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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

Can Writers Ever Remember How to Read For Fun?

Can Writers Ever Remember How to Read For Fun?

Amy Shearn on Accidentally Killing Her Book Group and Rediscovering the Joys of Getting Lost in a Story

By Amy Shearn | April 1, 2025

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

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

Lee Martin Needed a New Story to Explain the Ending of “The Bright Forever”

By Lee Martin | April 1, 2025

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

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

Featuring Ariana Benson, Peter Gizzi, Romeo Oriogun, V. Penelope Pelizzon, Greg Rappleye, and Jess Smith

By Literary Hub | March 31, 2025

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Karen Russell on What the Magic Offers

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

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Kate McKean on Your Feelings About Publishing

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By Sulaiman Addonia | March 28, 2025

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

By Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya | March 27, 2025

Earthquake Anxiety:
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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

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Sabrina Imbler on the Power of Collectivity

Sabrina Imbler on the Power of Collectivity

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on Thresholds

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Ann Powers and Alison Fensterstock on <em>How Women Made Music</em>

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Fergus McIntosh: “One Wonders”

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Two Ways To Tell the Same Truth: Navigating the Boundary Between Fact and Fiction

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The Power of Absence: How Loss Can Help Fuel a Creative Life

The Power of Absence: How Loss Can Help Fuel a Creative Life

Sanam Mahloudji: “If I didn’t feel an absence or a sense of loss, there would be no need to write.”

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