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How the Best Commencement Speech of All Time Was Bad for Literature

How the Best Commencement Speech of All Time Was Bad for Literature

David Foster Wallace's New Sentimentality Got Old, Fast

By Emily Harnett | May 17, 2016

The Unstoppable Myth of Alejandra Pizarnik

The Unstoppable Myth of Alejandra Pizarnik

A Poet of the Night, and Love, and Terror, and Tragedy

By Enrique Vila-Matas | May 17, 2016

How Katherine Dunn's <em>Geek Love</em> Saved Me

How Katherine Dunn's Geek Love Saved Me

For Helena Fitzgerald, the Right Book Came Along at the Right Time

By Helena Fitzgerald | May 17, 2016

I Am Jessa Crispin’s Problem with Publishing

I Am Jessa Crispin’s Problem with Publishing

Bethanne Patrick on Careerism, Criticism, and a Life in Books

By Bethanne Patrick | May 13, 2016

Luis J. Rodriguez: LA is a Great Poetry Town.

Luis J. Rodriguez: LA is a Great Poetry Town.

David L. Ulin on Los Angeles's poet laureate

By David L. Ulin | May 13, 2016

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By Daniel Torday | May 12, 2016

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The Dimunition of Women Writers: An American Tradition

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Why Fiction Needs More Women Scientists

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Why Are There So Many Novels About Famous Writers?

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