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Tracy K. Smith on Pursuing a Reconfiguration of the American Imagination

Steve Almond on the Writer’s Ego

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The Best American Novelist to Disappear (And Come Back) Twice

Serena Burdick on Her Novel’s Seventeen-Year Journey to Publication

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Dani Shapiro on the Fifteen Year Journey of Signal Fires

Alastair Reynolds on Trying to Encompass the Entire History of Science Fiction in One Novel

The Author of Election on the Election: Tom Perrotta Talks Tracy Flick’s Return and the Midterms

Nick Drnaso: Can You Write Good Characters That Don’t Share Your Worldview?

Megan Abbott on Writing for the Reader

Confronting the South’s Tradition of Racist Terror

Azar Nafisi on How Both Writers and Tyrants Recreate Reality

Andrew Sean Greer on the Benefits of Winning the Pulitzer Prize (and Not Having to Schmooze)

The Long and the Short of It: Hilma Wolitzer on Returning to Short Fiction in Her 90s

An Ode to Harriet the Spy, the Art Monster of East End Avenue

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