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An Interview with Shane Jones
Alex Higley
Road Trip: CAConrad
Ali Liebegott
Road Trip: Joan Larkin
Ali Liebegott
The 2018 Believer Book Awards
Writing and Idiocy
Aaron Shulman
On Dressing Margaret Cavendish
Danielle Dutton
Go Forth (Vol. 41)
Kristen Evans
Proposals Toward the End of Writing
Tony Tulathimutte
Our Favorite Books from 2015
We’ve compiled votes from our editors, and these thirty are the books we loved most in 2015. Ten are fiction, ten are nonfiction, and ten are reissues. As time marches ...
Parties Without Tears
Dorna Khazeni
Planting Foucault in Juárez
John Washington
GO FORTH (VOL. 40)
“I can’t imagine wanting to fence off the world of fiction into one tiny plot.”
Adrian Van Young
A Novel Without a Head
Kaya Genç
The Pleasure of Following Coincidences
Kate Zambreno
Go Forth (Vol. 39)
Hannah Withers
An Experiment in Anxiety
Andrew Leland
Speak! Ye Cold Hearted Ambitious Men
GO FORTH (VOL. 37)
Valerie Stivers
Go Forth (Vol. 36)
Brandon Hobson
Lucia Berlin: An Influence Chart Lucia Berlin died relatively unknown in 2004. A new book of selected stories, “A Manual for Cleaning Women” being published today by FSG ...
“Getting to Take on That Life Temporarily.”
Kathryn Borel
Subjects That Interest Most People
Amy Feltman
Transcript as Metaphor
Patrick Gaughan
Emily’s First Visit to Marsha’s Summer House
Ghosts on a Landscape
Karolina Waclawiak
Go Forth (Vol. 35)
Brandon Hobson
Go Forth (Vol. 34)
Alice Whitwham
Go Forth (Vol. 33)
Ann DeWitt
Stories of Self (Vol. 2)
Scott F. Parker
“THE EYE, FIRST OF ALL…”
Erik Morse
“IF YOU’RE DOING SOMETHING THAT TERRIFIES YOU, MOST LIKELY YOU’RE DOING THE RIGHT THING.”
Rachel Matlow
“I was spared the exhaustion of searching and seizing.”
“Art as a sacred event.”
Nick Ripatrazone
“I don’t do what you do.”
“The idea of art is where we get our influences.”
Noah Charney
Reading Bhanu Kapil
Reading Bhanu Kapil
Reading Bhanu Kapil
Influenced by
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A Survey of Writers on Contemporary Writers Listening to writers read and discuss their work at Newtonville Books, the bookstore my wife and I own outside Boston, I began ...
Influenced by
A Survey of Writers on Contemporary Writers Listening to writers read and discuss their work at Newtonville Books, the bookstore my wife and I own outside Boston, I began ...
Influenced by
A Survey of Writers on Contemporary Writers Listening to writers read and discuss their work atNewtonville Books, the bookstore my wife and I own outside Boston, I began to ...
Influenced by
Influenced by
A Survey of Writers on Contemporary Writers Listening to writers read and discuss their work at Newtonville Books, the bookstore my wife and I own outside Boston, I began ...
Influenced By
INFLUENCED BY
INFLUENCED BY
INFLUENCED BY
A Survey of Writers on Contemporary Writers Listening to writers read and discuss their work at Newtonville Books, the bookstore my wife and I own outside Boston, I began ...
One should not try to go over the limit
Influenced By
INFLUENCED BY
How do you win the game of personal branding?
Andrea Longini
INFLUENCED BY
A Survey of Writers on Contemporary Writers Listening to writers read and discuss their work at Newtonville Books, the bookstore my wife and I own outside Boston, I began ...
Go Forth (Vol. 32)
Jeannie Vanasco
INFLUENCED BY
SEA, STARS, SALT LAKE
INFLUENCED BY
A Survey of Writers on Contemporary Writers Listening to writers read and discuss their work at Newtonville Books, the bookstore my wife and I own outside Boston, I began ...
