10.30.2024 by Ben Shields 10.30.2024 by Ben Shields THE OTHER WOMAN Diana Athill didn't write memoirs to make you cry. — Ben Shields
07.18.2024 by Ben Shields 07.18.2024 by Ben Shields The pleasures of identity "In a better world, [Edmund White] would have been a professor in Gay Studies" - Blake Smith and Tae-ho Kim in conversation
12.05.2022 by Ben Shields 12.05.2022 by Ben Shields At Home with Beckett Rosset The man behind downtown New York's hottest venue talks literature, Rikers, and how his namesake moved him to write.
08.12.2022 by Ben Shields 08.12.2022 by Ben Shields Do You Believe in Alfred Chester? John Keats’s contention that the strong poet lacks any individuality or determined character held true for Alfred Chester. It was a conundrum that contributed as much to his genius as it did his eventual suicide in Jerusalem at the age of forty-three.
08.03.2022 by Ben Shields 08.03.2022 by Ben Shields Two Fussy Linguists Wayne Koestenbaum and Derek McCormack on active sentences, rhinestones, and why The Carlyle has New York’s best bathrooms.
