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Obituary
The marina had a proposition for him. They wanted him to leave, and they were willing to pay him to do it.
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Of Horses and Children
Aryn Kyle talks about the American West as a character, writing from a child's perspective, and her debut novel, The God of Animals
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The Younger Side of Nick Hornby
Nick Hornby, the author of High Fidelity, About a Boy, and Fever Pitch, talks about the pitfalls of contemporary literary culture, his ambition to be the male Anne Tyler, and his new novel for young adults
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Writers in Training
Edward J. Delaney discusses the country's best graduate writing programs and how to compare them
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Dark Rememberings
Shira Nayman, the author of Awake in the Dark, plumbs the secrets of World War II Germany to craft haunting present-day tales
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Reading and Writing
Novelist and critic Francine Prose talks about creativity, literary craftsmanship, and her new book, Reading Like a Writer.
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Sentence by Sentence
Short story writer Amy Hempel talks about forensics, seeing eye dogs, and her new Collected Stories
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Zadie, Take Three
The author of White Teeth and The Autograph Man talks about her new comedy of manners-cum-campus novel and the pitfalls of literary celebrity.
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The Art of the Unconscious
Joyce Carol Oates talks about modern science, the writing life, and "*BD* 11 1 86," her short story in the fiction issue
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Character Is Action
Margot Livesey talks about her new novel, Banishing Verona, and her commitment to writing literary page-turners
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Faraway Voices
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Olen Butler talks about tapping into different points of view and writing "from the place where you dream"
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Fast Times at King William's High
A talk with the author of The Rotters' Club, a darkly humorous story of coming-of-age in 1970s Birmingham, England