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Puncturing a Dream: On the Dark-Edged Fantasy of the Ballerina and Traditional Femininity

Puncturing a Dream: On the Dark-Edged Fantasy of the Ballerina and Traditional Femininity

Rachel Kapelke-Dale Revisits the End of Her Former Life in Dance

By Rachel Kapelke-Dale | December 10, 2021

Cara Blue Adams on How to Build a Short Story Collection

Cara Blue Adams on How to Build a Short Story Collection

What Does a Collection Offer that a Single Story Cannot?

By Cara Blue Adams | December 10, 2021

Elliot Ackerman on Exploring US-China Relations in His New Book

Elliot Ackerman on Exploring US-China Relations in His New Book

In Conversation with Rob Wolf on the New Books Network

By New Books Network | December 10, 2021

Roisin Kiberd on the Solipsism of Social Media

Roisin Kiberd on the Solipsism of Social Media

In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | December 9, 2021

Secrets of the Sea: On the Hidden Past of Orford Ness and the Residue of Human Destruction

Secrets of the Sea: On the Hidden Past of Orford Ness and the Residue of Human Destruction

Polly Crosby Revisits Her Childhood in a Small Village in Suffolk, England

By Polly Crosby | December 9, 2021

Katie Kitamura on the Discomfort of Calling Herself a Writer

Katie Kitamura on the Discomfort of Calling Herself a Writer

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on the Thresholds Podcast

By Thresholds | December 8, 2021

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Denise Williams on Interrogating “Guilty Pleasures”

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Janice Lee on the Interconnectedness of Suffering

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | December 6, 2021

Paul Auster on the Poem He Can’t Get Out of His Head

By The Literary Life | December 3, 2021

Priyanka Sacheti on the Complexities of Unbelonging

Priyanka Sacheti on the Complexities of Unbelonging

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By The Common | December 3, 2021

Emerald Fennell on <em>Promising Young Woman</em> and Writing After Winning an Oscar

Emerald Fennell on Promising Young Woman and Writing After Winning an Oscar

In Conversation with Gemma Cairney at the Hay Fest Winter Weekend

By The Virtual Book Channel | December 3, 2021

Jeanne Matthews on the Lasting Impacts of the Civil War on Her Characters in <em>Devil by the Tail</em>

Jeanne Matthews on the Lasting Impacts of the Civil War on Her Characters in Devil by the Tail

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

By New Books Network | December 3, 2021

Pamela Paul and Cecilia Kang on the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of the Internet

Pamela Paul and Cecilia Kang on the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of the Internet

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | December 2, 2021

The Ironic Twist of Age: What It’s Like to Keep Writing at 91

The Ironic Twist of Age: What It’s Like to Keep Writing at 91

Hilma Wolitzer on Finding Creative Drive Later in Life

By Hilma Wolitzer | December 2, 2021

Jocelyn Nicole Johnson on the Ways We Replicate Thomas Jefferson’s Sins

Jocelyn Nicole Johnson on the Ways We Replicate Thomas Jefferson’s Sins

In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | December 2, 2021

Rebecca Donner on Writing History in the Present Tense

Rebecca Donner on Writing History in the Present Tense

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | December 2, 2021

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