Lynn Schmeidler

Apr 8, 2024 | largeheartedboy.com | Lynn Schmeidler

In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, Aimee Bender, Roxane Gay, and many others.

Mar 28, 2024 | electricliterature.com | Terese Svoboda |Ananda Lima |Jo Lou |Lynn Schmeidler

Short stories can do things novels cannot because they’re short. They’re limber and can dart in and out of close-fitting places. They can be weird and daring in ways that novels cannot always sustain. Joy Williams writes in, “8 Essential Attributes of the Short Story (and one way it differs from a novel), “A novel wants to befriend you, a short story almost never.” Between the pages I’m not looking for another friend; I’m seeking an experience of bewitchment.

Nov 30, 2023 | bombmagazine.org | Omotara James |Erin Taylor |Tobias Carroll |Lynn Schmeidler

BOMB looks back at the books from small and independent presses we featured in 2023 and helps you pair them with the idiosyncratic readers in your life. We’re grateful to all of the independent publishers out there for championing new and exciting voices—and for the conversations that they’ve inspired in BOMB. ACTION BOOKS My Jewel Box by Ursula Andkjær OlsenFor the avid Pixar consumer who cries during WALL-E.