INFLUENCED BY
A Survey of Writers on Contemporary Writers Listening to writers read and discuss their work at Newtonville Books, the bookstore my wife and I own outside Boston, I began ...
5×5: Brian Evenson
Hayden Bennett
Multiple Identities
A Turkish Hero of Our Time
Kaya Genç
How Writers Read (Vol. 4)
Elisa Gabbert
How Writers Read (Vol. 3)
Elisa Gabbert
“I am invested in keeping present the forgotten bodies.”
Ratik Asokan
How Writers Read (Vol. 2)
Elisa Gabbert
“Words and utterance and magic and power, all tied into one centuries-old knot.”
Amy Feltman
Kaya Genç on Avi Steinberg on The Book of Mormon
Kaya Genç
How Writers Read (Vol. 1)
Elisa Gabbert
Colette’s Advice Column
“The dirt you’re getting dirty in.”
“Something to be shared.”
Colette’s Advice Column
Life That Is This
Madeleine Watts
“The naming is a political act, the writing is a political act, a revolt against disappearance.”
Noah Charney
Colette’s Advice Column
“We don’t realize what we’re walking on half the time.”
David Leo Rice
An Interview with Karen Russel
“IT WILL KILL YOU, AND IT NEVER KNEW YOUR NAME.” An Interview with Karen Russell About Her Syllabus This is part of a series of conversations with writers who teach, where ...
DISCUSS RULES BEFOREHAND
You Should Really Be Reading This…
Noah Charney
An Interview with David Bezmozgis
Ratik Asokan
Go Forth (Vol. 31)
Nelly Reifler
Various Paradigms
Douglas A. Martin
“Despair strikes me as eminently reasonable and boring.”
Go Forth (Vol. 30)
Brandon Hobson
“ALL OF THESE THINGS ARE POETRY.”
Stephanie Palumbo
Developing the Beauty of the Riddle: Rick Moody Interviews David Ryan
Rick Moody
AWP 2014 Journals
Go Forth (Vol. 29)
Brandon Hobson
“IT’S THE STORY YOU ENTER, NOT THE CHARACTER.” An Interview with Aimee Bender About Her Syllabus This is part of a series of conversations with writers ...
The Place Makes Everyone a Gambler: Alice Bolin on Joan Didion and Los Angeles
Alice Bolin
Mean Mr. Custer
Fritz Huber
5×5: Brian Evenson
Brian Conn
[gallery] Dear Beloved Believer Reader: We are writing to you with an announcement of a brand new Believer endeavor! This September, classified advertisements are making a ...
5X5: BRIAN EVENSON
“Connected but facing out at life alone, and separated in that aloneness.”
Go Forth (Vol. 28)
Drawing by Josephine Demme Fiction Seminar Ben Marcus Technologies of Heartbreak This seminar will examine how emotion is attempted and transmitted in fiction, the ...
“A reading list is not my trophy case.” An Interview with Ben Marcus About His Syllabus
Drawing by Jos Demme This is the first in a series of conversations with writers who teach, where we discuss how they develop an idea for a course, generate a syllabus, and ...
Colin Winnette in Conversation with Victoria Chang
The Groove of Routine
The Groove of Routine
The Groove of Routine
Game of Unknowns
“I was a child psychologist’s wet dream.”
Go Forth (Vol. 25)
An Invitation to Join the Human Race
Adıvar: The Name Behind the Crater
“Something Just Beyond Words”
“I would like to live in that year forever.”
Reincarnation in Exile
The Immortal Horizon
A Review of Philip Marlowe
New York: Tonight at 7pm, the New York Review of Books is hosting an appreciation for William Gass’s On Being Blue with Joshua Cohen, Stefanie Sobelle, Albert Mobilio, ...
