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On the Peace and Pleasure of Reading Books About Babies as a New Mother

Ellyn Gaydos on William Carlos Williams, Annie Ernaux, and More

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall and Lee Wind on Championing Marginalized Characters

Maggie Tokuda-Hall and Lee Wind on Championing Marginalized Characters

From the Memoir Nation Podcast, Hosted by Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner

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The Case for Renaming Kafka’s <em>Metamorphosis</em> as <em>The Transformation</em>

The Case for Renaming Kafka’s Metamorphosis as The Transformation

Mark Harman Digs into the History and Linguistic Choices of Translating an Uncanny Classic

By Mark Harman | August 8, 2025

Jessica Gross on Writing a New York Novel as an Ex-New Yorker

Jessica Gross on Writing a New York Novel as an Ex-New Yorker

How to Get Back in a New York State of Mind

By Jessica Gross | August 8, 2025

Am I the Literary Asshole For Prioritizing My Writing Over the People in My Life?

Am I the Literary Asshole For Prioritizing My Writing Over the People in My Life?

Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior

By Kristen Arnett | August 7, 2025

The Annotated Nightstand: What Chloe Caldwell Is Reading Now, and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Chloe Caldwell Is Reading Now, and Next

Featuring Sheila Heti, Yiyun Li, Hala Alyan, and Others

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Khadijah Queen on What It’s Like to Write Poetry on a Naval Destroyer

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How Tochi Eze Found Her Writing Voice in Igbo Folklore

How Tochi Eze Found Her Writing Voice in Igbo Folklore

“Myth is not just fabrication or metaphor, it is method and craft.”

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On the Joy of Building a Sci-Fi World with a Korean Inflection

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Elaine U. Cho: “If you want to belong to the world, you’ll have to pick up on its lingo.”

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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

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

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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

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

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

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Ed Park on Trusting the Generative Mind

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