On an evening late last month, the multifaceted artist Miranda July celebrated a milestone years in the making. Her second novel, All Fours, will be published next spring, and to celebrate, she…
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“I Just Kept Writing”: Sigrid Nunez on Crafting Her New Novel During “Extraordinary Upheaval”
Sigrid Nunez’s The Vulnerables could be hastily described as a pandemic novel. Yes, it does take place in Manhattan during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet unlike Elizabeth Strout’s Lucy…
Paul McCartney on Writing “Day Tripper”
Paul McCartney on Writing “Day Tripper”
“I Have Remorse, but Not Regret”: Jada Pinkett Smith Reflects on Memoir Writing and Some Very Recent History
Good celebrities understand how to turn their personal lives into a public point of fascination, but great celebrities know how to make a living from it. (Hey, Taylor.) Our current era of…
C Pam Zhang on Relishing Pleasure, Observing Billionaires, and Writing a Love Story
“That year of the pandemic, and my first book coming out during the pandemic, was one of deep disconnection from a lot of the things that used to be important to me,”…