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Stop Obsessing: A Reading List for Finding Joy in Irrelevance

Stop Obsessing: A Reading List for Finding Joy in Irrelevance

Amy Leach on the Freedom of Lightening Up

By Amy Leach | November 16, 2021

Sally J. Pla on Her Journey to Becoming a Children’s Book Author

Sally J. Pla on Her Journey to Becoming a Children’s Book Author

From the New Video Series Authors in the Tent, Hosted by Ona Russell

By The Virtual Book Channel | November 16, 2021

Five Asian Diasporic Writers on the Pandemic Present and the Possibilities of Flash Fiction

Five Asian Diasporic Writers on the Pandemic Present and the Possibilities of Flash Fiction

A Conversation with Sadia Quraeshi Shepard, Jireh Deng, Jemimah Wei, Chen Chen, and Jefferson Lee

By Swati Khurana and Yi Wei | November 15, 2021

Catherine Lacey on Letting Go of the Anxiety and Responding to Current Events in Fiction

Catherine Lacey on Letting Go of the Anxiety and Responding to Current Events in Fiction

In Conversation with Paul Holdengräber on The Quarantine Tapes

By The Quarantine Tapes | November 15, 2021

What Was the First Book You Fell in Love With?

What Was the First Book You Fell in Love With?

The Center for Fiction’s 2021 First Novel Prize Authors Weigh In

By Literary Hub | November 15, 2021

Kalani Pickhart on Writing the Complexities of the 2013 Ukrainian Protests

Kalani Pickhart on Writing the Complexities of the 2013 Ukrainian Protests

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | November 15, 2021

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Mike DeCapite on the Verbal Authenticity of Good Dialogue

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | November 15, 2021

Kyle Lucia Wu on What Novelists Can Learn From Poets

By Kyle Lucia Wu | November 12, 2021

Lenny Abrahamson on Adapting Sally Rooney’s Normal People for TV

By Lenny Abrahamson | November 12, 2021

Jessica Stilling on Writing Her Version of David Copperfield

Jessica Stilling on Writing Her Version of David Copperfield

In Conversation with G.P. Gottlieb on the New Books Network

By New Books Network | November 12, 2021

Amitava Kumar on Writing Fiction in a World of Fake News

Amitava Kumar on Writing Fiction in a World of Fake News

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | November 11, 2021

WATCH: Tracy K. Smith and David Lehman Celebrate <em>The Best American Poetry 2021</em>

WATCH: Tracy K. Smith and David Lehman Celebrate The Best American Poetry 2021

Hosted by Greenlight Bookstore

By The Virtual Book Channel | November 11, 2021

Live at the Red Ink Series: On Writing About Family

Live at the Red Ink Series: On Writing About Family

Featuring Marie-Helene Bertino, Denne Michele Norris, Julie Klam, Qian Julie Wang, and Victoria Chang

By Literary Hub | November 11, 2021

“I’m Not Following the Rules of the American Western.” Tom Lin on Subverting a Genre

“I’m Not Following the Rules of the American Western.” Tom Lin on Subverting a Genre

This Week from the Book Dreams Podcast

By Book Dreams | November 11, 2021

Gregory Pardlo on Trusting What’s on the Other Side of Sobriety... and Poetry

Gregory Pardlo on Trusting What’s on the Other Side of Sobriety... and Poetry

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on the Thresholds Podcast

By Thresholds | November 10, 2021

How Philip Roth Taught Me To Write—And Heal

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