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How Writers Write Characters Who Are Writers Writing About Themselves; Or, But Is It Autofiction?

How Writers Write Characters Who Are Writers Writing About Themselves; Or, But Is It Autofiction?

Megan Cummins Explores the Porous Borders of Narrativizing Oneself on the Open Road

By Megan Cummins | August 5, 2025

Why a Nineteenth-Century Scandal of Class and Identity Still Speaks to Us

Why a Nineteenth-Century Scandal of Class and Identity Still Speaks to Us

Nell Stevens on the Tichborne Claimant Fraud and Creating the Possibility of a Different World Through Fiction

By Nell Stevens | August 4, 2025

A Happy One-Trick Multi-Book Pony: On Writing Novels About Art History

A Happy One-Trick Multi-Book Pony: On Writing Novels About Art History

B.A. Shapiro Follows Her Literary Footsteps Through Storied Museums

By B.A. Shapiro | August 4, 2025

How Witi Ihimaera’s <em>The Whale Rider</em> Helped Introduce Maori Literature to the World

How Witi Ihimaera’s The Whale Rider Helped Introduce Maori Literature to the World

Shilo Kino on the Novel That Represented and Reconnected New Zealand’s Indigenous People

By Shilo Kino | August 4, 2025

Ed Park on Trusting the Generative Mind

Ed Park on Trusting the Generative Mind

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Jane Alison and Jeannine Ouellette on Craft and Form

Jane Alison and Jeannine Ouellette on Craft and Form

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The Art of Lying: Kate Weinberg on the Similarities Between Fibs and Fiction

The Art of Lying: Kate Weinberg on the Similarities Between Fibs and Fiction

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The Annotated Nightstand: What Daniel Saldaña Paris is Reading Now, and Next

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Ha Jin on the Transcendent and Universal Power of Artistic Practice

“In literature I have found a landscape or galaxy that is vaster and more enduring than a country or a state.”

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Margaret Busby on Jazz, Africa, and the Endurance of Jayne Cortez’s Disruptive Poetry

The Editor of “Firespitter: The Collected Poems of Jayne Cortez” in Conversation with Poets.org

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