer in particular: Agatha Christie. You could also read Daniel Friedman on the terrible secret of all crime fiction.
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