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“Heidi Montag was pioneering how reality TV could turn old news into melodrama, eroding any distance between entertainment and fact.” Jack Balderrama Morley examines the beautiful, terrible, villains of reality television. | Lit Hub TV
“It doesn’t help that by the time we figure anything out, we are already losing our minds.” Why life’s brevity is a beautiful, human thing. | Lit Hub Health
“I kissed Alice for the first time later that afternoon as she wrestled with the wringer washer in the laundry nook off the kitchen.” Read from Nancy Foley’s new novel, I Am Agatha. | Lit Hub Fiction
SUMMER CREATIVE WRITING INSTITUTE
Let Paris inspire you this summer and come join us at AUP’s Summer Creative Writing Institute. With workshops on poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, students can work deeply on issues of craft, all while enjoying the City of Light.
Ashley Bishop considers Edwin Markham’s “The Man with the Hoe”—the Gilded Age poem that became “an ideological litmus test, depending on where you stood on capital versus labor”—and wonders who will tell the story of our current Gilded Age. | Jacobin
Traci Brimhallmeets the devil: “I want to think it’s an omen, but this is the girl in me, the one who wanted to be brave enough to say Bloody Mary three times in a bathroom mirror in the dark, but just like my girl self, I don’t have the courage.” | Virginia Quarterly Review
For readers of Elizabeth Strout and Willa Cather, a masterful story collection capturing one summer’s day in the Indiana community where the beloved National Book Award Finalist Zorrie bloomed.
