Brandon Taylor

Jan 4, 2025 | theatlantic.com | Brandon Taylor

A short storyListen to more stories on harkThe dinner was to be at Galina’s apartment, in the East 70s. She had been watching a lot of Visconti and wanted to re-create the salons and dinners of The Innocent, Ludwig, and Death in Venice. For approximately a decade, her husband, Igor, had been dying from a series of treatable cancers in nonessential tissues. “Dying is so boring after a while,” he said.

Sep 28, 2023 | joylandmagazine.com | Brandon Taylor |Devin Kawailani Barricklow

Per was off work for a week with a concussion. He spent most of that time on a pull-out in the darkened living room while the couple he lived with went about muted versions of their life. They asked him quietly how he was feeling, what he needed. They got him glasses of cold water and changed his bedding the first night when he got so warm that he sweated down through the sheets. They helped him to bathe when he smelled raw and sour but felt too tired to move.

Sep 2, 2023 | zukus.net | Julia Fine |John Wray |Ray Nayler |Brandon Taylor

In the years when I was teaching at Clemson University (2005-2011), it was a virtual guarantee that just about every student had read at least one book entirely for pleasure and under their own initiative. In fact, by 2007, I could be confident many of them had read at least seven books for pleasure because 2007 marks the publication year of the final volume of J.K. Rowlings Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

Aug 28, 2023 | electricliterature.com | Brandon Taylor |Weike Wang |Kyla Walker

The fictional characters in most campus novels are almost always undergraduates between the tender ages of eighteen and twenty-two.

Aug 14, 2023 | newswav.com | Brandon Taylor

With Memorial Day weekend upon us, there's no better time to dip into some summer reading, whether you're relaxing by the pool or escaping into a novel on your lunch break at your desk. The following titles are some of the most anticipated releases of the year, from comedian and And Just Like That... writer Samantha Irby's latest collection of uproarious essays, to journalist Elise Hu's incisive investigation into the $10 billion K-beauty industry.