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10 Women Poets Who Inspired Me To Become a Writer

10 Women Poets Who Inspired Me To Become a Writer

Aija Mayrock Names Hannah Szenes, Lucille Clifton, Qiu Jin, and More

By Aija Mayrock | April 23, 2021

Will Our Next Wave of Fiction Be Escapist, or Corrective?

Will Our Next Wave of Fiction Be Escapist, or Corrective?

This Week on the Literary Disco Podcast

By Literary Disco | April 23, 2021

Why Should You Read?

Why Should You Read?

Will Self Wonders What the Hell We Think We’re Doing

By Will Self | April 22, 2021

Katherine O’Callaghan on the Irish Contexts for Mythical Figure Finn MacCool

Katherine O’Callaghan on the Irish Contexts for Mythical Figure Finn MacCool

This Week on Finnegan and Friends, a Podcast About the Most Mystifying Book Ever Written

By The Cosmic Library | April 22, 2021

Walkin’ While Dead: On Black Horror and Wesley Brown’s <em>Tragic Magic</em>

Walkin’ While Dead: On Black Horror and Wesley Brown’s Tragic Magic

Erica Vital-Lazare Reads the Present in a Novel of the Past

By Erica Vital-Lazare | April 21, 2021

Rereading <em>The Phantom Tollbooth</em> in This Year of Our Pandemic Doldrums

Rereading The Phantom Tollbooth in This Year of Our Pandemic Doldrums

Kate Washington on Norton Juster’s Classic

By Kate Washington | April 21, 2021

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The Excruciating Decision to
End a Cat’s Life

By Martha Cooley | April 21, 2021

On the Places and Poetic Forms of the Black Southern Poet

By Khalisa Rae | April 21, 2021

13 new books to get on Independent Bookstore Day.

By Katie Yee | April 20, 2021

This Wild and Crazy Summer, Give in to the Chaos of Balzac

This Wild and Crazy Summer, Give in to the Chaos of Balzac

Drew Johnson in Praise of a “Disorderly, Conflicted, Brilliant Clod”

By Drew Johnson | April 20, 2021

On the Hazy Line Between Fact and Legend in <em>The Chaneysville Incident</em>

On the Hazy Line Between Fact and Legend in The Chaneysville Incident

Matthew Hunte Guests on the Lit Century Podcast
with Sandra Newman and Catherine Nichols

By Lit Century | April 20, 2021

Ada Limón on Preparing the Body for a Reopened World

Ada Limón on Preparing the Body for a Reopened World

The Challenges of Emerging from Lockdown

By Ada Limón | April 19, 2021

Love Ukraine as You Would the Sun: 10 Ukrainian Books Worth Reading in English

Love Ukraine as You Would the Sun: 10 Ukrainian Books Worth Reading in English

Kate Tsurkan Recommends Andriy Lyubka, Olesya Yaremchuk,
and More

By Kate Tsurkan | April 19, 2021

In Praise of the Graceless Literary Exit: A Reading List

In Praise of the Graceless Literary Exit: A Reading List

KT Sparks Catalogues the Truly Messy, Human Moments

By KT Sparks | April 19, 2021

How the American Civil War Gave Walt Whitman a Call to Action

How the American Civil War Gave Walt Whitman a Call to Action

Mark Edmundson on the Great American Poet as Defender of Democracy

By Mark Edmundson | April 16, 2021

How Black Queer Readers and Writers Nourish the Future

How Black Queer Readers and Writers Nourish the Future

Alexis Pauline Gumbs on the Power of Ancestral Connections

By Alexis Pauline Gumbs | April 16, 2021

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