Rust Hills, Esquire’s longtime fiction editor, once had an ambitious and provocative idea: capture the most influential people in writing and publishing in a single graphic. The July 1963 issue of ...

Cord Jefferson’s American Fiction, a satire of the publishing world and modern race relations, stars Jeffrey Wright as Thelonious “Monk” Ellison, an English professor and novelist frustrated by what ...

You’re reading The New Yorker’s daily newsletter, a guide to our top stories, featuring exclusive insights from our writers and editors. Sign up to receive it in your inbox. In the wake of disaster in ...

Some exciting news on the literary front at Hyperallergic! Starting this July, the extraordinary Wendy Xu will be replacing me as poetry editor, while I take over the newly minted post of fiction ...

Since she quit her publishing house job to become an editor at a web fiction firm, Xia Xiaolin has three necessities other than her laptop: eyedrops, a lumbar support cushion, and cigarettes. It’s ...

Frederik Pohl (1918-2013) recorded at the Octocon Science Fiction Convention, October 15-16, 1978. Interviewers: Richard Wolinsky, Richard A. Lupoff and Lawrence Davidson, for KPFA’s Probabilities ...