“I like how the diary entry of this experience opens, as if for an audience. That’s unusual.”

In our new series Writers’ Fridges, we bring you snapshots of the abyss that writers stare into most frequently: their refrigerators.     You are catching my fridge on a well-stocked day, and it still looks like where hope goes to die. …

Revisited is a new series in which writers look back on a work of art they first encountered long ago. For the first edition, Sloane Crosley revisits Guy de Maupassant’s story “The Necklace.”In order to discover Guy de Maupassant, I had to read James…