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“Gray Area is What Novels Can Do That Twitter Cannot.” Rebecca Makkai on Incorporating #MeToo in Her New Novel

Idra Novey on the Conjuring of Haunting Characters

Poetry in Three Dimensions: Sarah Ruhl on Bringing the Words of Max Ritvo to the Theater

Jennifer Rosner on Crafting Evocative Historical Fiction That Honors the Past

Editor-Turned-Author Jenny Jackson on the Other Side of the Editorial Process

Gina Frangello on the Editorial Omniscient and Why We Should All Be Using it

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Sarah Thankam Mathews on Her Brush with Mortality and the “Sourdough Starter of Ego Death”

Kathy Fagan on the Poetic Power of “Misusing” Language

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“The Unknown Became the Central Part.” Matthew Vollmer on His New Memoir

“I’m in Communion with Emily Dickinson.” Jennifer Michael Hecht on How to Navigate Our World Through Poetry

“Everything is Riding on Your Author Photo.” Mary Childs on What to Expect When You’re Expecting a Book

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