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Toni Morrison on Breathing Life into Clichés

Toni Morrison on Breathing Life into Clichés

"A cliché is a cliché because it’s worthwhile. Otherwise, it would have been discarded."

By Toni Morrison | January 13, 2023

An Extraordinary Partnership: <em>Turn Every Page</em> Illustrates the Rare Ideal of Artistic Collaboration

An Extraordinary Partnership: Turn Every Page Illustrates the Rare Ideal of Artistic Collaboration

Michelle Nijhuis Considers the New Documentary About Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb

By Michelle Nijhuis | January 13, 2023

Author Brad Meltzer in Conversation with Golden Voice Narrator Scott Brick

Author Brad Meltzer in Conversation with Golden Voice Narrator Scott Brick

On Their Longtime Collaboration and The Nazi Conspiracy

By Behind the Mic | January 13, 2023

Singer-Songwriter Margo Price on Finding Truth and Joy in Writing a Memoir

Singer-Songwriter Margo Price on Finding Truth and Joy in Writing a Memoir

Maggie Smith Talks to the Author of Maybe We'll Make It

By Maggie Smith | January 12, 2023

<em>Vintage Contemporaries</em>: Dan Kois on the Joys and Sorrows of Literary New York in the 1990s and 2000s

Vintage Contemporaries: Dan Kois on the Joys and Sorrows of Literary New York in the 1990s and 2000s

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | January 12, 2023

Why Dan Kois Created a Laurie Colwin-Esque Character in His New Novel

Why Dan Kois Created a Laurie Colwin-Esque Character in His New Novel

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | January 12, 2023

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Russell Banks on the Time He Fled Bread Loaf with Nelson Algren

By Adam Colman | January 11, 2023

Kashana Cauley: “I Tell Jokes About Things That I Am Angry About.”

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | January 11, 2023

On Seinfeld and the Mundane Fantasy World of the Three-Camera Sitcom

By Sean Adams | January 11, 2023

“Just Fade to White, Dear.” Aminatta Forna Remembers Fay Weldon

“Just Fade to White, Dear.” Aminatta Forna Remembers Fay Weldon

“She didn’t give a hoot what anyone thought.”

By Aminatta Forna | January 10, 2023

Suzanne Berne Asks Us, Why Write a Novel, Why Read a Novel, and Why Now?

Suzanne Berne Asks Us, Why Write a Novel, Why Read a Novel, and Why Now?

“I believe in the capacity of the novel, in its formal demonstration of the possibility for greater insight and compassion over time.”

By Suzanne Berne | January 10, 2023

Lit Hub Asks: 5 Writers, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

Lit Hub Asks: 5 Writers, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

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By Teddy Wayne | January 10, 2023

Sean Adams: Melding Corporate Office Culture Into a Dystopian Horror Novel

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By Otherppl with Brad Listi | January 10, 2023

Christine Sneed on Leaning Into the Absurdity of Office Life

Christine Sneed on Leaning Into the Absurdity of Office Life

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By I'm a Writer But | January 10, 2023

That’s Not Typing, It’s Writing: How T. S. Eliot Wrote “The Waste Land”

That’s Not Typing, It’s Writing: How T. S. Eliot Wrote “The Waste Land”

“With me an unfinished thing is a thing that might as well be rubbed out.”

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Peter Cole on Making the Poetic Abstract Concrete

Peter Cole on Making the Poetic Abstract Concrete

The Poet on His New Collection Draw Me After

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