Are you savvy about the business of asking The New Yorker fiction editor questions?
If you have any questions for New Yorker fiction editor Deborah Treisman, ask away. (For possible areas of inquiry, see Among the Unsavvy.)
If you have any questions for New Yorker fiction editor Deborah Treisman, ask away. (For possible areas of inquiry, see Among the Unsavvy.)
By request, and in the hopes of doing some small part to ease the struggles of great bookstores like Powell’s, here is an incomplete list of books and essays I enjoyed this year: Fiction: Richard Price’s Lush Life, Aleksandar Hemon’s The Lazarus Project, Marilynne Robinson’s Home, Claire Keegan’s Walk the Blue Fields, Julia Leigh’s Disquiet, Amara Lakhous’ Clash of Civilizations . . .
David Foster Wallace’s thesis, his one formal, systematic contribution to the world of ideas, is unpublished & remains largely unknown.
Inspired by the Depression-era Federal Writers’ Project, Weiland and Wilsey decided to create their own version of the WPA state guides.
This year I joined the Board of Directors at Girls Write Now, an amazing organization that pairs talented at-risk teen girls with mentors — authors and journalists — who meet with them regularly one-on-one and support their writing. What impresses me most is that the girls go on to college. So these mentoring relationships have the power to change the . . .