“I continue to be surprised”: Téa Obreht on her career as a writer August 26, 2026 Few writers have entered our cultural consciousness with Téa’s velocity. In a single year, for her debut novel, she simultaneously claimed the Women’s Prize for Fiction as its youngest-ever recipient and ranked as a finalist for the National Book Award. If you’ve read her work, it will be easy to understand why. I was delighted, when we spoke, to… Read More »“I continue to be surprised”: Téa Obreht on her career as a writer

“I’m someone who thinks in seasons”: Stefanie O’Connell on her career as a writer August 12, 2026

“I set out to define my own values”: Helen Betya Rubinstein on her career as an author and writing coach July 29, 2026 Helen’s forthcoming book Feels Like Trouble emerges from two decades spent working as a professor, writing coach, and author. In it, she examines how standards of literary excellence can reinforce existing hierarchies of power. What exactly, in other words, is being privileged through the ideals of ‘good writing,’ and whose values does… Read More »“I set out to define my own values”: Helen Betya Rubinstein on her career as an author and writing coach

“I wake up excited”: Sophie Grégoire Trudeau on her career as an author and mental health advocate July 15, 2026

“I knew I would need to be my own safety net”: Alissa Wilkinson on her career as a movie critic and author July 2, 2026 It’s often challenging, when writing about larger-than-life figures, to offer an unexplored take on their history due to the volumes upon volumes that have already been written about them. Yet with her latest book, Alissa has accomplished precisely that with her fresh perspective on the life and work of Joan… Read More »“I knew I would need to be my own safety net”: Alissa Wilkinson on her career as a movie critic and author

“I didn’t figure it out till I was 40”: Candice Wuehle on her career as a novelist and cultural critic June 18, 2026

“I decided to upend my very stable life”: Allison T. Butler on her career as an author and lecturer June 4, 2026 With her latest book, Allison offers a rigorously researched and highly readable account of how women throughout history have been simultaneously centered and yet silenced in pop culture. She revisits the distorted narratives that took shape around the lives of women like Britney Spears, Anita Hill, and Sinead O’Connor to highlight the ways… Read More »“I decided to upend my very stable life”: Allison T. Butler on her career as an author and lecturer

“I never intended to publish it”: Claire Jia on her career as a novelist and screenwriter May 21, 2026

“I would memorize paragraphs in my head”: Sara Nović on her career as an author and instructor May 7, 2026 “My hearing loss was not cinematic—no hit to the head rendered my world silent. Mine was slow, uneven, deceptive as a switchback trail. One day, I lost the wind. Then the drip of a leaky faucet. Then whispers.” So begins Sara’s latest book, the memoir Mother Tongue, in which she retraces her path out of… Read More »“I would memorize paragraphs in my head”: Sara Nović on her career as an author and instructor

“ I think whole is always better than good”: Savala Nolan on her career as an essayist and professor April 23, 2026