Jon Ronson talks to The Millions about his new book, Lost at Sea

“[T]he biggest theme [in Lost at Sea], for me anyway, is how everybody in the book, including me, feel in some way as if they’re lost at sea, and are grasping for something to get them through. And the thing that they often grasp for is something that’s kind of irrational, makes no sense, is ridiculous…. And [the book] becomes almost a celebration of irrationality as a human character trait to be cherished.” Read more...

Julie Klam, author of Friendkeeping, interviews herself for The Nervous Breakdown

Julie Klam interviews herself about the most exciting parts of her life and her new memoir, Friendkeeping. Click here to check out the interview!

Meghan O’Rourke, author of The Long Goodbye, writes about the after-effects of Hurricane Sandy for The New Yorker blog

Meghan O’Rourke writes about visiting Brooklyn Bridge Park and downtown Manhattan after the storm. “The jewel-like cable lights on the Brooklyn Bridge (I used to pretend they were a river nymph’s necklace when I was dreamy child), went dark halfway across. The image was startling—a city divided, those who had power and those who didn’t. Standing there I thought of the lines from Hart Crane’s paean to New York City ‘To Brooklyn Bridge’: Under thy shadow by the piers I waited;/Only in darkness is thy shadow clear./The City’s fiery parcels all undone, /Already snow submerges an iron year.” To read the full piece, click here.

Julie Klam talks about her new memoir, Friendkeeping, with NPR’s Linda Holmes

“I realized as I read it that I wasn't responding only to the book itself — which covers territory like secrets, crisis management, and how much advice to give your friends — but to the mere fact that it was written. It was taking seriously something, namely adult friendships, that often turns into the wallpaper of cultural life: something that's there, and that's lovely, and that ideally you don't have to think about, but not something that you would delve into deeply. Not something you attend to specifically.” To read the full piece, click here.

Nami Mun, author of Miles from Nowhere, talks to the Chicago Tribune about her volunteer work at the National Runaway Switchboard and winning the 21st Century Award for her writing

Nami Mun, author of the novel Miles from Nowhere, talks about being a teenage runaway, her writing, and the National Runaway Switchboard, a national crisis hot line for at-risk youth, where she volunteers. To read the interview, click here.

Catherine Chung, author of the novel Forgotten Country, writes about being a “Brooklyn writer” living in Manhattan for The New York Times

Catherine Chung writes about “novel neighborhoods” for the Townies section of The New York Times. To read her essay, click here. 

Julie Klam, author of the forthcoming memoir Friendkeeping, Discusses Dog Books with Susan Orlean in The New York Times Book Review

Susan Orlean and Julie Klam talk about the joys and pitfalls of writing dog books, whether to allow dogs into your book tour readings, and why even ugly dogs can be cute, in an interview for the New York Times Book Review. Click here to read more!

Rosie Schaap, author of the forthcoming memoir Drinking with Men, writes about Manhattans in the New York Times Magazine

Rosie Schaap writes movingly about her late husband's favorite cocktail, a Manhattan, in her Drink column for the New York Times Magazine. To read the essay, click here.

Read an excerpt of Hanna Rosin’s highly anticipated THE END OF MEN in the New York Times Magazine

“As the usual path to the middle class disappears, what’s emerging in its place is a nascent middle-class matriarchy, in which women … pay the mortgage and the cable bills while the men try to find their place.”  More… 

Junot Díaz talks to New York Magazine

A conversation the interviewer describes as “an advanced literary seminar taught by a bilingual stand-up comedian working very blue.”  More…