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Apr 29, 2026
Let’s imagine that you’re an aspiring writer from Lincoln, Nebraska.
You move to New York and publish two well-received novels in your twenties. You work a few years on...
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Apr 6, 2026
Back in the year 1998, there was a thirteen-year-old boy who loved to read. This boy lived in Washington, DC, and every week he would get armfuls of books from the library. He mostly...
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Apr 1, 2026
To research my New Yorker story piece, I had to read a lot of literary biographies.
Most of these biographies are weighty tomes like Blake Bailey’s Cheever or Matt...
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Mar 11, 2026
I spent the month of February re-reading Les Miserables.
This novel is 1,500 pages long. It’s basically the same story as the musical, Les Miserables, which was one...
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Jan 28, 2026
Two months ago, I read a seven-hundred-page collection of short stories by John Cheever. But somehow that wasn’t enough. I went on to read seven-hundred-page retrospective...
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Jan 14, 2026
I have a bias against cool New York-based magazines. I generally associate them with chic radical politics and meaningless academic jargon.
But The Whitney Review of New...
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Jan 7, 2026
A Little Life is one of literature’s greatest traps.
For the first hundred pages, this novel cozily describes a group of four college friends and their petty tribulations...
Apr 29, 2026Let’s imagine that you’re an aspiring writer from Lincoln, Nebraska. You move to New York and publish two well-received novels in your twenties. You work a few years on...
Apr 6, 2026Back in the year 1998, there was a thirteen-year-old boy who loved to read. This boy lived in Washington, DC, and every week he would get armfuls of books from the library. He mostly...
Apr 1, 2026To research my New Yorker story piece, I had to read a lot of literary biographies. Most of these biographies are weighty tomes like Blake Bailey’s Cheever or Matt...
Mar 11, 2026I spent the month of February re-reading Les Miserables. This novel is 1,500 pages long. It’s basically the same story as the musical, Les Miserables, which was one...
Jan 14, 2026I have a bias against cool New York-based magazines. I generally associate them with chic radical politics and meaningless academic jargon. But The Whitney Review of New...
Jan 7, 2026A Little Life is one of literature’s greatest traps. For the first hundred pages, this novel cozily describes a group of four college friends and their petty tribulations...