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Russell Banks on the Time He Fled Bread Loaf with Nelson Algren

Russell Banks on the Time He Fled Bread Loaf with Nelson Algren

Algren Got Fired, Banks Made a Friend

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Kashana Cauley: “I Tell Jokes About Things That I Am Angry About.”

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“Just Fade to White, Dear.” Aminatta Forna Remembers Fay Weldon

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“Biography as a form is necessarily artificial. In the end, all biography is a form of fiction.”

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The Sanctity of a Journal: On Private Writing in the Age of Public Content

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