Safe Words: The Millions Interviews Teddy Wayne
"There’s been no deficit of disaffected or disenchanted middle-age white male protagonists in American literature."
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Don Winslow’s ‘City on Fire’: Good, Old-Fashioned American Pulp
City on Fire is good, old-fashioned American pulp fiction—intelligent, well-written pulp, even—but pulp nonetheless.
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A Year in Reading: Michael Bourne
I became a Whitehead evangelist, reading all his books and pressing them on friends.
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Year in Reading: Michael Bourne
They should hand out a copy of The Half Has Never Been Told to every American kid finishing college and every newly elected member of Congress.
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Motherhood Is Life-Shattering: The Millions Interviews Kirsten Lunstrum
I write less than I might have if I hadn’t become a parent. That’s just the truth. But my fiction has deepened with the experience of raising other humans.
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The Failure Artist: Writing Bullshit, Getting Rejected, and Keeping at It
Failing to sell my book killed the part of me that still believed I was going to be a famous writer. To my astonishment, this realization set me free.
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The Queering of Nick Carraway
I suspect the queer readings of Nick Carraway say more about the way we read now than they do about Nick or The Great Gatsby.
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Bottoming Out: On Leslie Jamison’s ‘The Recovering’
That is the deeper secret to recovery, that force of constructive listening, the almost osmotic process of drawing the pain out of a human being in crisis and allowing it to settle, if only for an hour, in the body of the group.
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What Steve Bannon Saw: On Joshua Green’s ‘Devil’s Bargain’
Devil’s Bargain is the first thing I’ve read in the last year and a half that manages to make some sense of the human catastrophic weather event that is Steve Bannon.
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A Year in Reading: Michael Bourne
The novel is a perfectly realized parable of Southern manhood in a time of great cultural change.
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Publishing a Novel, as Explained to Aliens
Much of 'Under the Cover' is written in a curiously anthropological tone, as if Childress were explaining how to eat a bowl of cereal to a race of aliens who had never seen a spoon.
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When the Beasts Spoke: Thoreau and the Sound of America
One of the pleasures of Walls’s 'Thoreau' is seeing how Thoreau’s stubborn refusal to lead an ordinary life turned a bright, but otherwise rather ordinary young man into a great and original artist.
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Trouble in Paradise: The Millions Interviews Julia Fierro
Writing and reading is how I practice my humanity and to write only within my limited experience seems counterproductive, and cowardly.
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An Inside Job: Lessons from Watergate for the Trump Era
Since much of the material being leaked about alleged connections between Trump and Russia involves classified national security matters, Trump can plausibly threaten to prosecute the leakers. And, unlike Nixon, Trump has a stalwart Republican majority in both houses of Congress.
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Flying Blind: Truth, Journalism, and the Digital Age
Without that truth-seeking ecosystem of healthy small- and mid-size daily newspapers to explain national news in terms local readers can understand, Americans are left stewing in separate echo chambers, one urban, educated, and liberal, the other working-class, rural, and spoiling for a fight.
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A Year in Reading: Michael Bourne
The election of Donald Trump on a wave of white aggrievement changed the way I read A Country Road, a Tree, as I suspect it will change the way I read and understand everything in the years to come.
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