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Gatherings Gone Wrong: Five Books Featuring Disastrous Party Scenes

Gatherings Gone Wrong: Five Books Featuring Disastrous Party Scenes

Jonathan Parks-Ramage Explores Brilliantly Bad Fetes in Books by Edward St. Aubyn, Raven Leilani, Deborah Eisenberg, and Others

By Jonathan Parks-Ramage | June 10, 2025

How the Stoics Dealt With FOMO

How the Stoics Dealt With FOMO

Four Lessons For, It Turns Out, A Not “Very Modern Problem”

By Brigid Delaney | October 23, 2023

Gilded Age Parties Were Even Wilder Than You Can Imagine

Gilded Age Parties Were Even Wilder Than You Can Imagine

19th-Century One Percent">Renée Rosen Runs Down the Great Balls of the
19th-Century One Percent

By Renée Rosen | April 22, 2021

Five Surprising Things I Learned from Partying with Rich People

Five Surprising Things I Learned from Partying with Rich People

Sociologist Ashley Mears on Extravagant Wealth

By Ashley Mears | May 22, 2020

How to Throw a Shower for a Novel

How to Throw a Shower for a Novel

Caroline Louise Walker on Celebrating a Very Important New Arrival

By Caroline Louise Walker | November 27, 2019

A very accurate prediction of LeVar Burton's night hosting the National Book Awards.

A very accurate prediction of LeVar Burton's night hosting the National Book Awards.

By Jonny Diamond | November 20, 2019

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Unsubstantiated: An Essay of Sexual Violence

By Susan Straight | October 24, 2019

11 Legendary Literary Parties We're Sad to Have Missed

By Emily Temple | July 18, 2019

Where Writers Are Treated Like Movie Stars

By Michele Hutchison | March 22, 2019

At the Words Without Borders Globe Trot in Search of a Peach

At the Words Without Borders Globe Trot in Search of a Peach

Or, How to Say "Let's Dance" in 114 Languages

By Fran Bigman | November 2, 2018

Kristen Arnett: Ain't No Party Like a Library Party

Kristen Arnett: Ain't No Party Like a Library Party

There's Something For Everyone at Your Local Library (and If There Isn't, Just Ask)

By Kristen Arnett | August 29, 2018

West Virginia Lit: Behold the Travelin' Appalachians Revue

West Virginia Lit: Behold the Travelin' Appalachians Revue

Reading Across America Heads to the Mountains

By Howard Parsons | May 30, 2018

Celeste Ng: Bookstores Are the Center of the Literary Ecosystem

Celeste Ng: Bookstores Are the Center of the Literary Ecosystem

In Conversation with this Year's Ambassador for Independent Bookstore Day

By Literary Hub | April 27, 2018

Celebrating Socially Engaged Fiction at the Aspen Words Literary Prize

Celebrating Socially Engaged Fiction at the Aspen Words Literary Prize

A Report From the Inaugural Ceremony

By Kyle Lucia Wu | April 11, 2018

Snow, Secrecy, and a Speech from the Queen: The 2018 Whiting Awards

Snow, Secrecy, and a Speech from the Queen: The 2018 Whiting Awards

A Report From the Land of Lobster Rolls and Endless Wine

By Kyle Lucia Wu | March 22, 2018

Celebrating One of the Richest Literary Prizes in the World

Celebrating One of the Richest Literary Prizes in the World

Photos from Last Night's 2017 Kirkus Awards Ceremony

By Emily Temple | November 3, 2017

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