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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)

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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

Chloé Cooper Jones on the Exchange of Authenticity Between Memoirist and Reader

Steve Almond on Figuring Out How to Master a Big Plot

David Treuer on Revisiting and Republishing His Debut Novel

Charles Yu: Our Relationship With Time is Changed Forever

Kate Beaton on the Grueling Task of Writing a Picture Book and Her New Memoir

Antoine Wilson on the Time He Saved Someone’s Life (and Didn’t Get a Steak Dinner)

A Shed of One’s Own: Louise Kennedy on the Blissful Semi-Solitude of Her Backyard Writing Space

How Bearing Witness to Nature Helped Me Delve Into History

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