Are Ducks Evolving Backwards?
CJ Hauser on why people believe in pseudoscience and why dogs are good for writing books
Jul 18 - Deirdre Coyle
Interviews 
conversations
Ryan Chapman Wants You to Make Peace with Failure
The author of "Riots I Have Known" answers our questions about teaching writing—and remembering that it isn't supposed to be easy
Jul 17 - Electric Literature
Interviews 
All the Misery of Being in Your 20s, But with Jokes
Erin Somers's "Stay Up with Hugo Best" takes on millennial malaise and predatory men, but without sacrificing humor
Jul 16 - Erin Bartnett
Interviews 
There’s No Surgery for Loneliness
Sarah Rose Etter on "The Book of X," her surreal new novel about the traumas of living in a body
Jul 15 - Jane Dykema
Interviews 
What Happens When Emotional Labor Is Your Job?
Lila Savage, author of "Say Say Say," on the blurry interpersonal roles of a caregiver
Jul 12 - Chia-Chia Lin
Interviews 
Putting Together the Pieces of Toni Morrison
Filmmaker Timothy Greenfield-Sanders shows the author's many facets in his documentary "Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am"
Jul 11 - Katherine Cusumano
Interviews 
Meet the Most Promising New Voices of Nigerian Fiction
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie introduces five young writers you should know
Jul 11 - McSweeney’s
Interviews 
Imagining the Secret Queer Lives of Legendary Movie Stars
In her novel "Delayed Rays of a Star," Amanda Lee Koe reinvents Marlene Dietrich, Anna May Wong, and Leni Riefenstahl
Jul 10 - Emily Ding
Interviews 
This Novel About the Publishing Industry in 1987 Shows How Little Has Changed
Karen Dukess's "The Last Book Party" shows the danger of meeting your literary heroes
Jul 9 - Lily Meyer
Interviews 
