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“It’s Out of Africa Meets Pretty Woman!” On the Problem With Comp Titles

Miranda July Recommends the Best Way to Procrastinate

Anna Noyes on How Residencies and New Routines Create New Neural Pathways (and Help You Write Better)

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The Annotated Nightstand: What Zoë Bossiere Is Reading Now, and Next

Monica Youn on PEN, Activism at Literary Awards, and Gaza

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“To Become a Poet is to Step Into the Void.” Brian Henry on Slovenian Poet Tomaž Šalamun

On the Joys of Following Literary Instinct Wherever It Leads

Snapshots of Life: Storytelling and Outlaw Culture in Eastern Kentucky

The Cosmic Library on Stories and Sleep

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Kevin Kwan on His Love of Classics (Even if He’s Still Never Read Middlemarch)

Drifters, Searchers and Observers: In Praise of Quietly Unlikable Women

Jessie Gaynor on Rereading The Corrections While Navigating Her Mother’s Parkinson’s

“Splintered beyond recognition.” Yogita Goyal on the Difficulty of Categorizing Contemporary African American Literature

R.O. Kwon on Writing Her Way Into a Book’s Most Truthful Version

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