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What It's Like to Write a Book Full of Books

What It's Like to Write a Book Full of Books

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5 Writers, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

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Alice Walker on Writing, Dancing, and Bursting Into Song

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Patrick DeWitt on the Surreal Joy (and Terror) of Seeing Your Novel Onscreen

Patrick DeWitt on the Surreal Joy (and Terror) of Seeing Your Novel Onscreen

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Reality is Not Conventional: An Interview with Deborah Eisenberg

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In Which Bookstore Patrons Apprehend an Escaped Prisoner

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Wandering Through the Uncanny Valley of Laura van den Berg's Fictions

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Ada Limón on Kanye West, Womanhood, Truth in Poetry, and More

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