Kit Steinkellner is a playwright, screenwriter, and creative writing teacher. She also writes about books and reading at Books Are My Boyfriends. Follow her onTwitter: @BooksAreMyBFs
I can’t believe Gary Shteyngart resigned from book blurbing and I didn’t know about it until, like, just now. I ...
As long as I can remember, we had a copy of Katherine Dunn’s Geek Love in our family library. I remember ...
I’ve basically hated the endings of the last few novels I’ve read, and I am cranky about it. Like being ...
(I will try my best not to spoiler up this post [I’m not dumb, I know when you’re writing about ...
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I am so excited for the Eleanor & Park movie. I’m not just excited to see it (I ate the ...
I have SO MANY THOUGHTS. They’re mostly about Shailene Woodley’s ponytail, but they’re also about the casting, book-to-film-adaptation, production design, ...
[buyandread isbn=”0865478139″ linkshare=”https://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/ebook/mfa-vs-nyc”] When I first heard about MFA vs NYC: The Two Cultures of American Fiction, I thought to ...
Roxane Gay is pro-unlikable characters. As is Claire Messud, as is Meg Wolitzer. Jennifer Weiner is pro-likable characters. So many, many people ...
I recently read Carla Blumenkranz’s “Seduce the Whole World: Gordon Lish’s Workshop,” an essay that appeared in The New Yorker and ...