“It’s as if you’re writing on a leaf that the wind blows away as soon as you let it go,” Charles Baxter says in his conversation with staff reader Thomas Nath. Baxter discusses the changes in writing that come with age, the job of the artist, and the thinkers who influenced the short pieces that comprise “Five Paper Pills” from NER 47.3. 

Browse & shop new books from Paisley Rekdal, Frank Stanford, Wendell Berry, Hera Naguib, & many more NER contributors.

Staff reader Kevin Testa talks with NER 47.3 contributor Gretchen Schrafft about characterization in historical fiction, writing about pain, and the role animals play in her story.

Browse & shop new books from Kazim Ali, Sherwin Bitsui, Karin Gottshall, Mansi Dahal, Cristina Rivera Garza & much more.

Join us on Thursday, October 22, at 7 PM EST a reading with National Poetry Series winner Christopher Kondrich, International Latino Book award winner and Middlebury professor Gloria Estela González, educator and writer Diana Whitney, and Middlebury student writer Nikita Rodov.

Eliza Tiles spent her summer at NER as part of the MiddWorks for Vermont internship program. She read submissions, assisted with copyediting and social media, conducted market research, completed a Behind the Byline interview, and much more.