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Ta-Nehisi Coates on the Intimate Evil of Enslavement

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Charles Wright's Resistance Against Certainty

Mary Szybist on the Poetics of Her Former Teacher

 
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Inès Cagnati: The Insider Who Always Felt Like an Outsider

Liesl Schillinger on the French Novelist Who Wrote
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By Liesl Schillinger  December 5, 2019

Susan Choi on Winning the National Book Award (and She Loves Cats: The Musical!)

The Author of Trust Exercise on The Maris Review

 
By The Maris Review  December 5, 2019

Ann and Jeff VanderMeer Talk Classic Fantasy, Fearsome Ducks, and Dead Astronauts

Live from the Miami Book Fair with Fiction/Non/Fiction

 
By Fiction Non Fiction  December 5, 2019

On the Ambitious Beginnings of China's Influential Soong Sisters

Jung Chang Recounts Ei-Ling Soongs' First Journey to America

 
By Jung Chang  December 5, 2019
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