Loading...
Loading...
Click here if you don’t see subscription options
Voices

J. Greg Phelan is co-founder and board chair of Project Write Now, a nonprofit dedicated to helping people of all ages become better writers. He has written for The New York Times, The Millions and other publications.

Arts & CultureBooks
J. Greg Phelan
Elizabeth Strout’s new short story collection offers an array of poignant case studies portraying this legacy of trauma.
Arts & Culture
J. Greg Phelan
Moonglow may be the most entertaining, well-written and truthful memoir you've ever read.
Books
J. Greg Phelan
'All Days Are Night,' by Peter Stamm
Books
J. Greg Phelan
"The Book of Strange New Things: A Novel," by Michel Faber
Books
J. Greg Phelan
'My Struggle' by Karl Ove Knausgaard
Books
J. Greg Phelan
'We Are Not Ourselves,' by Matthew Thomas
Books
J. Greg Phelan
'In the Wolf’s Mouth,' by Adam Foulds
Books
J. Greg Phelan
In her 1963 essay ldquo Novelist and Believer rdquo Flannery O rsquo Connor lamented the difficulty of writing about man rsquo s encounter with God and making the experience understandable and credible to a skeptical modern audience devoid of religious feeling ldquo Today rsquo s reader rdquo
Books
J. Greg Phelan
ldquo J F Powers 81 Dies Wrote about Priests rdquo So read the stark headline of this great Catholic writer rsquo s obituary in The New York Times in 1999 Powers did write about priests in most of his short stories and both of his novels including his comic masterpiece Morte d rsquo Urban
Arts & CultureBooks
While Strout’s masterful design draws us in, it is the searing emotional specificity of her language that captures us.