Ali Sethi Pens Essay on the Flooding in Pakistan for the New York Times

In a moving essay in the New York Times Opinion section, Ali Sethi, author of The Wishmaker, describes the flooding in Pakistan and the political troubles there. More...

Dan Pink, author of Drive, shares his favorite iPhone apps

Dan Pink shares his five favorite iPhone apps on his website, danpink.com. Check it out to see what "drives" this author when it comes to what he calls the "Shootout at iPhone Corral." More...

The live Lonely Avenue interview series

Learn more about the live Lonely Avenue interview series–Ben Folds and Nick Hornby discussing their upcoming album collaboration. More...

Diary of a publication process: Rosecrans Baldwin on the birth of You Lost Me There

It’s a good day for Rosecrans Baldwin—his first novel, You Lost Me There, debuts today to critical acclaim. But he’s spent most of his summer in publication purgatory, a time of equal parts elation, head-banging and agonized waiting. In this diary for The Millions, Baldwin chronicles the endless days, anxious nights, and infinite cups of coffee (plus the occasional tequila shot) in the months leading up to the publication of You Lost Me There, now available from Riverhead. More…

The Rumpus talks to Doug Dorst about his new book The Surf Guru

The Rumpus, an online culture and arts magazine, asks Riverhead author Doug Dorst about his pre-writing rituals, his impulse to experiment with form, and his favorite piece from his new short story collection The Surf Guru. The Surf Guru was The Rumpus Book Club’s pick for July. More…

Riverhead author Dora Calott Wang, M.D., writes Huffington Post piece on health care reform

“What good is health insurance for nearly all Americans, if hospitals and physicians keep bankrupting or closing…or, if doctors and hospitals have to adopt Wall Street’s values in order to stay open?” These are the questions that Dora Calott Wang, M.D., poses in her open letter to Congress calling for measures to protect physicians from a health care system increasingly focused on profits. Wang is the author of The Kitchen Shrink, a memoir about how changes in the health care industry have affected her personal experiences as a practicing psychiatrist. More…

Sloane Crosley writes New York Times op-ed on dressing down for the heat wave

Summer’s in full swing and so is, as Sloane Crosley coins it, the “New Naked”—a seasonal movement when tolerance for bare limbs and body types reaches its peak. So, does the New Naked make us all a little more free? And can this attitude last? Crosley broaches this and more in her New York Times op-ed. 

 

How Did You Get This Number, Crosley’s acclaimed sophomore essay collection, is now out from Riverhead.

Geoff Nicholson writes New York Times piece on the rules of drinking and writing—but not at once

In this New York Times essay, Riverhead author Geoff Nicholson reviews Bernard DeVoto’s recently reissued classic The Hour: A Cocktail Manifesto, a 1940’s guide to drinking in America. Nicholson grapples with DeVoto’s remarkably severe commandments—the martini and a “slug of whiskey” are the last cocktails standing under DeVoto’s withering gaze—and wonders if more appropriate rules for drinking might, in fact, be derived from the classic rules for writing. Nicholson’s book The Lost Art of Walking, a cultural history of walking, is out in paperback from Riverhead Books. More…

BookPage interviews Rosecrans Baldwin about his “unforgettable” debut You Lost Me There

Rosecrans Baldwin talks to BookPage about his writing process and his experience researching Alzheimer’s in preparation for his debut novel You Lost Me There, forthcoming from Riverhead Books on August 12. You Lost Me There is the witty, poignant story of an Alzheimer’s researcher who, upon discovering notes written by his late wife, finds that his wife’s memory of their marriage differs drastically from his own. More…

The New York Times asks Ivan Doig about the future of the Western

Ivan Doig, author of Work Song, tells The New York Times Paper Cuts blog what he thinks is the future of the Western and gives us a sneak peek at the plot of the novel he’s currently working on. Work Song, Doig’s tenth book, is now out from Riverhead. More…