Archive - The Word Cave

Museum Pages: Frida Kahlo and the Artist’s Body

on making art while in pain

Dec 18, 2024 •

My Year in Reading

on reading projects and writing projects

Dec 3, 2024 •

November 2024

What Is a Novel?

on finding respite in art

Nov 8, 2024 •

October 2024

My Secret Project

I’ve been working on a new book…

Oct 15, 2024 •

September 2024

Museum Pages: On Mary Cassatt and “Women’s Fiction”

She was a woman, unapologetically making art about women’s everyday lives. In the 1800s.

Sep 3, 2024 •

June 2024

May 2024

Tour Diary (Part 3): The Pacific Northwest

On this last stretch of (this part of) book tour, I had the surreal and new-to-me experience of being on not one but two morning talk shows—one in…

May 23, 2024 •

Tour Diary (Part 2): San Francisco

I always feel uneasy in San Francisco. No, more than that. I feel… bereaved. And the beauty of the city just makes it worse—like someone smiling sweetly…

May 20, 2024 •

Tour Diary (Part 1?): Los Angeles

Honestly, I like LA. I feel like maybe I’m not supposed to say that as a New Yorker—the two cities positioned as opposite poles, coastal metropolis…

May 16, 2024 •

First Love is here!

Today’s the day! First Love: Essays on Friendship is officially available wherever books are sold.

May 7, 2024 •

April 2024

Spoilers from 1878: On Anna Karenina and Inevitable Endings

Instead of wishing I didn’t know how it was going to end, I spent a lot of time paying attention to how knowing the ending impacted my experience of the…

Apr 30, 2024 •

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