Books

The author of the new graphic novel Boys Weekend discusses their creative habits.

And lucky for us, her debut novel is chock-full of it.

The acclaimed essayist can trace her entire career — including her latest book, Quietly Hostile — back to some flirtatious messages on MySpace.

The Rodham and American Wife author explores the tradition of SNL hosts hooking up with the show’s cast — but with a fun, feminist twist.

The I Have Some Questions For You author set out to write “the world’s worst high school reunion” and ended up with a very different novel.

Nothing Special spotlights the women behind the typewriters.

The Daisy Jones & The Six author’s fascination with star image fueled a quartet of novels.

Her debut novel Brutes cleverly uses a collective voice to communicate so much more than a story.

With Central Places, Cai deploys the familiar Hallmark movie plot to tell a different story.

Even if she doesn’t actually follow the advice.

Her new novel, Aesthetica, is a nuanced exploration of beauty standards, Instagram culture, and what it really means to like how you look.

The author of Fleishman Is in Trouble — and the showrunner of its FX adaptation — is nothing if not adaptable.

The author listened to the album on repeat while writing the novel, which inspired Netflix’s new film.

In People Person, Carty-Williams writes about a family much like her own.

“To have to keep rehashing those stories or dig for that kind of material, I’m very much on a break from that.”

“The second I stopped trying to force the book to be something it just didn't want to be, that was when the world kind of opened up.”