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Steven W. Thrasherremembers writer, advocate, and friend Alice Wong: “Alice wanted everyone to feel good and sexy and happy in their bodies—not just despite their differing aspects of ability, disability, race, gender, fatness, thinness, and size, but because of them.” | Lit HubBiography
How cartographersliterally put fake towns on the map: “Paper towns are like background extras in movies—if you notice they’re there, they’re not doing their job properly.” | Lit HubHumor
“To write is to transport yourself to another world, to step into the lives of others, but also to connect yourself to those lives...” Frode Grytten onbecoming a writer and growing up in Norway. | Lit HubMemoir
“I had been the assistant to the director for less than a year. The important qualification for the job was to have no fear of water. And I did not.” Read “The Fellow” fromJoy Williams’s new collection,The Pelican Child. | Lit HubFiction
Cynthia Zarin traces rising fascism throughVirginia Woolf’s diary entries: “A book read in a happy fog is one thing; the same pages when the world has turned to ash can be another.” | Los Angeles Review of Books
In Scanty Plot of Ground, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon presents his selection of some of the greatest sonnets ever written, with beloved classics alongside hidden gems and standout contemporary examples in a gorgeous hardcover perfect for gifting.
