Dao Strom’s Seven Works of Hybridity
I’ve always lived a little on the outside—whether due to the obvious ways I didn’t fit in with the rural, conservative, mostly-white community of…
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Celeste Ng’s Seven Short Story Writers
The short story might be the most “literary” form of literary fiction—okay, maybe after the novella. There’s an air of refinement around a short…
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Lacy M. Johnson’s Five Essayists
This past October the New York Times Sunday Book Review asked, “Is This a Golden Age for Women Essayists?”
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Karrie Fransman’s Eight Graphic Novelists
Open a graphic novel, and you’ll look down on a page filled with little windows into the artist’s world: worlds of painted mythology…
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Venus Thrash’s Six Books by Lesbians of Color
I want to read books with high-quality writing and an engaging storyline. I want complex and multifaceted LGBTQ characters.
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Megan Greenwell’s Seven Sports Journalists
Part of me objects to the very existence of a list that considers sports reporting separately from any other kind. Too many people still consider sports sections the toy departments of newspapers and magazines, a frivolity for people looking to avoid “real news.”
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Katia Bachko’s Six Personal Essayists
Here’s a crackpot theory: as the world grew hot, flat, and crowded, monocultural, and globalized, the urge to hear intimate stories became particularly vital….
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BK Loren’s Five Badass Fiction and Nonfiction Writers
The writers I’ve chosen have very little in common in terms of theme, subject matter, and writing style. But the beauty that binds them…
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Anna Lena Phillips’s Five Poets of Place
It can be hard to talk about place-based writers—for a lot of people, I think, “place” signals “environmental,” which signals on-to-the-next. It’s a big…
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Anne Helen Petersen’s Ten Writers on Entertainment
I come to journalism from an untraditional background (I received a PhD in media studies and spent three years as a professor before coming…
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Lorraine M. López’s Six Writers on Social Class
When asked to compose a list of women who write about social class, a parade of female authors marched through my head. The table…
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Sarah Menkedick’s Four Books on Early Motherhood
Sarah Menkedick recommends four books on early motherhood. “One of the many surprises of pregnancy was the craving I developed for literature, not too distant in its urgency from the craving for Haribo gummy raspberries.”
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