Jennifer Niesslein

  Jonathan Franzen at the 2011 Time 100 gala / by David Shankbone   Hi, Jonathan, I read your essay in the Guardian, and, I have to say, I’m worried about your professional legacy. I agree with some of what you had to say, disagre [...]

   bloomua / 123RF Stock Photo   Until my memoir came out, I had no idea how many people did not want to be friends with me. To be fair, I also didn’t know how many people thought they could be friends with me. I’d almost fo [...]

The following post is part of our online companion to our Spring 2013 issue on The Business of Literature. Click here for an overview of the issue. —— We met as fans, which is to say that we read each other’s writing and wished for [...]

  Quimby / Flickr   Editor’s note: Through March, Jennifer Niesslein (@jniesslein) is contributing interviews with interesting, “ordinary” people, who do extraordinary things worthy of the big screen—to complement o [...]

  Still from from Little Tally J1 video (click to view)   Editor’s note: Through March, Jennifer Niesslein (@jniesslein) is contributing interviews with interesting, “ordinary” people, who do extraordinary things worthy of [...]

  Flickr / Mordac   Editor's note: Through March, Jennifer Niesslein (@jniesslein) is contributing interviews with interesting, "ordinary" people, who do extraordinary things worthy of the big screen—to complement our Win [...]

  Ogeid66 / Flickr   Editor's note: Through March, Jennifer Niesslein (@jniesslein) is contributing interviews with interesting, "ordinary" people, who do extraordinary things worthy of the big screen—to complement our Winter [...]

  By Ruminatrix / Flickr / Creative Commons   I have no beef with sensationalism in my entertainment. For years now, I’ve been known to wind down with the sort of television that has no reason for existing, no stakes in the real wo [...]

When my son was five months old, my friend Stephanie and I decided to start a magazine about motherhood. I was living then in a town that was known, in equal parts, for its college and for its poultry processing plants (and a little bit for its bus [...]