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“I decided to upend my very stable life”: Allison T. Butler on her career as an author and lecturer

“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 would memorize paragraphs in my head”: Sara Nović on her career as an author and instructor

“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’ve realized I need chaos and randomness”: Anna Lena Feunekes on her career as an illustrator and author

“I’ve realized I need chaos and randomness”: Anna Lena Feunekes on her career as an illustrator and author April 9, 2026 I still remember how captivated I was by the richness of Anna Lena’s illustration style the first time I encountered her work. In ways that will come as no surprise to anyone who’s familiar with her multi-hyphenate status—e.g., as an illustrator, who is publishing books, who has been trained as a designer—she brings such… Read More »“I’ve realized I need chaos and randomness”: Anna Lena Feunekes on her career as an illustrator and author

“I knew I wanted to build my life around that”: Melissa Febos on her career as a writer and professor

“I knew I wanted to build my life around that”: Melissa Febos on her career as a writer and professor March 12, 2026 Few writers possess the ability to command an avid readership for their every new release. Melissa is one of them. All five of her books have been both critically acclaimed and impossible to put down. If you’ve been a longtime reader of her work, you’ll know that there’s just something about her… Read More »“I knew I wanted to build my life around that”: Melissa Febos on her career as a writer and professor

“I was going to do whatever I wanted”: Stephanie Wambugu on her career as a writer and editor

“I was going to do whatever I wanted”: Stephanie Wambugu on her career as a writer and editor December 30, 2025 Editor’s note With her celebrated debut novel, Lonely Crowds—which has been hailed as both the book of the summer and a best book of 2025—Stephanie delivers a moving, Ferrante-like study on the complexities of female friendship. It’s a mark of distinction that is evident from its first pages: “When I met Maria,” her narrator… Read More »“I was going to do whatever I wanted”: Stephanie Wambugu on her career as a writer and editor