Pamela Erens is the author of the novels Eleven Hours, The Virgins, and The Understory, all from Tin House Books. She has been a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing, and the John Gardner Fiction Book Award. Erens's essays and criticism have appeared in publications including The New York Times, Virginia Quarterly Review, Slate, The Millions, Aeon, Vogue, and Elle.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES

Middlemarch and Me
In Middlemarch, George Eliot always seemed to suggest that emotional narrowness is a tragedy rather than a sin....

The Poet and the Stalker: On James Lasdun's "Give Me Everything You Have"
THE KIND OF STALKING described in James Lasdun’s meditative new memoir, Give Me Everything You Have, is new in ...

Is The Atlantic Making Us Stupid?
On the magazine’s frequent, and frequently controversial, articles about gender issues....
