Geoff Dyer on the art of nonfiction: "The process of book writing for me is entirely one of trial and error." And Edward P. Jones on the art of fiction: "Until I can read a story physically, with the eyes, it doesn’t seem to exist for me."

The first installment of a novel by Rachel Cusk. New fiction from J. D. Daniels, Jenny Offill, Nell Freudenberger, Ottessa Moshfegh, and Lydia Davis, and the winner of the NPR Three-Minute Fiction Contest.

Poems by Kevin Prufer, Susan Stewart, Hilda Hilst, Charlie Smith, Monica Youn, Sylvie Baumgartel, Emily Moore, and Linda Pastan. A portfolio of nudes by Chuck Close.