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Pat Barker: To Be a Writer You Must Resist the Urge to Clean

Pat Barker: To Be a Writer You Must Resist the Urge to Clean

The Author of The Silence of the Girls on the Books in Her Life

By Pat Barker | September 5, 2018

Lydia Kiesling Wants to Rewrite the Myths of the American West

Lydia Kiesling Wants to Rewrite the Myths of the American West

On Her Novel of Borders, Open Spaces, Closed Homes, and Family

By Nick Ripatrazone | September 5, 2018

Gary Shteyngart: Middle-Aged People Need Weird Hobbies to Exercise Their Dying Brains

Gary Shteyngart: Middle-Aged People Need Weird Hobbies to Exercise Their Dying Brains

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By Literary Hub | September 4, 2018

Wandering Through the Uncanny Valley of Laura van den Berg's Fictions

Wandering Through the Uncanny Valley of Laura van den Berg's Fictions

The Author of The Third Hotel Talks to Adrian Van Young

By Adrian Van Young | August 23, 2018

Ada Limón on Kanye West, Womanhood, Truth in Poetry, and More

Ada Limón on Kanye West, Womanhood, Truth in Poetry, and More

The Author Of The Carrying in Conversation with Steph Opitz

By Steph Opitz | August 23, 2018

Ben Marcus: Writer's Block Happens When I'm Boring

Ben Marcus: Writer's Block Happens When I'm Boring

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