Help keep Salon independent

Michele Filgate

X: @readandbreathe

Michele Filgate’s work has appeared in The Daily Beast, Vulture, Capital New York, Time Out New York, The Star Tribune, O: The Oprah Magazine, Bookslut, The Quarterly Conversation and other publications

Sherman Alexie (Rob Casey)

“There’s nothing worse than a white liberal who thinks they’re doing the right thing”: Sherman Alexie on Hollywood diversity, “The Revenant” and why he’s “not the proper kind of Indian”

Michele Filgate
(Jake Hamilton)

How “Another Day” author David Levithan found his voice: “Most of the stories being told about gay teens were ones about suicide, depression, and violence”

Michele Filgate
Christy Wampole (Christy Wampole)

“Comment sections are brilliant and extremely relevant”: Christy Wampole on the awfulness of Facebook, the utility of “think pieces” and why you might be reading the Internet all wrong

Michele Filgate
Benedict Cumberbatch in "Sherlock" (Hartswood Films)

I’m addicted to British jerks: Even the most awful TV dudes are sexy when they sound a bit posh

Michele Filgate
Jonathan Galassi (Knopf/Nancy Crampton)

“The erotics of books are alive and well”: Jonathan Galassi on his new novel — plus, Jennifer Weiner and why Jonathan Franzen is a feminist

Michele Filgate

Write an essay, get … a goat farm?: The bizarre new literary economy that’s matching real estate with gifted writers

Michele Filgate
Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts in "While We're Young" (A24)

You’re still nothing until you’re a mom: Why does pop culture hate the child-free?

Michele Filgate
Elizabeth Alexander (AP/Andrew Harnik)

“Sorrow everywhere with nowhere to go”: Elizabeth Alexander on losing her husband and writing through grief

Michele Filgate
Samantha Harvey (Atavist Books)

Samantha Harvey: “We don’t always have to write about women in the context of their relationships with men”

Michele Filgate

Salon’s What to Read Awards: Top critics choose the best books of 2014

Michele Filgate
Leslie Jamison (AP/Richard Drew)

“Fear can be the enemy of empathy”: Leslie Jamison on Ferguson, Ebola and America’s painful 2014

Michele Filgate

Authors’ favorite books: The ultimate literary guide to 2014

Michele Filgate
Katha Pollitt (kathapollitt.blogspot.com)

Katha Pollitt: America is a “fiesta of licentiousness,” but we’re still conflicted about sex

Michele Filgate

Read these books over Labor Day weekend

Michele Filgate
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-428239p1.html'>Ermolaev Alexander</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

The best literary hashtags on Twitter

Michele Filgate

Who needs Amazon? 7 Hachette books worth tracking down at your local indie bookstore

Michele Filgate

A reading list for your Memorial Day weekend

Michele Filgate
Roxane Gay, Leslie Jamison (Jay Grabiec/AP/Richard Drew)

Leslie Jamison and Roxane Gay: “Men are crowned as the gold standard of the genre. It’s gonna change”

Michele Filgate

Salon’s What to Read Awards: Top critics choose the best books of 2013

Michele Filgate

Salon’s ultimate book guide for 2013

Michele Filgate
(Jennifer Schatten/Reuters/Joaquin Sarmiento)

Literary self-loathing: How Jonathan Franzen, Elizabeth Gilbert and more keep it at bay

Michele Filgate
(Knopf/Michelle Quint)

Dave Eggers made me quit Twitter

Michele Filgate
Susan Sontag, Caroline Leavitt (AP/Michael Probst/Algonquin Books)

Will social media kill writers’ diaries?

Michele Filgate
Virginia Woolf (Wikimedia)

Vice re-creates female authors’ suicides for maximum trolling

Michele Filgate
« Previous
Page: 1
Next »