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If a Bear Shows Up in the First Act, He Better Eat Someone in the Second

If a Bear Shows Up in the First Act, He Better Eat Someone in the Second

Tom Bouman on the Use of Man-Eating Bears in Fiction

By Tom Bouman | June 27, 2017

When a Lifelong Editor Becomes a Novelist

When a Lifelong Editor Becomes a Novelist

What I Learned on the Other Side of the Desk

By Karen Rinaldi | June 23, 2017

Reading Across America: Making Things Political

Reading Across America: Making Things Political

Natalka Burian on Creating Lit Scenes That Can Do Some Good

By Natalka Burian | June 23, 2017

10 Famous Book Hoarders

10 Famous Book Hoarders

Karl Lagerfeld Has More Books Than You

By Emily Temple | June 22, 2017

A Tourist in My Own Book

A Tourist in My Own Book

A Midwesterner Writes the Caribbean

By Rebecca Entel | June 22, 2017

Lunch with Beckett, Drinks with Genet, and a Lifelong Love of Books

Lunch with Beckett, Drinks with Genet, and a Lifelong Love of Books

Jeanette and Richard Seaver, a Life in Publishing

By John J. Healey | June 21, 2017

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Shorter, Faster, Better: On the Beauty of Literary Compression

By Olivia Clare Friedman | June 20, 2017

False Starts, or This Novel-Writing Shit Isn't Easy

By Don Lee | June 15, 2017

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Examining Our Over-reliance on a Word that Says Not Much At All

By Chris Townsend | June 14, 2017

Balancing Bollywood Inspiration with American Expectations

Balancing Bollywood Inspiration with American Expectations

"My hybrid identity cannot be contained by one culture"

By SJ Sindu | June 14, 2017

Jill Eisenstadt on Surviving the Literary Brat Pack

Jill Eisenstadt on Surviving the Literary Brat Pack

The Author of Swell talks New York in the 1980s

By Jill Eisenstadt | June 9, 2017

How An 80-Year-Old Murder Inspired My Present-Day Novel

How An 80-Year-Old Murder Inspired My Present-Day Novel

A Chance Encounter with LIFE magazine Changed Everything

By Rosecrans Baldwin | June 8, 2017

What Makes a Ghost Story Effective?

What Makes a Ghost Story Effective?

Good Ghost Stories Rest Solidly within the Purview of Real Life

By Gail Godwin | June 8, 2017

Joseph Kanon: There Is No Better Place to Write than the Library

Joseph Kanon: There Is No Better Place to Write than the Library

On the most beautiful office in New York City

By Joe Kanon | June 8, 2017

Jennifer Weiner: From Small-Town Beat Reporter to Big City Columnist

Jennifer Weiner: From Small-Town Beat Reporter to Big City Columnist

The Author of Hungry Heart on Following the Advice: "Just Write Every Day"

By Jennifer Weiner | June 7, 2017

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