When you work at home, fellow alums, discipline is the supreme virtue. Suicidal self-loathing lurks behind every coffee break. Activities must be exp….

Dept. of Speculation is gorgeous, funny, a profound and profoundly moving work of art. Jenny Offill is a master of form and feeling, and she gets lif….

Shudder, in fact, is not quite the word for the feeling. Feeling is not quite the word for the feeling. How's bathing at knifepoint in the phlegm of ….

Wesley Stace has always been the only genuinely gifted fiction writer who also happens to be a rock star, but Wonderkid is the book he was born to wr….

I knew I was in the vicinity of a serious lesson, if not about how to live life, then at least how to put some poetry into your craven retreat from i….

There is nothing quite like the controlled burn of Eugene Marten’s prose. Waste is an exhilarating and unnerving piece of fiction..

One of my big revelations was that nobody cares whether you write your novel or not. They want you to be happy. Your parents want you to have health ….

Atticus Lish is a true original and this is a tremendous book, relentless, moving, written in prose of marvelous integrity. Now that America and the ….

The translator has to be a good writer. The translator has to hear music too. And it might not be exactly your music because the translator needs to ….

Write what you know. Write what you don't know. But most of all, write what you'd rather not know..

I'd become one of those mistakes you sometimes find in an office, a not unpleasant but mostly unproductive presence bobbing along on the energy tides….

When a translator translates my book, it is no longer just my book. It is the translator's book, too. So the book in another language is almost the w….

Yes, we could solve for why, but we could also eat another slice of coconut cake..

I bought an energy bar, and as I ate it a great weariness came over me..

Stuff me in a tutu and let's screen experimental videos all day..

Art is an artifice that you try to make seem natural..

This country was built on the backs of dudes who drank on buses. What we do honors them..

Everything's weird if you stare at it..

I felt as though I were snorting cocaine, or rappelling down a cliffside, or cliffsurfing off a cliff of pure cocaine..

I'm a citizen of the republic of empathy..

No emotion or insight is too small to inflict on the world. Let it all fly. Don't let it eat you from the inside..