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Jesse David Fox On Cheap Laughs

Jesse David Fox On Cheap Laughs

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | November 2, 2023

Dancing with the Goddess and Drawing Down the Moon: A Reading List for Modern Witches

Dancing with the Goddess and Drawing Down the Moon: A Reading List for Modern Witches

Diana Helmuth Recommends Margot Adler, Lorraine Monteagut, Starhawk, and More

By Diana Helmuth | October 31, 2023

“A monster can look like whatever it wants”: On the Allure of Literary Monsters

“A monster can look like whatever it wants”: On the Allure of Literary Monsters

Adrian Van Young on the Monstrous Stories That Shaped Him

By Adrian Van Young | October 31, 2023

What Are Thriller Writers Truly Afraid Of?

What Are Thriller Writers Truly Afraid Of?

Danielle Trussoni Talks with Four Authors on How Their Fears Make it into Their Fiction

By Danielle Trussoni | October 31, 2023

“Leisure, Labor, Reticence, Violence”: What Horror Films Can Teach Us About Poetry

“Leisure, Labor, Reticence, Violence”: What Horror Films Can Teach Us About Poetry

Justin Phillip Reed Considers Craft and Alienation on the Screen and on the Page

By Justin Phillip Reed | October 31, 2023

Michael Lewis on Watching Sam Bankman-Fried

Michael Lewis on Watching Sam Bankman-Fried

This Week on the Talk Easy Podcast with Sam Fragoso

By Talk Easy | October 31, 2023

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Tim O'Brien on Letting the World Decide What He'll Read Next

By Literary Hub | October 30, 2023

Isabel Cañas on the Gothic and Drawing from Everyday Monsters

By Memoir Nation | October 30, 2023

Patty Crane on Translation and Influence

By Patty Crane | October 27, 2023

Fact, Fiction, and Film: Jeremy Cooper on Creating Verisimilitude

Fact, Fiction, and Film: Jeremy Cooper on Creating Verisimilitude

"Like an iceberg, more lies below the surface than is visible on the printed page."

By Jeremy Cooper | October 26, 2023

Molly McGhee on the Importance of Acknowledgments

Molly McGhee on the Importance of Acknowledgments

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | October 26, 2023

Magic to Serve, Not Solve, a Story: KJ Dell'Antonia on Magical Rules in Literature

Magic to Serve, Not Solve, a Story: KJ Dell'Antonia on Magical Rules in Literature

On Vampires, Witches, and the (Literary) Craft of the (Magickal) Craft

By KJ Dell'Antonia | October 25, 2023

Enough “How-To” Books: It’s Time For More “How-Come”

Enough “How-To” Books: It’s Time For More “How-Come”

Jessica Elefante on Books for Understanding Contemporary Life

By Jessica Elefante | October 25, 2023

Christopher Kennedy on Defining Prose Poetry and Working-Class Stories

Christopher Kennedy on Defining Prose Poetry and Working-Class Stories

Peter Mishler Talks to the Author of The Strange God Who Makes Us

By Peter Mishler | October 25, 2023

Nonfiction That Rivals <em>Little Women</em>: The Forgotten Essays of Louisa May Alcott

Nonfiction That Rivals Little Women: The Forgotten Essays of Louisa May Alcott

Liz Rosenberg on the Literary Marvels of Alcott's Memoirs

By Liz Rosenberg | October 24, 2023

Jhumpa Lahiri on the Freedom of Writing

Jhumpa Lahiri on the Freedom of Writing

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