“I Saw the Devil with His Needlework” Exclusive from Tin House
“How To Catch A Fly In A Dark Room”
On Being Blue
“Stick your name on it and let it be read.”
The Soundproof Room: An Exclusive Essay from Tin House Magazine
[gallery] Poets’ Bookshelves. An ongoing series of posts documenting some of the books collected by our favorite poets. This week: Michael Robbins, author of Alien vs. ...
The Case of S., or, the Metatextual Pleasure of Ergodic Works
BELIEVER AND TIN HOUSE—DUAL SUBSCRIPTION DEAL $65 gets you a year’s subscription to both The Believer and our beloved West Coast literary sibling, Tin House. Think about ...
Go Forth (Vol. 22)
Food Faces: Jesse Ball
STRAND + THE BELIEVER: A NIGHT OF CONFIDENCE… On Thursday, March 6th, Strand Books + The Believer will host an evening with music icon Laurie Anderson & writer and ...
It’s just disappeared, the whole culture of reading
The Pressure Cooker as Transcendence
Two Years Ago I Was Asked to Teach in an MFA
Two years ago I was asked to teach in an MFA program. The offer was immediately rescinded when I told the college I didn’t have an MFA. Still, I started jotting down books I ...
[gallery] Poets’ Bookshelves. An ongoing series of posts documenting some of the books collected by our favorite poets. This week: Dorothea Lasky, most recently the author ...
Mortify Your Curiosity: More with Anne Enright
An Interview with Anne Enright
This Black Ribbon
More of Rebecca Fishow’s notes from Insights on Writing with George Saunders. See the others
[gallery] Poets’ Bookshelves. An ongoing series of posts documenting some of the books collected by our favorite poets. This week: Eileen Myles’s annotated road ...
[gallery] Poets’ Bookshelves. An ongoing series of posts documenting some of the books collected by our favorite poets. This week: Noah Eli Gordon, most recently the author of ...
*This promotion has ended, but all new subscriptions and subscription renewals will continue to receive Judy Blume and Lena Dunham in Conversation through the end of the ...
Some Instructions
[gallery] Poets’ Bookshelves. An ongoing series of posts documenting some of the books collected by our favorite poets. This week: Troy Jollimore. His most recent collection ...
The Reader Does Not Give a Shit About You
[gallery] Insights on Writing with George Saunders In his semester-long class, George Saunders teaches a number of the great classic Russian short story writers. Tolstoy, ...
“My discoveries weren’t any more extensive or alarming than most people’s. I just chose to look.”
An Interview with Illustrator Matt Kish
Hackable Book References and the Madwomen in Our Attics
[gallery] Poets’ Bookshelves. An ongoing series of posts documenting some of the books collected by our favorite poets. This week: Norman Dubie, most recently the author ...
True Lovers are as Rare as True Rebels
The Sharing Experiment: Brooklyn’s Mellow Pages Library and Reading Room
[gallery] Poets’ Bookshelves. An ongoing series of posts documenting some of the books collected by our favorite poets. This week: Victoria Chang, most recently the author of ...
An Interview with Davy Rothbart
Bathroom Libraries: In which people talk about the book or books currently in their bathroom
[gallery] Poets’ Bookshelves. An ongoing series of posts documenting some of the books collected by our favorite poets. This week: Kazim Ali, most recently the author of Sky ...
Go Forth (Vol. 16)
“We don’t have to own all the marbles.”
IF HE HOLLERS LET HIM GO
The October issue has arrived! Featuring essays on Dave Chapelle’s return to Ohio, St. Louis in 1875, the films of Oscar Michaeux, interviews with Michael Jackson ...
[gallery] Poets’ Bookshelves. An ongoing series of posts documenting some of the books collected by our favorite poets. This week: Amy Gerstler, author of Dearest ...
William Gass painted on by Philip Guston, 1969. THE BELIEVER: I read an interview you did in 1979 in which you made a compelling comment about the split between literature ...