Dinah Lenney is the author of The Object Parade (2014) and Bigger than Life: A Murder, a Memoir (2007), and co-editor of Brief Encounters: A Collection of Contemporary Nonfiction (co-editor, 2015). She serves as core faculty in the Bennington Writing Seminars, and as an editor-at-large for LARB. Her latest book is Coffee (Bloomsbury, 2020).
Dinah Lenney
Articles
A Longer Reach: Thanksgiving 2016
Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall
Restless Books asks three writers to look in the mirror and say what they see.
Here Comes Everything!
Dinah Lenney and Arne De Boever Interview Christopher Schaberg and Ian Bogost
Into the Wild
"H Is for Hawk" deals with falconry, human interactions with "the wild," personal loss, and grief.
Writing Is Key
Dinah Lenney interviews memoirist Abigail Thomas.
Stretching Out
"My ideal audience would be every literate person on earth, minus anyone I’m related to or grew up with."
A New Collection of California Prose
"Trying to capture California in one book is like attempting to catch a hurricane in a shot glass."
Cell Phone Diaries
What Emily Post can't tell us: cell phones in the bathroom stall and other conundrums.
Why Genre Matters
The old question of genre just won't go away: Sven Birkerts, Judith Kitchen, Scott Nadelson, David Biespiel, and Dinah Lenney mix it up some more.
What Happens When You Wait
How to make sense of such unspeakable loss?
The Ghost of Books: Past, Present, and Future
"The Ghost of Books: Past, Present, and Future" is an experiment not in terror and not necessarily Dickensian.
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