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I Wrote My Memoir for the Same Reasons I Went to the Shooting Range

I Wrote My Memoir for the Same Reasons I Went to the Shooting Range

Lacy Crawford on How People Can Let Themselves Be Silenced

By Lacy Crawford | July 8, 2020

On Saul Bellow's Celebration of the Messy and Manic

On Saul Bellow's Celebration of the Messy and Manic

Brian Castleberry Rereads the Man Who Taught Him to Write

By Brian Castleberry | July 7, 2020

Writing My Own

Writing My Own "Indian-American Novel" Meant Looking to California

Sameer Pandya on the Virtues of a Late Start

By Sameer Pandya | July 7, 2020

Lynn Steger Strong Wants You to Look Harder

Lynn Steger Strong Wants You to Look Harder

The Author of Want In Conversation with Brian Gresko

By Brian Gresko | July 6, 2020

Even Seamus Heaney <br>Made Mistakes

Even Seamus Heaney
Made Mistakes

On Poetry, Wordsworth, and Misremembering

By Erica McAlpine | July 6, 2020

Every Great Writer is a Great Deceiver: Vladimir Nabokov's Best Writing Advice

Every Great Writer is a Great Deceiver: Vladimir Nabokov's Best Writing Advice

"Style is not a tool, it is not a method, it is not a choice of words alone."

By Emily Temple | July 2, 2020

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To Poets of Color Whose Work Has Been Called 'Healing'

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In Praise of the Dream-Logic of Speculative Fiction

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How Photographing a Dumb Paper Bag Led to Writing <br>a Novel

How Photographing a Dumb Paper Bag Led to Writing
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Anna Cox on the Radical Act of Being Seen

By Anna Cox | June 26, 2020

How Flight Embodies Our Deepest Yearning

How Flight Embodies Our Deepest Yearning

Richard Farrell on Writing, Yearning, Flying, and Falling

By Richard Farrell | June 25, 2020

Wandering Through Literary Lisbon in Search of Pessoa's Disquiet

Wandering Through Literary Lisbon in Search of Pessoa's Disquiet

Thomas Swick on the Unlikely Success of a Summer Writing Program

By Thomas Swick | June 24, 2020

I Can't Believe Readers Are Still Getting Upset Over F*cking Swearing

I Can't Believe Readers Are Still Getting Upset Over F*cking Swearing

In Which Amy Poeppel Uses Some Very Bad Words

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Someone is Wrong on the Internet: A Study in Pandemic Distraction

Someone is Wrong on the Internet: A Study in Pandemic Distraction

Irina Dumitrescu is Prepared to Do Anything So As Not to Do Something

By Irina Dumitrescu | June 19, 2020

Emily Temple on Translating a Decade of Internet Writing into a Debut Novel

Emily Temple on Translating a Decade of Internet Writing into a Debut Novel

Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the List

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Changing Me to We: We Should All Try Writing in the First Person Plural

Changing Me to We: We Should All Try Writing in the First Person Plural

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