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I Saw My Novel's Protagonist Walking Across the Street

I Saw My Novel's Protagonist Walking Across the Street

Dana Czapnik on Finding Creations in Unexpected Places

By Dana Czapnik | January 28, 2019

Are These Bad Habits Creeping Into Your Writing?

Are These Bad Habits Creeping Into Your Writing?

Benjamin Dreyer, the Internet's Copy Editor in Chief, Would Rather You Didn't

By Benjamin Dreyer | January 25, 2019

Deconstructing Old Stories to Tell Them in New Ways

Deconstructing Old Stories to Tell Them in New Ways

Daisy Johnson on the Limits of the Wholly New

By Daisy Johnson | January 25, 2019

What Was Virginia Woolf Like as a Child?

What Was Virginia Woolf Like as a Child?

Your First Clue: Her Nickname Was "the Goat"

By Emily Temple | January 25, 2019

How Virginia Woolf Taught Me to Mourn

How Virginia Woolf Taught Me to Mourn

Two Writers Grieving for a Parent, a Century Apart

By Katharine Smyth | January 25, 2019

Lawrence Ferlinghetti on the Cusp of 100

Lawrence Ferlinghetti on the Cusp of 100

Friends and Co-Workers Reflect on the Poet-Publisher's Legacy

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A Literary Outpost on the End of Long Island

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Where New York's Literary Single Girls Lived

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Rediscovering Reading After Graduate School Nearly Destroyed It

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Alice Munro Helped Me Finish My Story  (And I Didn't Even Know It)

Alice Munro Helped Me Finish My Story (And I Didn't Even Know It)

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