Writing
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StreuselkuchenThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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A story about coolness. « The phone rings. It is Jim Jarmusch, and he asks if I want to come over to his place. »
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« When I was silent… » — Interview with Sulaiman AddoniaThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Stop! I am doing what they all do: presenting writer Sulaiman Addonia as one-who-has-suffered, because he grew up as a refugee. It is a problem of genre. Suffering has become…
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Kill your darlingsThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Like plots in a garden cemetery, with lamentations, good-riddances or other epitaphs.
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How Americans edit sex out of my writingThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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What is editing? Two people who both lead a literary life — an augmented reality where the connections between existence and sentences are investigated daily — wage sensual war for the soul…
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Why we writeThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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A letter to George Orwell. « All narrative is hypnotic. Some narratives are more hypnotic than others. Because of you, we can be conscious of the kinds and the workings…
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How to write; or, how to insultThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Shoulders were slapped, fingers pointed, hearts fired up. Perhaps a little scuffle broke out after class, a boisterous wrestling over insults exchanged. Nothing to be concerned about. Acquiring knowledge was,…
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On learning to write againThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Ramallah, downtown, fifth floor. The phone rings and the caller’s number appears on the screen. It’s an unknown number. And yet a call that comes at this hour must be…
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Football is not football
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How do literary movements arise? About thirty years ago, I watched one emerge out of nothing: the subgenre of « literary » football books and magazines. Not exactly the birth…
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The ordinary jacket of today
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The ERB doesn’t stand in competition with magazines we love; it joins them, and does so in admiration. This project has made us encounter literary magazines we hadn’t read before…