The documentary, streaming on Amazon Prime Video, features Blume narrating the milestones of her life and career, along with interviews of her famous fans.
Category: Books and Literature
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Rita Dove and the Younger Poet Who ‘Electrified’ Her
Rita Dove taught Safiya Sinclair that “it’s OK to say a thing plainly.”
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A Lifelong Writing Mentorship That Started With a Story
Jeanette Winterson got a police escort so she could make it to Eleanor Shearer’s birth. What’s followed has been years of advice about building a creative life.
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What Unites the Writers Sigrid Nunez and Weike Wang
What began as a mentor-mentee relationship between the writers has become more “equal” and “relaxed.”
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A Fashion Designer and a Writer on Unlikely Allegiances
In reading Raven Leilani’s novel, Ulla Johnson recognized a commonality in their respective crafts. Leilani did, too.
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How Sybil Lamb Helped Imogen Binnie Shape Her Creative Identity
The “Nevada” writer came across Sybil Lamb’s illustrations two decades ago and thought, “Someone out there is doing this thing that I don’t even know how to articulate.”
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Why Madhur Jaffrey and Michelle Zauner ‘Fell Toward Each Other’
Throughout their careers, neither have followed a single path.
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Margaret Atwood and Mona Awad on Writing Outside the Lines
The authors met in person for the first time during their shoot for T’s Culture issue. “The photographer had to tell us to stop talking.”
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A Dancer’s Life: Chita Rivera on Working Hard and Learning From the Best
A new memoir traces the three-time Tony Award winner’s life and career working with Balanchine, Robbins and Fosse.
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Book Review: ‘Honey, Baby, Mine,’ by Laura Dern and Diane Ladd
Laura Dern and her mother, Diane Ladd, both made careers in the movies. In “Honey, Baby, Mine,” they drop names, rehash arguments and lean on each other.
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Des Linden Keeps Choosing to Run
In her new memoir, the 2018 Boston Marathon champion writes about her battles with illness and injury, and the meaning of “badassery.”
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Read Your Way Through Kerala
A strip of lush land at the tip of India where spices grow wild, Kerala has long drawn the gaze of outsiders. Here’s Abraham Verghese’s guide to its literature, which nods at these influences but is very much its own.