Love Letters from Lord Byron’s Boyfriend
LETTER 5: October 31, 1811, Nicolas Giraud to Byron. All letters courtesy of The National Library of Scotland. Lord Byron’s…
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Cheating with John Cheever
Photograph by Nancy Crampton. Over a morning cappuccino in a small but lively European café that spilled onto the central…
Confused
Robot icon by SyntaxTerror, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. Read parts one and two of Nancy Lemann’s series on talking…
The Wishing Well
The Wishing Well, Summer 1979. All images reproduced with permission of the Lesbian Herstory Archives. “I am once again looking…
A World Without Grass
Photograph by Krista Diamond. The white lines on the dirt football field were fresh, but by halftime they would be…
Ten Writing Prompts
Photo courtesy of Lucy Ives. Novelist and critic Lucy Ives began compiling writing prompts, sometimes spontaneously in the classes she…
The Making of Poetry: Jana Prikryl on “Dover Calais”
English Channel. Photo by Markus Trienke, via Wikimedia Commons. Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0. For our Poetry Making series, we…
Two Women, Three Guns: About Hedda Gabler and Anna Christie
Ghostly light in a dark theater. Photo by Jon Ellwood, via Wikimedia Commons. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. During a…
Bill Buckley’s “Art of Fiction”
William F. Buckley Jr., 1954. Los Angeles Daily News. CC BY 4.0. via Wikimedia Commons Of all the writers whose…
A Big Empty Cup of Attention
Every month, we search dozens of soon-to-be-published books, to get great ideas and writing for Overview’site. Often we are surprised…