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Articles by Stacey D’erasmo
A Sexy Summer Leads to Decades of Trysts — and Heartbreak Original
You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load. Fiction In Kiran Millwood Hargrave’s novel “Almost Life,” a passionate love affair between two college women gives way to a lifetime of what-ifs. March 23, 2026, 12:50 p.m. ET ALMOST LIFE, by Kiran Millwood Hargrave The land of Almost is a treacherous zone.
'The starving artist' is a myth, author says: Here's what it takes for creatives to sustain a career Original
In Stacey D’Erasmo’s new book, “The Long Run,” she interviews artists who are late in their careers. There’s dancer and performer Valda Setterfield, who performed through her 80s despite serious injuries from a car accident in her 40s. There’s writer Samuel Delany, now 82, who has published more than 40 books although he’s dyslexic.
Book Review: ‘The Long Run,’ by Stacey D’Erasmo
THE LONG RUN: A Creative Inquiry, by Stacey D’Erasmo I do not believe there is an artist in history who hasn’t asked themself — at least once — “Why do I do this?” The designation of “creator” may make for a glorious calling card, but as an occupation, it involves a disproportionate amount of spirit-crushing struggle and relatively few rewards. And yet, day after day, year after year, century after century, we do it.
Rylander Library November New Book List
Anything Plain by Adrian Dannhauser The Boys From Biloxi by John Grisham Come Down Somewhere by Jennifer Wright The Complicities by Stacey D’Erasmo Devil’s Delight: An Agatha Raisin Mystery by M.C. Beaton Distant Thunder by Stuart Woods Endless Summer: Stories from Days That Last Forever by Elin Hilderbrand The High Notes by Danielle Steel How To Lose Weight for the Last Time: Brain-Based Solutions for Permanent Weight Loss by Katrina Ubell The Impatient by Amadou Djaili Amal The Invincible...
Neither Villain Nor Victim: Stacey D’Erasmo on Embracing Discomfort in Telling the Story of a Complicit Woman
The story of our own complicity in malign forces is one that’s hard to tell, generally, right now. It’s unpopular, and even dangerous, to have mixed allegiances, tangled motives, dirty hands. And yet, given the highly complicated nature of things like power, money, and cultural capital in this world, to name a few, who can claim unblemished virtue? Anyone out there get paid by a university that once owned slaves, still invests in fossil fuels, or contributes to student debt? Show of hands.
Stacey D’Erasmo on the Fun of Writing Cryptic Characters
The following first appeared in Lit Hub’s The Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. I have a lifelong fascination with the in-between. The liminal, the indeterminate, the cuspy: all of this draws me in. In my house are photographs and drawings in which images seem to be just about to disappear, or perhaps emerge. An ex of mine used to joke that in any given gallery or museum, I could be found making a beeline for anything that you couldn’t really tell what it was. Sea or sky? Face or cloud?
Jennifer Egan’s “The Candy House” Is Another Dazzling Feat of Literary Invention
Fans of Jennifer Egan’s breakout hit and Pulitzer Prize-winning 2010 novel A Visit from the Goon Squad will be thrilled to know that its “sibling novel,” The Candy House, is here at last. The two books are connected loosely, like wildflowers sown in the same field. You’ll see kleptomaniac Sasha again, who has now transformed her criminality into art. You’ll cross paths with Sasha’s husband, Drew; her son, Lincoln, who falls somewhere on the autism spectrum; and her art history professor uncle, Ted.
Songs of Survival and Rebellion
It's time: for feasts, toasts and reflection, a moment to take stock of the year that's almost behind us and look to what's ahead. The holidays are upon us — and so are a trove of wonderful new books. These titles will thrill any reader on your list: cookbooks to inspire and guide, photography books to please the eye. Travel and nature writing to transport you to faraway places, and sports books — not just for super fans! — that weave tales of heartbreak and victory.
Atmospheric Disturbances by Rivka Galchen
Atmospheric Disturbances: A Novel BY Rivka Galchen. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Hardcover, 256 pages. $24. Purchase this book: Indiebound • Amazon An unprovable theory: Before everything, before finishing her first book, even, a writer makes a certain, unique sound. Perhaps this means that the writer hears a certain sound or is tuned to a certain pitch.
