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Meet National Book Award Finalist Robin Benway

Meet National Book Award Finalist Robin Benway

The author of Far from the Tree on family, Joni Mitchell, and writer's block

By Emily Temple | October 30, 2017

33 Joan Didion Book Covers, Ranked

33 Joan Didion Book Covers, Ranked

The List You Never Knew You Always Needed

By Emily Temple | October 27, 2017

6 Famous Writers Injured While Writing

6 Famous Writers Injured While Writing

When Making Stuff is Hazardous to Your Health

By Emily Temple | October 25, 2017

George Saunders Wins the 2017 Man Booker Prize

George Saunders Wins the 2017 Man Booker Prize

Complete with £50,000 and Everlasting International Glory

By Emily Temple | October 17, 2017

Scary Literary Fiction for People Who Hate Horror

Scary Literary Fiction for People Who Hate Horror

But still want some chills and thrills in this, our spookiest season

By Emily Temple | October 17, 2017

14 Classic Works of Literature Hated By Famous Authors

14 Classic Works of Literature Hated By Famous Authors

"I got a little bored after a time. I mean, the road seemed to be awfully long."

By Emily Temple | October 16, 2017

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Art Inspired by Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities

By Emily Temple | October 13, 2017

A Selection of Virginia Woolf's Most Savage Insults

By Emily Temple | October 12, 2017

The 2017 MacArthur "Genius" Grant Winners in Literature

By Emily Temple | October 11, 2017

Katherine Mansfield on the Thrilling Joy of Creation

Katherine Mansfield on the Thrilling Joy of Creation

and your knees become apples, too?"">"When you paint apples do you feel that your breasts
and your knees become apples, too?"

By Emily Temple | October 11, 2017

40 of the Creepiest Book Covers of All Time

40 of the Creepiest Book Covers of All Time

Open if You Dare

By Emily Temple | October 6, 2017

The 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature Goes to Kazuo Ishiguro

The 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature Goes to Kazuo Ishiguro

Author of Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go

By Emily Temple | October 5, 2017

10 Tales of Manuscript Burning (And Some That Survived)

10 Tales of Manuscript Burning (And Some That Survived)

A Brief History of Bibliocide

By Emily Temple | October 4, 2017

Announcing the Winners of the 2017 Dayton Literary Peace Prize

Announcing the Winners of the 2017 Dayton Literary Peace Prize

The only international literary peace prize awarded in the United States

By Emily Temple | October 3, 2017

Read William S. Burroughs's Hate Letter to Truman Capote

Read William S. Burroughs's Hate Letter to Truman Capote

Can One Writer Curse Another for Life?

By Emily Temple | October 2, 2017

Carson McCullers on Suicide, Psychiatry and the Mind of the Artist

Carson McCullers on Suicide, Psychiatry and the Mind of the Artist

"I think I don't believe very much in psychotherapy for creative people."

By Emily Temple | September 29, 2017

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