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Szilvia Molnar on Knowing When to Kill Your Darlings

Szilvia Molnar on Knowing When to Kill Your Darlings

“I sometimes pulled back on reality. But, on the page, I gave close to everything.”

By Szilvia Molnar | March 21, 2023

I'll See You in Frankfurt: On Missing the Biggest Bookish Gathering in the World

I'll See You in Frankfurt: On Missing the Biggest Bookish Gathering in the World

A Choral Ode to the Before Times

By Szilvia Molnar | October 15, 2020

How Deborah Levy is Getting Me Through New Motherhood

How Deborah Levy is Getting Me Through New Motherhood

On Sleepless Nights and Dreams of My Own Shed

By Szilvia Molnar | March 7, 2019

On Book Publishing's Drinking Culture

On Book Publishing's Drinking Culture

What If We Didn't Drink at Every Single Event?

By Szilvia Molnar | December 6, 2017

Me and JT LeRoy: On Anonymity and Queer Art

Me and JT LeRoy: On Anonymity and Queer Art

Szilvia Molnar Remembers the Books That Helped Her Escape

By Szilvia Molnar | September 15, 2016

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