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Pedro Páramo">"Bitterness Incarnate:" Douglas J. Weatherford on Juan Rulfo's Pedro Páramo

"The text vacillates between presence and absence, between reality and irreality, and even between life and death."

By Douglas J. Weatherford | September 27, 2023

The Rules of the Game: How Genre Can Illuminate Theme

The Rules of the Game: How Genre Can Illuminate Theme

Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu on Crafting and Subverting Colonial and Postcolonial Narratives

By Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu | September 27, 2023

The Diving Suit and the Bathtub, or: How a Single Image Sparked a Whole Novel

The Diving Suit and the Bathtub, or: How a Single Image Sparked a Whole Novel

Steve Stern on the Haphazard Affair of Writing a Book

By Steve Stern | September 27, 2023

Enduring Epics: Emily Wilson and Madeline Miller on Breathing New Life Into Ancient Classics

Enduring Epics: Emily Wilson and Madeline Miller on Breathing New Life Into Ancient Classics

The Author of Circe Talks to the Translator of The Iliad

By Emily Wilson | September 26, 2023

Hermione Lee on Mavis Gallant,

Hermione Lee on Mavis Gallant, "Unerring Stylist"

"A writer for whom nothing is alien and everything is possible"

By Hermione Lee | September 26, 2023

How Nora Fussner Turned a Reality TV Job Into a Novel

How Nora Fussner Turned a Reality TV Job Into a Novel

The Author of The Invisible World on Her Life as a Logger

By Nora Fussner | September 26, 2023

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Jayne Anne Phillips on Uncovering the Hidden Aftermath of the Civil War

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Elisa Gabbert and Michael Joseph Walsh on Rilke's The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

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New Homelands: Alexander Chee on Lan Samantha Chang's <em>Hunger</em>

New Homelands: Alexander Chee on Lan Samantha Chang's Hunger

"It is a wise book, for the way it is full of the sorts of mistakes people make and cannot take back."

By Alexander Chee | September 25, 2023

Ken Follett Wants His Books to Feel as Exciting as James Bond

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The Author of The Armor of Light Takes the Lit Hub Questionnaire

By Literary Hub | September 25, 2023

Maternal Vertigo: Molly Lynch on Chaos, Childcare, and Civilizational Collapse

Maternal Vertigo: Molly Lynch on Chaos, Childcare, and Civilizational Collapse

"At the very moment that you take on the greatest act of caring, you discover how powerless you are."

By Molly Lynch | September 25, 2023

Another Possible World: Jen Silverman on Imagining Dystopias and Utopias

Another Possible World: Jen Silverman on Imagining Dystopias and Utopias

"What better future can we believe in, so that it can be made?"

By Jen Silverman | September 25, 2023

Marsha Gordon on Ursula Parrott's Fascinating Life

Marsha Gordon on Ursula Parrott's Fascinating Life

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | September 25, 2023

Tzivia Gover on Dreaming and Writing

Tzivia Gover on Dreaming and Writing

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Claudia Dey on Women's Work, Acting as Writing, and the Complicated Allure of Patriarchs

Claudia Dey on Women's Work, Acting as Writing, and the Complicated Allure of Patriarchs

Naomi Skwarna in Conversation with the Author of Daughter

By Naomi Skwarna | September 22, 2023

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