A divorced single mother, she started out to write a sex guide for schoolgirls and ended up with a tale of female autonomy that became a best-selling novel.
Category: Writing and Writers
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Samm-Art Williams, Playwright, Producer and Actor, Dies at 78
He challenged racial barriers in Hollywood, was a producer of “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” and earned a Tony nomination for “Home,” a paean to his Southern roots.
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An Artist Whose Knits Are an Antidote to Loneliness
Patrick Carroll began making textiles during lockdown. Last year, several of them appeared in a JW Anderson runway show.
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What Ethan Hawke’s ‘Wildcat’ Gets Right About Flannery O’Connor
Those familiar with her menagerie of grotesques, her views of Southern society, her tortured faith and inner contradictions will get what his film is doing.
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By the Book Interview With Judi Dench
“They’re snapshots of the past: first-night gifts, holidays abroad, memories of lost friends and loved ones,” the award-winning actress says. Her latest, written with Brendan O’Hea, is “Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent.”
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With ‘All Fours,’ Miranda July Experiments in Fiction and in Life
In “All Fours,” her first novel in almost 10 years, the writer, artist and filmmaker considers freedom — sexual and otherwise.
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The Romance Novelist, His Muse and a ‘Healing’ Plot Twist
After their 2021 wedding, John Murray and Kimberlee Stevenson experienced much heartbreak. Now comes joy.
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‘Modern Love Podcast’: Emily Ratajkowski Can Take Care of Herself, But a Little Help Would Be Nice
Why the model and writer wants to blow up gender roles in dating, without chivalry having to die.
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For Maxine Hong Kingston, Age Is Just Time Going By
At 83, the novelist and professor emerita at the University of California, Berkeley, likes to “go into the new.”
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Rusty Foster Tracks Media Gossip From an Island in Maine
Rusty Foster could never live in New York. But his hit newsletter, Today in Tabs, is an enduring obsession of the city’s media class.