Maggie Shipstead is a New York Times bestselling author of three novels — Seating Arrangements, Astonish Me, and Great Circle (her newest novel that is on many best-of lists for 2021) and her work has won a laundry list of awards. She's also written essays and travel articles like her piece for Modern Love. And like all of us, Maggie has to

-Maggie Shipstead on Elizabeth O'Connor's Whale Fall (The New York Times Book Review) "A decade after The Argonauts became the bible of English graduates everywhere, the essays in Like Love arrive to help us understand Nelson's place in a culture where, to her half-delight, she has become such a powerful voice. Spanning two decades

Mini-Interviews. The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #73: Maggie Shipstead. Lucas Loredo. March 2, 2017. I first met Maggie Shipstead in 2011 when she was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. She had not yet published her first novel, Seating Arrangements, which would later become a New York Times bestseller, but even then the magnitude of

Maggie Shipstead is a New York Times bestselling author of three novels — Seating Arrangements, Astonish Me, and Great Circle (her newest novel that is on many best-of lists for 2021) and her work has won a laundry list of awards. She's also written essays and travel articles like her piece for Modern Love. And like all of us, Maggie has to

-Maggie Shipstead on Elizabeth O'Connor's Whale Fall (The New York Times Book Review) "A decade after The Argonauts became the bible of English graduates everywhere, the essays in Like Love arrive to help us understand Nelson's place in a culture where, to her half-delight, she has become such a powerful voice. Spanning two decades

Mini-Interviews. The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #73: Maggie Shipstead. Lucas Loredo. March 2, 2017. I first met Maggie Shipstead in 2011 when she was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. She had not yet published her first novel, Seating Arrangements, which would later become a New York Times bestseller, but even then the magnitude of