Ghostwriting
On the invisible labor that makes media work.
Writers On Writers
Ishmael Reed Gets the Last Laugh
America’s most fearless satirist has seen his wildest fictions become reality.
Philip Roth: The Art of Fiction No. 84
“There has to be some pleasure in this job, and that’s it. To go around in disguise. To act a character. To pass oneself off as what one is not. To pretend.”
Typing Practice
An essay on the power of keeping a journal.
Shades of Greene
On Graham Greene, the master of “ethical ambivalence.”
In Defense of Facts
On the history of the essay and someone who had gotten it all wrong.
This Is the Story of a Happy Reader
A trip to Nashville to interview the writer Ann Patchett.
Geoff Dyer: The Art of Nonfiction No. 6
“If I’m writing a thing based on something that happened, it often starts to become fun for me when I see there’s an opportunity to make myself look even more of a jerk than I am in real life.”
From the Longform archive: George Orwell, Maya Angelou, Haruki Murakami and 25 more writers on writing.
Eat, Pray, Love, Get Rich, Write a Novel No One Expects
A profile of Elizabeth Gilbert, whose bestselling memoir may have sunk her literary career.
