Category: Writing and Writers

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.
Substack Throws a Party to Celebrate Hate Reads Newsletter

The writers behind Hate Reads, a pop-up newsletter for airing grievances and pet peeves, got up on their soap boxes.
‘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.
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.”
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.
Read Your Way Through Accra

Bus stations. Traffic stops. Beaches. There’s no telling where you’ll find the next story in Accra, Ghana’s capital. Peace Adzo Medie shares some of her favorites.
In New York, Literary Events Are the Hottest Ticket in Town

These days, literary events in New York City can require tickets and be just as hard to get into as the hottest restaurant.
Salman Rushdie Is Again the Toast of Literary Manhattan

Nearly two years after he was stabbed, he was in fine form as he greeted his fellow writers at a party celebrating his candid memoir, “Knife.”
Trevor Griffiths, Marxist Writer for Stage and Screen, Dies at 88

For him, “art played a particular role in social change,” the director Mehmet Ergen said. “Everything was political.”
Kate Coleman, Who Documented the Bay Area Counterculture, Dies at 81

She wrote about politics and the patriarchy as a left-wing writer, then alienated her compatriots with exposés critical of the Black Panthers and the environmental movement.
‘Romancing the Stone’ and Its Screenwriter’s Tragic Tale

Diane Thomas was a waitress when she made headlines for the script sale of what would become a box office smash. But the Cinderella story had a sad ending.
The Dinner Party That Started the Harlem Renaissance

The Dinner Party That Started the Harlem Renaissance