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The Ghosts of Literary Greatness That Forever Haunt Paris

The Ghosts of Literary Greatness That Forever Haunt Paris

From Balzac to Max Jacob, a Pilgrimage to Bygone Genius

By Peter Wortsman | December 5, 2017

On Our Love-Hate Relationship with Punctuation

On Our Love-Hate Relationship with Punctuation

Why So Much Anger for the Semicolon?

By Stephen Spector | December 5, 2017

Love and Death at the Library with the Astro Poets

Love and Death at the Library with the Astro Poets

"I had that nervous date feeling, like you were all a giant Earth sign”

By Kyle Lucia Wu | December 1, 2017

How I Turned My Discarded Novel Drafts Into an AI

How I Turned My Discarded Novel Drafts Into an AI

Could a Computer Learn to Imitate Me?

By Kirsten Menger-Anderson | November 30, 2017

Inside Vladimir Nabokov's Dream Journal

Inside Vladimir Nabokov's Dream Journal

"Several dreams, one of them keenly erotic..."

By Vladimir Nabokov | November 30, 2017

Encountering My Son's Older Doppelganger

Encountering My Son's Older Doppelganger

Ashley Hay on the Scandinavian Concept of Vardøger

By Ashley Hay | November 30, 2017

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James Salter: Why I Write

By James Salter | November 29, 2017

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By Renee Simms | November 29, 2017

The Dangerous Lure of Writing For White Readers in an MFA

By Aisha Sabatini Sloan | November 28, 2017

How 11 Writers Organize Their Personal Libraries

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You can't put Pynchon next to Plato (Unless They're Both Pink)

By Emily Temple | November 21, 2017

Adrian McKinty Tries to Get Some Writing Done in Kafka's Old Office

Adrian McKinty Tries to Get Some Writing Done in Kafka's Old Office

On Literary Osmosis and the Perils of Trying to Write in Famous Places

By Adrian McKinty | November 21, 2017

See the Detailed Diagrams Kathy Acker Drew of Her Dreams

See the Detailed Diagrams Kathy Acker Drew of Her Dreams

Two Dream Maps from Blood and Guts in High School

By Literary Hub | November 20, 2017

Garth Risk Hallberg on Updating His Debut Novella—10 Years Later

Garth Risk Hallberg on Updating His Debut Novella—10 Years Later

A Field Guide to the North American Family, then and now

By Garth Risk Hallberg | November 17, 2017

Charles Bukowski Wrote So Fast His Publisher Couldn’t Keep Up

Charles Bukowski Wrote So Fast His Publisher Couldn’t Keep Up

On Trying to Get a Poet to Make Copies of His Poems

By Abel Debritto | November 17, 2017

Susan Sontag on Being a Writer:

Susan Sontag on Being a Writer: "You Have to Be Obsessed"

And other insights on craft from the legendary critic and novelist

By Emily Temple | November 15, 2017

Counting Feet: On Running and Poetic Meter

Counting Feet: On Running and Poetic Meter

The Library and the Track Have More in Common Than You Might Think

By Chris Townsend | November 15, 2017

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