Archive - Woman of Letters

Don’t write for a magazine that is bad

One of the most common pieces of advice for aspiring writers is: “You should read a few issues of a journal before sending them any of your work.”

Jun 30 • Naomi Kanakia

He wanted more attention

About six months ago I read Zoe Dubno’s Happiness and Love. I really adored this book, which is about a young woman, a writer, who goes to a dinner…

Jun 23 • Naomi Kanakia

One of the strange things about subscribing to a newsletter is that you can spend months with an author’s voice, but never learn very basic information…

Jun 16 • Naomi Kanakia

John was a sixteen year old boy who wanted to become a girl.

Jun 11 • Naomi Kanakia

Liberties is a young (less than five years old) intellectual journal that’s based in Washington, D.C.

Jun 9 • Naomi Kanakia

If you let AI do your writing...

Johanna’s job as a producer of literary novels had finally been automated.

Jun 4 • Naomi Kanakia

For the last few weeks, I’ve been reading a journal called The Drift, which is a young (less than five years old) socialist periodical that’s based in…

Jun 2 • Naomi Kanakia

May 2026

My nonfiction book is getting a second printing

Thanks to everyone who came to my NYC event on Wednesday night.

May 29 • Naomi Kanakia

More important than my book's release

Many years ago, I read a book called The Lonely Crowd by sociologist David Riesman.

May 26 • Naomi Kanakia

I loved Gone Girl. I read the book in 2013, shortly after it came out, and just felt a pure and uncomplicated passion for it—I enjoyed seeing the…

May 19 • Naomi Kanakia

NYC event on May 27th @ McNally Jackson Seaport

My book, What’s So Great About The Great Books?, is coming out on May 26th.

May 16 • Naomi Kanakia

This year's trendy new thinker

Apparently, reading scores are down not just in America but throughout the world. This means that, on average, contemporary young people have lower…

May 12 • Naomi Kanakia

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