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Series, Sagas, Cycles... How About We Call Them

Series, Sagas, Cycles... How About We Call Them "River Novels"?

Kent Wascom: A Different Way of Thinking About Maximalist Storytelling

By Kent Wascom | July 19, 2018

Teaching in a Red County, After Trump

Teaching in a Red County, After Trump

Melissa Febos Asks, "What is More Powerful Than Inspired Youth?"

By Melissa Febos | July 18, 2018

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Identity, Desire, Sex: On Breaking Taboo, in Memoir and in Fiction

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By Literary Hub | July 18, 2018

Don't Take a Free Press for Granted: The Best Journalism in Latin America

Don't Take a Free Press for Granted: The Best Journalism in Latin America

Valeria Luiselli Recommends 19 Publications to Better Understand This Hemisphere

By Valeria Luiselli | July 18, 2018

How Someone Else's Writer's Block Helped Me Write My Novel

How Someone Else's Writer's Block Helped Me Write My Novel

Robert Siegel on Getting the Details Just Right

By Robert Anthony Siegel | July 17, 2018

He Was the Best We'd Ever Seen: On Baseball, Greatness, and Writing

He Was the Best We'd Ever Seen: On Baseball, Greatness, and Writing

Seth Sawyers Wonders Whatever Happened to the Phenom of Allegany County

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