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On the Books We Read (and Write) to Get By

On the Books We Read (and Write) to Get By

Death Shall Have No Dominion Over the Literature of Grief

By Veronica Esposito | May 9, 2017

On the Dark(er) Side of the Perpetually Dark Edward Gorey

On the Dark(er) Side of the Perpetually Dark Edward Gorey

From Wittgenstein to The Golden Girls, a Man of Varied Interests

By Gabrielle Bellot | May 3, 2017

What <em>I'd Die for You</em> Tells Us About Fitzgerald's Troubled Final Years

What I'd Die for You Tells Us About Fitzgerald's Troubled Final Years

And How he Turned Personal Tragedy into His Best Work

By Cody Delistraty | May 3, 2017

The Many Ways in Which We Are Wrong About Jane Austen

The Many Ways in Which We Are Wrong About Jane Austen

Lies, Damn Lies, and Literary Scholarship

By Helena Kelly | May 3, 2017

The Forgotten History of American Working-Class Literature

The Forgotten History of American Working-Class Literature

And the Recent Movement to Restore its Place in the Canon

By Amanda Arnold | May 1, 2017

On Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Vladislav Felitsianovich Khodasevich

On Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Vladislav Felitsianovich Khodasevich

Russian Literature Week is Set to Take Over NYC

By Literary Hub | May 1, 2017

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How Hollywood Segregates Eternity

By Harmony Holiday | April 26, 2017

F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Psychic Cost of Selling Out

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How I Learned to Love the Weird, From Octavia Butler to Kelly Link

How I Learned to Love the Weird, From Octavia Butler to Kelly Link

Brian Francis Slattery Finds a Home in the Strange and Unsettling

By Brian Francis Slattery | April 21, 2017

Nihilism or Wonder? On the Evolution of the Alien Story

Nihilism or Wonder? On the Evolution of the Alien Story

Investigating Extraterrestrial Metaphors for Communism, Religion, Love & Art

By Emily Harnett | April 19, 2017

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Louise Glück on Realism and Fantasy

Louise Glück on Realism and Fantasy

"The fantastic exists as hypothesis and dream."

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Some of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Best Characters Were Dead People

Some of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Best Characters Were Dead People

On Love, Death, and Life in the Work of a Master

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Race is the Original American Fiction

Race is the Original American Fiction

On Reuniting with The Descendants of Thomas Jefferson's Slaves

By Andrew Mitchell Davenport | April 13, 2017

In Defense of Worldbuilding

In Defense of Worldbuilding

Or, Against Being Against Writing Tools

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