Authors and critics have shared various perspectives on the creative process, craft, and literary history across multiple publications. Jung Yun addressed the risks and rewards of choosing a writing life, while Mindy Misener discussed how her background as a preacher shaped her dedication to storytelling, noting that she had to commit to a story the way a preacher commits to a text.
In memoir and collaborative projects, Josie Adams discussed the experience of co-writing a book with her father, Tony Shalhoub, which involved imitating his voice on the page. Joanna Cannon reflected on her prior work as a doctor in an emergency department and how those experiences with death remained with her years later. Fiction excerpts included selections from Sonora Jha’s novel Foreign.
Critical discussions also highlighted Laura Miller’s defense of Edgar Allan Poe, Léo Keler’s documentation of historical cahiers de doléances translated by Katie Assef, and Livia Gershon’s examination of psychiatric hospitals in relation to horror. Walker Rutter-Bowman explored the second life of Cynthia Buchanan’s novel Maiden in The Paris Review, while Annie Ernaux discussed student protests, autofiction, and her Nobel Prize in an interview with Vulture.