Emily Henry: There’s a question I kept asking myself as I wrote Great Big Beautiful Life:What happens to a story when the person telling it doesn’t trust their own voice anymore?This book began as a mystery—a journalist chasing the secrets of a woman the world had half-forgotten. But it quickly became something more intimate. A layered meditation on grief, … [Read more...] about Great Big Beautiful Life: The Stories That Made Us Real
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Saul Bellow’s Heroes Confront the Chaos of Modern Life in 2025
Saul Bellow: I never imagined my characters would outlive me, let alone find each other again. Yet here they are, perched like old prophets above a city more frantic than wise, speaking not with nostalgia but with a raw, necessary urgency.Each of these men—Herzog, Sammler, Citrine, Augie, and Corde—was born from my suspicion that the modern world, for all … [Read more...] about Saul Bellow’s Heroes Confront the Chaos of Modern Life in 2025