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The Scariest, Creepiest, and Most Frightening Animals in Fiction

The Scariest, Creepiest, and Most Frightening Animals in Fiction

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By Justin C Key | October 31, 2023

What Are Thriller Writers Truly Afraid Of?

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By Tyler Malone | October 31, 2023

“Leisure, Labor, Reticence, Violence”: What Horror Films Can Teach Us About Poetry

“Leisure, Labor, Reticence, Violence”: What Horror Films Can Teach Us About Poetry

Justin Phillip Reed Considers Craft and Alienation on the Screen and on the Page

By Justin Phillip Reed | October 31, 2023

Michael Lewis on Watching Sam Bankman-Fried

Michael Lewis on Watching Sam Bankman-Fried

This Week on the Talk Easy Podcast with Sam Fragoso

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Tim O'Brien on Letting the World Decide What He'll Read Next

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Patty Crane on Translation and Influence

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"Somewhere along the way, my immersion in Tranströmer and my search for a sense of place merged. As if the poetry became the place, and the place the poetry."

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Fact, Fiction, and Film: Jeremy Cooper on Creating Verisimilitude

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"Like an iceberg, more lies below the surface than is visible on the printed page."

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Molly McGhee on the Importance of Acknowledgments

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Jonathan Lethem on the Depths of Gentrification

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