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Reading in a Boom Time of Biographical Fiction

Reading in a Boom Time of Biographical Fiction

Jay Parini on the Art of Inventing Real Life

By Jay Parini | August 21, 2019

Hans Christian Andersen, Original Literary Softboi

Hans Christian Andersen, Original Literary Softboi

Bookish Ambition! Awkward Gentleness! Goth Sexiness! He Had It All

By Boze Herrington | August 21, 2019

Whatever Your Classroom, Please Teach More Living Poets

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Nick Ripatrazone on the Benefits of Studying
“breathing, human artists.”

By Nick Ripatrazone | August 20, 2019

The Ways in Which Writing May or May Not Resemble Sex

The Ways in Which Writing May or May Not Resemble Sex

Nicola Waldron Wonders if Writing Can Be a Kink

By Nicola Waldron | August 20, 2019

Amitav Ghosh and Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni on Indian Epics in Modern Novels

Amitav Ghosh and Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni on Indian Epics in Modern Novels

The Authors of Gun Island and The Forest of Enchantments in Conversation

By Literary Hub | August 20, 2019

Lessons From Nabokov: Finding Freedom in a Foreign Language

Lessons From Nabokov: Finding Freedom in a Foreign Language

Rajia Hassib on Mastering a Third Language

By Rajia Hassib | August 19, 2019

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Dear Yusef Komunyakaa:
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By Gregory Pardlo | August 19, 2019

Edoardo Albinati on Masculinity, Italy, and Fascism

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In the Age of Endless Scrolling, Jun’ichiro Tanizaki Helps Us Stand Still

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The 50 Best One-Star Amazon Reviews of Lolita

"Too much French."

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Plunging Into the 1970s' Altered States of Awareness

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Buzz Poole on Erik Davis’s High Weirdness

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Thank God for the Sex I Found in My Mother's Romance Novels

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Isabelle Davis on Finding Just the Right Books at Just the Right Time

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Roy Jacobsen on the Backbone of Nordic Literature: the Sagas of Iceland

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Some of Europe's Most Enduring, Complex Literary Works

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On the Gleefully Indecent Poems of a Medieval Welsh Feminist Poet

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Gwerful Mechain, Author of Classics Like "Poem to the Vagina" and "Poem to the Penis"

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11 Famous Writers on the Genius and Influence of Shirley Jackson

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