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Joyce Carol Oates on “Dreaming Back” and Finding Inspiration in Chuck Close

Tom Hanks on What Nora Ephron Told Him About Writing

Resmaa Menakem on White Paralysis and the Hope for an Anti-Racist Culture

Inveterate Runaway Minnie Driver on How She Learned to Spend the Actor’s One True Currency

Geena Rocero on Writing Horse Barbie to Process Her Transition

Why Abbi Jacobson Wants to Keep Making “Inviting Work”

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Hilton Als on Why Joan Didion and James Baldwin Stand Side-by-Side on His Bookshelf

Why David Sedaris Still Keeps His Daily Diary

Ocean Vuong on the Moral Questions of Fiction

“I Didn’t Want to Hear the Word Poetry.” Rupi Kaur on Life After milk & honey

Dave Eggers on Writing from the Subconscious

“Maybe This Means Something.” Min Jin Lee on Vulnerability and Audacity, in Life and on the Page

Jennifer Egan on the Fascinating Interactions Between Technology and Inner Life

Margo Jefferson on the Roots of Criticism

Jenny Odell on the Relationship Between Time and Power

“I’m Pretty Keen on Fact.” Margaret Atwood on the Questions We Must Ask Ourselves

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