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When Setting Trumps Character

When Setting Trumps Character

Great Writing About Place

By Tobias Carroll | November 23, 2015

80 Books No Woman Should Read

80 Books No Woman Should Read

Rebecca Solnit Tries to Kill a Zombie

By Rebecca Solnit | November 18, 2015

Ordinary Paris and the Art of Noticing

Ordinary Paris and the Art of Noticing

On Seeing Georges Perec's Infraordinary World

By Lauren Elkin | November 17, 2015

The Ever-Expanding World of David Mitchell

The Ever-Expanding World of David Mitchell

One Novel Out of Many, Filled With Eternally Recurring Characters

By Jonathan Russell Clark | November 16, 2015

Why We Read (And Write) Short Stories

Why We Read (And Write) Short Stories

Lorrie Moore on the form "second to none in power and efficiency"

By Lorrie Moore | November 6, 2015

Digging Through Kathy Acker’s Stuff

Digging Through Kathy Acker’s Stuff

Dodie Bellamy on the Intimacy of Wearing Acker's Clothes and Words

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True Confessions of an Auto-Fictionist

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