A Conversation With Porochista Khakpour
The novelist discusses her new memoir about living with Lyme, being a refugee, and the search for home.
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PS Picks: The Exceptional Runners-Up for This Year's Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing
PS Picks is a selection of the best things that the magazine's staff and contributors are reading, watching, or otherwise paying attention to in the worlds of art, politics, and culture.
PS Picks: Well-Read Black Girl, Noir Reads, and Other Answers to the Sensitivity Reader Problem
PS Picks is a selection of the best things that the magazine's staff and contributors are reading, watching, or otherwise paying attention to in the worlds of art, politics, and culture.
Dispatches: 'Pacific Standard' at the L.A. Times Festival of Books
News and notes from Pacific Standard staff and contributors.
PS Picks: Michelle Dean's 'Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion'
PS Picks is a selection of the best things that the magazine's staff and contributors are reading, watching, or otherwise paying attention to in the worlds of art, politics, and culture.
PS Picks: Michelle Dean on Women in Literature
PS Picks is a selection of the best things that the magazine's staff and contributors are reading, watching, or otherwise paying attention to in the worlds of art, politics, and culture.
PS Picks: Geoff Dyer on the Photography of Garry Winogrand
PS Picks is a selection of the best things that the magazine's staff and contributors are reading, watching, or otherwise paying attention to in the worlds of art, politics, and culture.
Dispatches: The Secret to Enjoying the AWP Writing Conference
News and notes from Pacific Standard staff and contributors.
PS Picks: Conquering Cynicism in a Secular World With Marilynne Robinson
PS Picks is a selection of the best things that the magazine's staff and contributors are reading, watching, or otherwise paying attention to in the worlds of art, politics, and culture.
Can Fan Fiction Bridge the Gaps in Sex Education for Marginalized Communities?
For anyone who isn't a straight man, sexual education and the media can get sexuality wrong. Fan fiction is helping change that.
Letters to a Young Blogger
For academics looking to play a larger public role, publishing online can be a useful counter to some of the downsides of scholarly writing.
What Typos Can Tell Us About This White House
Typos in official correspondence are tiny errors on their own, but they suggest a much larger problem within the administration.
Creating in an Age of Anxiety, Depression, and Dread
Anxiety can lead to better art, but do the two have to be so mutually intertwined?
A Conversation With Blair Braverman, Author of ‘Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube’
Two writers with roots in Alaska talk landscape, identity, survival, and the problem with the term alpha male.
America's Problem With Writers of Color
Attempts to increase diversity must be coupled with an actual effort to realize how people of color crucially influence a society barreling toward change.
A Taxonomy of Writers’ Foes
They say that naming your fears makes them less scary. Here's a thorough categorization of universal writerly anxieties that everyone feels always and not just me.
What It Feels Like to Go Viral
BuzzFeed, YouTube, and (former) Gawker stars all describe a similar psychological rush, but riding the viral wave comes with dangers too.
How Do You Make a Living, Freddie deBoer?
Noah Davis talks to Freddie deBoer about making a living in the world of academia, why grad school worked for him (but probably not for you), and why you should get a job before you start writing about politics.
For a Writer of Color, Is Twitter More Valuable Than an MFA?
As if the overwhelmingly white world of publishing, institutional networking, and workshopping wasn't already hard for people of color. Morgan Jerkins found writerly advancement in the more informal space of Black Twitter.
The Power of Confession
What is it about the "I" in writing that keeps us so intrigued?
How Do You Make a Living, Freelance Investigative Reporter?
Noah Davis talks to Scott Carney about the difficulty of making a living as a freelance journalist, the art of negotiation, and the evil of Condé Nast.