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Memoir On a Hill: Finding the Best Way to Tell the Story of America

Memoir On a Hill: Finding the Best Way to Tell the Story of America

Jason Mott Navigates the Demands of Fiction and Nonfiction in the Second Trump Era

By Jason Mott | August 14, 2025

“Literature is a Force For Peace and Solidarity.” On Writing a Novel of the War in Ukraine

“Literature is a Force For Peace and Solidarity.” On Writing a Novel of the War in Ukraine

Sam Wachman Unpacks the Challenges of Sharing Truths in Fiction

By Sam Wachman | August 13, 2025

Anthony Vahni Capildeo on Kimberly Campanello's <em>An Interesting Detail</em>

Anthony Vahni Capildeo on Kimberly Campanello's An Interesting Detail

In Conversation with Michael Kelleher for the Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast

By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast | August 13, 2025

How Small-Town Public Libraries Enrich the Generative Research Process

How Small-Town Public Libraries Enrich the Generative Research Process

Nick Fuller Googins on Embracing Analog Research Methods at the Library

By Nick Fuller Googins | August 12, 2025

Literary Synchronicities: Jessica Francis Kane on Finding Coincidences While Writing

Literary Synchronicities: Jessica Francis Kane on Finding Coincidences While Writing

The Author of “Fonseca” on Penelope Fitzgerald, Hermione Lee, and Authorial Happenstance

By Jessica Francis Kane | August 12, 2025

Jessica Francis Kane on Fictionalizing Penelope Fitzgerald’s Mexican Sojurn

Jessica Francis Kane on Fictionalizing Penelope Fitzgerald’s Mexican Sojurn

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall and Lee Wind on Championing Marginalized Characters

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The Case for Renaming Kafka’s <em>Metamorphosis</em> as <em>The Transformation</em>

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Jessica Gross on Writing a New York Novel as an Ex-New Yorker

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How to Get Back in a New York State of Mind

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Am I the Literary Asshole For Prioritizing My Writing Over the People in My Life?

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The Annotated Nightstand: What Chloe Caldwell Is Reading Now, and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Chloe Caldwell Is Reading Now, and Next

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Carl Phillips and Aditi Machado Feel Like Radically Different Poets

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Khadijah Queen on What It’s Like to Write Poetry on a Naval Destroyer

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