Are editors more accessible than ever before? (For what it’s worth, we list our editors’ contact details.)
Why We Can’t Respond To Everything
For Your Weekend
Slate offers up a treatise on "the greatness of gin." (via my friend Derek, who wrote: "for your book blog; there is too little booze on it")
Rumspringa
"Could there be anything better, or worse, than Amish romance novels?" Let's find out.
To MFA or Not to MFA
The MFA rankings kerfuffle gets a contribution from Slate writer Scott Kenemore (which Roxane Gay promptly eviscerates), but this post appears to be the most level-headed assessment yet. (Last link via Hobart)
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What do Liza Minnelli, Michael Jackson, and Abu Ghraib have in common?
Picador's digital marketing team put together a playful web series for Wayne Koestenbaum's Humiliation. John Waters has called the book "the funniest, smartest, most heartbreaking yet powerful book I've read in a long time."
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“You’re a fiction writing professor.”
“You have a hard time imagining how the things you've experienced or discovered, which seem abjectly personal, could be of use to another writer. You're aware that you can follow every single rule in the book, and still write a crappy story.” The Preservationist author Justin Kramon grapples with the idea of teaching writing to college students.