Houghton had its launch meeting for my new novel, The Queen of the Night. I think it went well.

I have a new essay over at The Awl, 21 Lies Writers Tell Themselves.

I am happy to report back after a long silence with some news. I’m grateful to my editors at The Morning News for nominating me for the new Best American [...]

Two essays appeared this summer, at The Morning News and The LA Review of Books. Both began as blog posts here and had to, per the rules of this blog [...]

From the memoirs of Cora Pearl, one of the most famous courtesans of 2nd Empire France. Her memoirs are more interesting than most of what you can read about her. [...]

The other night I described this method to my friend Mike Albo and he said, “You jerk! Why didn’t you tell me about this ten years ago?”* So, I’m telling [...]

The New York Times Magazine asked me and several other writers and critics–Maud Newton, Laila Lalami, Sam Anderson, Macy Halsford, John Williams, Garth Risk Hallberg–who we would have picked for [...]

This Tuesday, April 10th, 7PM, at KGB Bar here in New York, I’ll be reading with my good friend Maud Newton. Maud is one of my very favorite people ever. [...]

The Million Writers Award has championed writing published online long before it was possible to nominate work published online for the Pushcart, Best American and O. Henry. Nominations are open [...]

Is it easier to search the digital edition? Yes, for the one thing you are there to find. But to find only the thing you are looking for transforms the [...]