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My love story with fairy tales—and with myths, their sometimes cousins, sometimes siblings, sometimes one and the same (depending on who you ask, and quite possibly the weather)—is long and convoluted.

On the Complexities of Navigating Indigenous Life in a Relentlessly Modern World

A professor once assigned me to select and watch over a small plot of land in the city.

*First Draft: A Dialogue of Writing* is a weekly show featuring in-depth interviews with fiction, nonfiction, essay writers, and poets, highlighting the voices of writers as they discuss their work, their craft, and the literary arts.

*Memoir Nation: Weekly Inspiration for Writers* is an extension of the Memoir Nation community hosted by Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner, two friends and colleagues who bring a community-minded sensibility to the writing journey.

In 1983, Telluride Film Festival co-founder Tom Luddy took Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky on a road trip.

I am 11 years old in Brooklyn, sitting in my classroom—the dark one on the first floor—with a group of classmates who have clashed all year long.

The first time I visited Green River Cemetery in East Hampton, New York, I had already read Ann Rower’s wonderful book *Lee and Elaine*.

I was two kinds of basketball player as a kid, the one who messed around on the hoop in his backyard, sometimes with a few nerdy friends, and then the other kid, who dreaded practice every day after school and rode the bench on Friday ni...

Wayne Koestenbaum’s new novel, *My Lover, the Rabbi,* is out now from FSG, so we asked him a few questions about writing, reading, and whatever else was on his mind.

*Memoir Nation: Weekly Inspiration for Writers* is an extension of the Memoir Nation community hosted by Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner, two friends and colleagues who bring a community-minded sensibility to the writing journey.

*Cecilia*—that is, Frances Burney’s magnificent second novel—is breaking my heart.

I was first drawn to Barbara Pym for her idiosyncrasies, fancying the idea of reading about jumble sales, pale curates, and squabbles over floral arrangements on church altars.

When my mother died of cancer in 2023, the grief turned my mind into a speculative machine.

*First Draft: A Dialogue of Writing* is a weekly show featuring in-depth interviews with fiction, nonfiction, essay writers, and poets, highlighting the voices of writers as they discuss their work, their craft, and the literary arts.