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Oct 8, 2025
Every month, Emma Alpern and Jasmine Vojdani recommend new fiction and nonfiction books. You should read as many of them as possible. See their picks from last month here.
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Jul 3, 2025
What is an author without an editor? Look to Substack for your answer. You’ll find the novelist Garth Greenwell reflecting on a single paragraph from James Baldwin’s...
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May 2, 2025
Every month, Emma Alpern and Jasmine Vojdani will make new fiction and nonfiction book recommendations. This is their first batch of titles — you should read as many of them as...
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Mar 17, 2025
M.F.A. or NYC … or AI? On Tuesday, Sam Altman, the chairman of OpenAI, posted a metafictional short story generated by a new large-language model that is “good at...
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Mar 12, 2025
Divorce writing may be the toughest thing a memoirist can do other than covering a war,” writes Mary Karr in The Art of Memoir. Yet the divorce memoir — and its shy...
Oct 8, 2025Every month, Emma Alpern and Jasmine Vojdani recommend new fiction and nonfiction books. You should read as many of them as possible. See their picks from last month here.
Jul 3, 2025What is an author without an editor? Look to Substack for your answer. You’ll find the novelist Garth Greenwell reflecting on a single paragraph from James Baldwin’s...
May 2, 2025Every month, Emma Alpern and Jasmine Vojdani will make new fiction and nonfiction book recommendations. This is their first batch of titles — you should read as many of them as...
Mar 17, 2025M.F.A. or NYC … or AI? On Tuesday, Sam Altman, the chairman of OpenAI, posted a metafictional short story generated by a new large-language model that is “good at...
Mar 12, 2025Divorce writing may be the toughest thing a memoirist can do other than covering a war,” writes Mary Karr in The Art of Memoir. Yet the divorce memoir — and its shy...