Liz Phair Still Doesn’t Care What We Think
Nonfiction Image Phair: “We can be monsters, we human beings.” Oct. 9, 2019, 5:00 a.m. ET HORROR STORIES A Memoir By Liz Phair “It’s hard to tell the truth about ourselves,” Liz Phair writes in the prologue to her memoir, “Horror Stories.” “We’re afraid,” she continues, “we will be defined by our worst decisions instead of our best.” This is a surprising statement from the woman who wrote and recorded the raw indie-rock classic “Exile in Guyville,” released in 1993.
Woodshlock Nation: The Myth! The Mud! The Marketing!
Who Owns the City That Never Was? July 19, 1994 I. THE INVISIBLE CITY THE RIGHT-HAND TANK IS LEAKING. Twenty-five feet high, twin to the tank on the left, now half-filled with about 450,000 gallons of water drawn from the Blue Mountain Reservoir, the right-hand tank is, subtly, dripping. Its liner, filled with pinholes, is also leaking.
Nazi Literature in the Americas - Roberto Bolaño - Book Review
Among the many acid pleasures of the work of Roberto Bolaño, who died at 50 in 2003, is his idea that culture, in particular literary culture, is a whore. In the face of political repression, upheaval and danger, writers continue to swoon over the written word, and this, for Bolaño, is the source both of nobility and of pitch-black humor. In his novel “The Savage Detectives,” two avid young Latino poets never lose faith in their rarefied art no matter the vicissitudes of life, age and politics.
The Art of Intimacy by Stacey D’Erasmo
The Art of Intimacy by Stacey D’Erasmo This slim, precise book, part of The Art of series from Graywolf Press, a collection of short books on writing edited by Charles Baxter, is a profound meditation on the relationships between fictional characters, the possibility and meaning of intimacy in fiction, and most vitally, an exploration by a master writer of how authors create relationships between readers and their stories.
Stepsisters, Lovers and Gender-Bending Artists, Now Celebrated in a Novel
NEVER ANYONE BUT YOU By Rupert Thomson 350 pp. Other Press. $25.95 The basic facts of the lives of Claude Cahun (nee Lucie Schwob) and Marcel Moore (nee Suzanne Malherbe) offer enough material for any number of novels. They met as teenagers in France in 1909 and fell in love. They hid the affair, of course, but fortunately for them Schwob’s divorced father married Suzanne’s widowed mother in 1917, making them stepsisters.
Suddenly One Summer (Published 2007)
Feb. 25, 2007 This novel is hot. A coming-of-age story, a coming-out story, a Proustian meditation on time and desire, a love letter, an invocation and something of an epitaph, “Call Me by Your Name” is also an open question.
Catapult | On Power Between Women: The Handmaid’s Tale Revisited | Stacey D’Erasmo
The Handmaid’s Tale , by Margaret Atwood, was first published in 1985, when I was twenty-four years old. I read and loved it then; I reread it at least once in the next three decades and loved it; I recently reread it again, and still loved it. The book was made into a film starring Natasha Richardson in 1990, with a screenplay by Harold Pinter, and directed by Volker Schlöndorff . On April 26, Hulu will release a miniseries based on the book, starring Elisabeth Moss.
A Widow Uncovers Her Husband’s Paris Past in a Lauded New Novel
Some time ago, I had a lover about whom a book of romantic poetry had been written. During the many years we were together, I never read it because I thought, “Now there’s a movie I don’t need to see.” On the day I moved out, I finally read the book and it was anticlimactic. The woman in that other person’s rendering bore very little resemblance to the woman I’d been living with for so long. She was someone else’s version, someone else’s desire, adventure and heartbreak.
Mary Gaitskill’s ‘The Mare’
Desire and damage have long intertwined, an inseparable couple, in the work of Mary Gaitskill. With her first collection of stories in 1988, “Bad Behavior,” Gaitskill staked out her territory: love, or something, among the ruins — the ruins of self, the ruins of hope, the ruins created by cruelty, both literal and psychological. In Gaitskill’s work, people hurt one another for fun, for spite, inadvertently, because they can, and (as she titled a later collection) because they wanted to.
Is God Just Not That Into Me?
Modern Love April 17, 2014 I never thought much about God, certainly never wondered whether God was thinking about me, until I fell in love with a Zen Buddhist priest. I met him on an online dating site, an environment of tactical omission. I just knew he was a Buddhist, as he knew I was a writer. He entered the coffee shop where we were meeting in person for the first time — a compact, handsome man with a shaved head.
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