On April 22, 1959, the 34-year-old southern novelist and short-story writer Flannery O’Connor visited Vanderbilt University and read her...

In 2014 I was hired, for two consecutive spring semesters, to teach writing and literature at one of the officially happiest colleges in...

George Saunders and his wife, Paula, in 1986. February 1986 Tobias Wolff calls my parents’ house in Amarillo, Texas, leaves a message:...