Rebecca and I read Atul Gawande's Being Mortal and talked about it.

Going to school full-time and raising two kids definitely involves a lot of reading, but does it make you a reader?

Last fall, Aaron tweeted something about accepting a few comics from a nine... more

With all of these other endeavors, Elizabeth's reading life has changed markedly, and she was kind enough to talk to me about it.

How do two cultural dynamos get away with never reading?

“Surely there are lonely people out there who would like to talk to me about the books they ignore.”

The Noah Cicero who answered Juliet Escoria’s questions, he is already gone and to take it farther he wasn’t even there before he answered the questions. The Noah Cicero that answered the questions was only that Noah Cicero.

There was something so sublimely satisfying about reading Laird Hunt’s Neverhome this year that... more

When I think of mumblecore, I think of Dick Tracy and pornography, low budget films, naturalistic performances, Andrew Bujalski, and pimples. We never set out to make any particular type or genre of film. We just wanted to make our film.

Founded in 1974, FC2 is one of America’s best-known ongoing literary experiments and... more

Here's the full disclosure: A few months ago, Kevin... more

Earlier this year, Tobias Carroll interviewed me and asked, “Your previous book, How to Predict the Weather, had a blurb... more

A few months back, I got the opportunity to (once again) indulge the teenage... more

let’s start with my most pressing question, one you haven’t answered IRL: WHY DID YOU TURN DOWN BRAD LISTI?

And here comes this very small girl – this fairly attractive small girl – getting real thug with me suddenly. Suddenly thug. This petite white girl getting suddenly thug. And she physically pushed me saying “Wrong fucking pile!” She was angry about this pile. 

Shane Jones’s Crystal Eaters begins as a countdown. The chapter numbers start at 40 and irregularly... more

Sean Kilpatrick: If you and I could be said to exist outside ye old literary camps, and I think our flags remain hygienic... more

Following his debut collection, Rabbit Punches (Low Fidelity Press, 2006), Neighbors of Nothing (Dzanc, 2013) marks Jason... more

Jenny Offill is the author of Last Things, and most recently, Dept. of Speculation.  In the words of Michael... more

Once I was cool, things would be easy. I’d know how to put on eyeliner correctly. I’d know what music to like. I‘d... more

But almost everyone is better to party with than writers. Like cops. Cops have way better stories than writers do.

Rauan has died before now. This revelation was not something divulged one evening when the blood had cooled and certain admissions... more

We need to leave room for bad days. But we also need to be brave enough to call people out. More understanding. Less fear. If I had a gospel, this is what I would preach—the gospel of tender rage. It’s not the same as punk rock, but it’s close.

Jim Ruland talks with J. Ryan Stradal about his new collaborative book Giving The Finger, the memoirs of Bering Sea... more

Mary Miller gets inside heads. I mean this in a non-creepy, invasive way, of course. It's a gift—some writers do... more