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A Stroke Made My Mother a Poet, I Merely Transcribed

A Stroke Made My Mother a Poet, I Merely Transcribed

For Freeman's Marius Chivu on the Origins of His First Poem

By Marius Chivu | October 19, 2017

Breaking Good: Why Artists Remake, Experiment, and Smash Tradition

Breaking Good: Why Artists Remake, Experiment, and Smash Tradition

On Remodeling Not Only the Imperfect, but the Beloved

By Anthony Brandt and David Eagleman | October 19, 2017

The Bluebeard Myth is Forever Relevant

The Bluebeard Myth is Forever Relevant

Catherine Burns on Women Trapped in Abusive Relationships

By Catherine Burns | October 19, 2017

In Writing, We Get to Be Bolder, Riskier, and More Foolish

In Writing, We Get to Be Bolder, Riskier, and More Foolish

Like Following a Mysterious Whistle into a Canyon in the Dead of Night

By Panio Gianopoulos | October 18, 2017

A Day in the Life of a Freelancer

A Day in the Life of a Freelancer

Lorraine Berry on the Way She Tries to Make a Living

By Lorraine Berry | October 18, 2017

America, Land of the Refugee

America, Land of the Refugee

Betsy Carter Rediscovers the Lives of Her Immigrant Parents

By Betsy Carter | October 16, 2017

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By Emily Temple | October 13, 2017

A Selection of Virginia Woolf's Most Savage Insults

By Emily Temple | October 12, 2017

How Paris Turned Me Into a Writer

By Piu Eatwell | October 12, 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
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137 Writers and the Words They're Best Known For

137 Writers and the Words They're Best Known For

Kaveh Akbar Presents a Crowdsourced List of Signature Literary Words

By Kaveh Akbar | October 11, 2017

Watch Karl Ove Knausgaard's Lecture: Why I Write

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Presenting the Key-Note Address for the 2017 Windham-Campbell Prizes

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Why Does Literature Have So Little to Say About Illness?

Why Does Literature Have So Little to Say About Illness?

Meghan O'Rourke on the Need for More Representation

By Meghan O'Rourke | October 5, 2017

The Pure Pleasure of Reading <em>Lolita</em>'s First 100 Pages

The Pure Pleasure of Reading Lolita's First 100 Pages

Hanya Yanagihara on Nabokov's Rich Language

By Hanya Yanagihara | October 4, 2017

Why Digital Note-Taking Will Never Replace the Physical Journal

Why Digital Note-Taking Will Never Replace the Physical Journal

Bradford Morrow on the Gentle Art of Notebooking

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

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Can One Writer Curse Another for Life?

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