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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

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

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

Shayla Lawson: It Is Not Your Job to Fix White People

By Shayla Lawson | July 1, 2020

Why Do Some Mathematicians Think They’re Poets?

Why Do Some Mathematicians Think They’re Poets?

Susan D'Agostino on the Search for Symmetry

By Susan D’Agostino | July 1, 2020

In Praise of the Dream-Logic of Speculative Fiction

In Praise of the Dream-Logic of Speculative Fiction

Sophie Mackintosh on the Art That Takes Us Into Uncharted Territory

By Sophie MacKintosh | June 30, 2020

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

How Photographing a Dumb Paper Bag Led to Writing
a Novel

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

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Wandering Through Literary Lisbon in Search of Pessoa's Disquiet

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

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

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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

By Emily Temple | June 16, 2020

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

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Sharon Harrigan Recommends Stories Told From the Collective Perspective

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How Do You Write About a Woman Who Loathed the Spotlight?

How Do You Write About a Woman Who Loathed the Spotlight?

Alice Miller on Georgie Hyde-Lees, Who Was Married to a Famous Irish Poet

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On the Radical Afterlives of William Wordsworth

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A Poet Who Inspired a Generation of Naturalists and Artists

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In Praise of Digression, Both Literary and Culinary

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Thom Eagle on 'Being Alive to Other Possibilities'

By Thom Eagle | June 5, 2020

Sejal Shah on the Tricky Work of Giving Shape to an Essay Collection

Sejal Shah on the Tricky Work of Giving Shape to an Essay Collection

Anjali Enjeti in Conversation with the Author of This Is One Way to Dance

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My Detroit Novel Was Shelved Until the Millennials Came

My Detroit Novel Was Shelved Until the Millennials Came

Michael Zadoorian on Writing About Detroit's "Creative Class"

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