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Maggie Smith on Embracing Imperfection, in Life and Art

Maggie Smith on Embracing Imperfection, in Life and Art

“The mistake, in fact, is a gift. The break, or breakdown, allows for a breakthrough.”

By Maggie Smith | April 4, 2025

Memory, Care, Protection: Crystal Hana Kim on the Many Uses of Food

Memory, Care, Protection: Crystal Hana Kim on the Many Uses of Food

“To pay attention to the meal in front of you is to commit your hope and faith.”

By Crystal Hana Kim | April 4, 2025

Exploring the Traumas of the Armenian Genocide

Exploring the Traumas of the Armenian Genocide

Nancy Kricorian on Memorializing Her Armenian Grandmother in a Novel

By Nancy Kricorian | April 4, 2025

In Which a Couple of Actual Literary Assholes Make an Appearance

In Which a Couple of Actual Literary Assholes Make an Appearance

Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Literary Behavior

By Kristen Arnett | April 3, 2025

More Than Just a Toy: What an Old Dollhouse Taught Me About Storytelling and Family

More Than Just a Toy: What an Old Dollhouse Taught Me About Storytelling and Family

Elise Hooper: “In a world that feels increasingly troubling and out of control, the dollhouse is where my mother and I are at our best together.”

By Elise Hooper | April 3, 2025

Fighting for One’s Fiction: How Norman Mailer Taught Me to Defend My Plots

Fighting for One’s Fiction: How Norman Mailer Taught Me to Defend My Plots

Anthony Giardina Explores “Advertisements for Myself” and a Controversial Author’s Legacy

By Anthony Giardina | April 2, 2025

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Can Writers Ever Remember How to Read For Fun?

By Amy Shearn | April 1, 2025

On the Challenge of Writing a Sequel to a Twenty-Year-Old Novel

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Art, Liberty, Diverse Voices: Six Poets on Why University Presses Are Critical for Poetry

By Literary Hub | March 31, 2025

Karen Russell on What the Magic Offers

Karen Russell on What the Magic Offers

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By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | March 31, 2025

Kate McKean on Your Feelings About Publishing

Kate McKean on Your Feelings About Publishing

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Dancing on the Page: Sulaiman Addonia on Writing in the Footsteps of Pina Bausch

Dancing on the Page: Sulaiman Addonia on Writing in the Footsteps of Pina Bausch

“I could sense the freedom, yet I didn’t dare to march towards it.”

By Sulaiman Addonia | March 28, 2025

How Tennis Helped Me Manage the Competitive Beast That Was Ruining My Writing

How Tennis Helped Me Manage the Competitive Beast That Was Ruining My Writing

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya on Finding Balance Between Drive and Acceptance

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Earthquake Anxiety: <br>Living—and Writing—in Fear of the Big One

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Emma Pattee on Capturing the Human Feeling of Disaster

By Emma Pattee | March 27, 2025

Poet, Mystic, Warrior, Visionary: Reimagining the Life and Art of an Aztec Ruler Lost in Myth

Poet, Mystic, Warrior, Visionary: Reimagining the Life and Art of an Aztec Ruler Lost in Myth

Ilan Stavans Resurrects Nezahualcóyotl from Fragments of Fact and Fiction

By Ilan Stavans | March 27, 2025

Sabrina Imbler on the Power of Collectivity

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