A few years ago, I started teaching a class on trauma. The concept is everywhere these days, so the main challenge in building the syllabus was not what to put in but what to leave out. Yet there was ...

Syracuse, NY — ProPublica has published a damning account of how Syracuse authorities bungled the 1981 investigation into Alice Sebold’s rape. The injustice was only revealed in 2021, two decades ...

The Almost Moon (Little, Brown) Alice Sebold wrote The Lovely Bones, one of the most beloved and lovable books in recent years. How did she prepare herself for the onslaught she'll face with The ...

Sociopaths tend to be charismatic. Alice Sebold’s new novel, The Almost Moon, suffers from a fatal flaw: Its unbalanced narrator, Helen, is more of a kvetcher than a compelling monster. Sebold’s two ...

This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today. Listen 0:00 Author Alice Sebold has ...

The note she placed above her desk as she was writing the novel was an admonition of what she needed to remember in the midst of telling what could have been a grim story. But the note also captured ...

Our world is lousy with writers. Right now, as you read this, writers are toiling away in their studies or in their garages or in masters' programs or at the MacDowell Colony, and they're all ...

Man Wrongfully Accused of Author Alice Sebold’s Rape Exonerated After 40 Years“My goal in 1982 was justice — not to perpetuate injustice,” Alice Sebold has written in a statement.