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He Liked Having Enemies The contested legacy of D. H. Lawrence Daphne Merkin BookForum Sept/Oct/Nov 2021 Burning Man: The Trials of D. H. Lawrence by frances wilson. new york: farrar, straus and giroux. 512 pages. $35. HAS THERE EVER BEEN A WRITER more reviled or more admired than D. H. Lawrence? (His full name was David Herbert Lawrence but he had begun using the initials “DHL” or “D. H. Lawren..

An Adult Taste Kang Young-sook Translated by Janet Hong Granta Magazine About once every week, Seungshin and Ho-yeon had lunch together. Ho-yeon was a frail-looking man. Seungshin didn’t have children, but Ho-yeon, on the other hand, had two, and his face brightened considerably whenever he spoke of them. He was mostly discreet, but Seungshin didn’t mind when he brought up his kids, for she had ..

Essays 100 Things About Writing a Novel What to do—and when to do it Alexander Chee The Yale Review Timothy K. Hamilton / Creative Commons 1. Sometimes music is needed. 2. Sometimes silence. 3. A novel, like all written things, is a piece of music, the language demanding you make a sound as you read it. Writing one, then, is like remembering a song you’ve never heard before. 4. I have written no..

Interviews “The Wellspring That Relieves My Thirst”: Kim Bi on Writing Queer Literature By Victoria Caudle Translated By Victoria Caudle Words Without Borders Published Aug 9, 2021 Kim Bi. Photo © Kim Se-woon. Kim Bi is one of South Korea's most prominent queer writers. She has published eight books, though only two of her stories, "Tree of Kisses" and "Transgender Basketball Club," have been tr..

By Jonathan Lee New York Times June 13, 2021 In an interview in 2012, Hilary Mantel, the author of the “Wolf Hall” trilogy, was asked if she felt any trepidation writing about the Tudors. “Much historical fiction that centers on real people has always been deficient in information, lacking in craft and empty in affect,” she replied. Then she added, with a hint of Cromwellian confidence: “I thoug..

What We Lose When Literary Criticism Ends With mainstream media uninterested in books coverage that doesn’t get clicks, writers and readers are being left out in the cold Steven BeattieSteven Beattie The Warlrus May 21, 2021 The Walrus/iStock/Wikimedia Commons In his 1998 prose collection, Ripostes, Philip Marchand lays out the operative conditions for a working critic: “You have to know your mi..

Novels and Novellas and Tomes, Oh My! The long and short of novel lengths Lincoln Michel April 16, 2021 We like to pretend that art is art. That an author writes what they are inspired to write, with no concern but the voice of the muse. This is a useful fiction. It is good for writers to focus on the art when writing and worry about the business side later. But it is a fiction. Writers are awar..

Revealing the hidden Hemingway Two new collections of letters and early writing bring a different Hemingway into focus. ALEXANDER ADAMS Spiked 13th April 2021 Share In the cycle of a fiction writer, there is a pattern: youthful works, reviews/articles and fiction during the author’s lifetime; then posthumously comes unpublished fiction, journals, collected articles and – finally – letters. Lette..

On “getting” poetry On deriving pleasure from poetry. by Adam Kirsch & James Panero The New Criterion April 2021 A subscriber to this magazine writes with a problem: “Although I have advanced university degrees, I have never ‘gotten’ poetry.” He’s not alone; I hear the same thing regularly from people who love to read novels and biographies, who are undaunted by string quartets and abstract pain..

The Emily Dickinson Collection Houghton Library's Emily Dickinson Collection preserves more than 1,000 autograph poems and some 300 letters. O.A. BULLARD, ARTIST. THE DICKINSON CHILDREN. (EMILY ON THE LEFT). OIL ON CANVAS, CA. 1840. GIFT, GILBERT H. MONTAGUE, 1950. Houghton Library OVERVIEW AND HISTORY The Houghton Library is known for its holdings of papers of 19th-century American writers, and..