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A Selection of Virginia Woolf's Most Savage Insults

A Selection of Virginia Woolf's Most Savage Insults

Marmoreal, Uncooked, Inarticulate, Pimpled, Unrefined, Limp

By Emily Temple | October 12, 2017

The 2017 MacArthur

The 2017 MacArthur "Genius" Grant Winners in Literature

Viet Thanh Nguyen, Jesmyn Ward, and Annie Baker: Now Official Geniuses

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

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  • Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution

Announcing the Winners of the 2017 Dayton Literary Peace Prize

By Emily Temple | October 3, 2017

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

By Emily Temple | October 2, 2017

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

By Emily Temple | September 29, 2017

Read 10 of the Best Stories Ever Published in <em>Playboy</em>

Read 10 of the Best Stories Ever Published in Playboy

From J.G. Ballard to Gabriel García Márquez to Bharati Mukherjee

By Emily Temple | September 29, 2017

Literary Highlights from Everyone's Favorite Wedding Column

Literary Highlights from Everyone's Favorite Wedding Column

Or: Old Gossip is Still Good Gossip

By Emily Temple | September 28, 2017

10 Songs for J.G. Ballard's Post-Apocalyptic Vision of a Future London

10 Songs for J.G. Ballard's Post-Apocalyptic Vision of a Future London

Playlist for a Classic Novel: The Drowned World

By Emily Temple | September 27, 2017

8 Notable Attempts to Hack the <em>New York Times</em> Bestseller List

8 Notable Attempts to Hack the New York Times Bestseller List

Surprise: Republican Politicians Also Cheat at Book Sales

By Emily Temple | September 26, 2017

20 Pieces of Writing Advice from William Faulkner

20 Pieces of Writing Advice from William Faulkner

"Don't be 'a writer' but instead be writing."

By Emily Temple | September 25, 2017

12 Literary Writers on Stephen King's Influence

12 Literary Writers on Stephen King's Influence

Happy Birthday to the King of Horror

By Emily Temple | September 21, 2017

The Reading Lists Hidden Inside 12 Great Books

The Reading Lists Hidden Inside 12 Great Books

Or: Some Books That Mention a Lot of Other Books

By Emily Temple | September 20, 2017

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