The Second Novel
The journey to and from a second novel can be more fraught than writing and publishing a first. The anticipation of it being measured against... Read More
Intelligence and Artifice: How will A.I. Change Literature?
In late November of 2022, the company OpenAI released its revolutionary ChatGPT technology, a free artificial-intelligence chatbot, to the world. Since then, op-ed sections, social... Read More
Second Acts: Resolution & Irresolution after Memoir
Writing a memoir typically requires condensing the messiness and nonlinearity of a life into a narrative structure, with a beginning, middle, and end. And while... Read More
Indie Lit Fair
Join us for the eighth annual Indie Lit Fair, co-presented by the PEN World Voices Festival and the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP).This... Read More
Yellowface: R.F. Kuang in Conversation with Roxane Gay
Both award-winning and bestselling authors R.F. Kuang (Babel, The Poppy War) and Roxane Gay (Bad Feminist, Hunger) write probing social commentary on the intersections of... Read More
Matters of Offense: Ayad Akhtar & Eboo Patel
From the literary world to college campuses the relationships between art, identity, appropriation, and free speech are hotly contested. Increasingly the value of freedom of... Read More
Ottessa Moshfegh Presents: Why Write?
Beyond the publishing industry’s tireless work catering toward a market in flux, the landscape of culture, social politics, and online discourse shifts faster than novelists... Read More