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How the Essay and the Novel Inform and Influence Each Other

How the Essay and the Novel Inform and Influence Each Other

Jane Smiley on the Many Stories of California, True and Fictional

By Jane Smiley | June 6, 2023

Is Ice America’s Most Literary Element?

Is Ice America’s Most Literary Element?

Amy Brady on a Particularly American Obsession

By Amy Brady | June 6, 2023

Hilton Als on Why Joan Didion and James Baldwin Stand Side-by-Side on His Bookshelf

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This Week on the Talk Easy Podcast with Sam Fragoso

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It’s Okay to Have a Love/Hate Relationship With Your Writing

It’s Okay to Have a Love/Hate Relationship With Your Writing

Katie Williams Remembers Reading Anne Lamott’s “Shitty First Drafts” and the Slog of Learning to Be a Writer

By Katie Williams | June 6, 2023

Andre Dubus III Beats Writer’s Block By Asking the Right Questions

Andre Dubus III Beats Writer’s Block By Asking the Right Questions

The Author of Such Kindness Answers the Lit Hub Questionnaire

By Literary Hub | June 6, 2023

The Master, Margarita, and I: Paul Goldberg on the Third Rail of the Russian Classic

The Master, Margarita, and I: Paul Goldberg on the Third Rail of the Russian Classic

“Our relationship has required much maintenance and has not been harmonious.”

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An Introduction to Journey to the West, the 16th-Century Chinese Novel of Comic Mischief and Spirituality

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Why <em>The Turn of the Screw</em> Haunts Us 125 Years Later

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“That queasy opacity is at the heart of the novella’s power... The reader is never sure what, exactly, is happening.”

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