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Dear Fellow Traveler: A Close Reading of the Magnetic Guest Journals at Deetjen’s Big Sur Inn

Dear Fellow Traveler: A Close Reading of the Magnetic Guest Journals at Deetjen’s Big Sur Inn

Anna Journey on the Magical Living Document at Deetjen's Smallest and Most Remote Guest Cottage

By Anna Journey | March 1, 2017

On the Importance of the Public School Novel, Right Now

On the Importance of the Public School Novel, Right Now

Moving Beyond the Prep School Canon

By Nick Ripatrazone | February 27, 2017

The Life and Legacy of Bharati Mukherjee

The Life and Legacy of Bharati Mukherjee

Anjali Enjeti Remembers the Matriarch of Indian-American Literature

By Anjali Enjeti | February 27, 2017

How Mary Miller's Stories Demystify the White Working Class

How Mary Miller's Stories Demystify the White Working Class

On the Socioeconomic and Racial Dynamics in Always Happy Hour

By Alex Gallo-Brown | February 23, 2017

Behind the Dedications: Hunter S. Thompson

Behind the Dedications: Hunter S. Thompson

A look at the family, friends and substances to which Thompson dedicated his books

By Arvind Dilawar | February 20, 2017

In Praise of the New Aphorism, No Longer Just For Great Men

In Praise of the New Aphorism, No Longer Just For Great Men

How Sarah Manguso, Maggie Nelson, and Rivka Galchen Are Making It New

By Kristen Martin | February 16, 2017

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Edgar Allan Poe, Editor and Original Hatchet Man

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On the Literary Magazine in which "The Fall of the House of Usher" First Appeared

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How Fiction Tackles Global Economic Uncertainty

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Why We Need More Trans Protagonists for Kids

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