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How to Write a Memoir When You're Sick With Cancer

How to Write a Memoir When You're Sick With Cancer

Dan O'Brien on Cancer and Honesty

By Dan O'Brien | October 11, 2023

Insomnia, Imposter Syndrome, and All the Ways I Learned to Write My Book

Insomnia, Imposter Syndrome, and All the Ways I Learned to Write My Book

"In order to tell the truth out loud, on the page, I needed to learn to be compassionate with myself"

By Rebecca Clarren | October 11, 2023

Adam Thirlwell on Witold Gombrowicz's <em> The Possessed</em>

Adam Thirlwell on Witold Gombrowicz's The Possessed

Revisiting a Polish Modernist Classic

By Adam Thirlwell | October 11, 2023

How Horror Helps Us Confront and Understand Grief and Loss

How Horror Helps Us Confront and Understand Grief and Loss

Alexandra Dos Santos on Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House

By Alexandra Dos Santos | October 11, 2023

Hua Hsu on Finding the Future in the Past

Hua Hsu on Finding the Future in the Past

This Week on the Talk Easy Podcast with Sam Fragoso

By Talk Easy | October 11, 2023

Newly minted Nobel Laureate Jon Fosse on the best writing advice he's ever received.

Newly minted Nobel Laureate Jon Fosse on the best writing advice he's ever received.

By Emily Temple | October 10, 2023

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Fear of Indirect Contact: Todd Portnowitz on Translating Jhumpa Lahiri

By Todd Portnowitz | October 10, 2023

Domestic Yet Universal: Rumaan Alam on Helen Garner's The Children's Bach

By Rumaan Alam | October 10, 2023

Writing as Transformation: Who Paul Yoon Needed to Become to Finish His Book

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No One Ever Said It: On the Long History of

No One Ever Said It: On the Long History of "Ye Olde" in English

Hana Videen on Chaucer, Hamlet, and the Evolution of Middle and Old English

By Hana Videen | October 10, 2023

Why the Russian Protest Poems of Sergey Gandlevsky Still Matter Today

Why the Russian Protest Poems of Sergey Gandlevsky Still Matter Today

Phillip Metres on Political Literature, Classical Forms, and What Outsiders Get Wrong About Russian Poetry

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Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

Featuring Justin Torres, Alice Pung, John Lee Clark and More.

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Helen Macdonald and Sin Blaché on the Art of Co-Authoring

Helen Macdonald and Sin Blaché on the Art of Co-Authoring

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Isle McElroy on How It Might Feel to Live in the Wrong Body

Isle McElroy on How It Might Feel to Live in the Wrong Body

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | October 10, 2023

Benjamín Labatut Will Not Be Profiled

Benjamín Labatut Will Not Be Profiled

But Adam Dalva Tries Anyway

By Adam Dalva | October 9, 2023

Ann Patchett on Oscar Hijuelos' Lush, Elegiac Novel Full of Music and Sex

Ann Patchett on Oscar Hijuelos' Lush, Elegiac Novel Full of Music and Sex

"Bless the novels that provide accounts of the world that came before."

By Ann Patchett | October 9, 2023

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