Lydia Millet: Dreaming on Paper
The author of “Fight No More” talks with Mark Athitakis about her new collection and what our homes say about…
Mark Athitakis
Mark Athitakis is a writer, editor, critic, and blogger whose work has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, Washington Post Book World, Chicago Sun-Times, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Washington City Paper and many other publications. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the National Book Critics Circle.
Manhattan Beach
On New York’s shipbuilding docks during World War II, one woman seizes the chance to take control of her own…
Donald Ray Pollock: “A Better Version of a Dime Novel”
The author of “The Heavenly Table” on how television and the paperback fiction of his youth have shaped his fiction.…
Fates and Furies
With cutting inventiveness, one of today’s best novelists examines a whirlwind marriage, and how to write about matrimony in the…
The Water Museum
In his first short stories in a decade, the Pulitzer Prize finalist brings his trademark magic to ambitious characters on…
Vaccines and Vampires: Eula Biss on Science, Fear, and Metaphor
The author of On Immunity explores the fear that drives “anti-vax” advocates, its causes, and its cost.
Winter Journal
A writer’s attempt to capture the life that only the body knows.
Thieves of Manhattan
An ingenious literary fraud takes an unexpected turn in this blackly comic tale.