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George Saunders on His First Love: Songwriting

George Saunders on His First Love: Songwriting

Mike Errico Talks to the Writer About His Alternative Life as an Almost Professional Musician

By Mike Errico | January 9, 2023

Unguilty Pleasures: My Year of Reading Romance Novels

Unguilty Pleasures: My Year of Reading Romance Novels

Katie Fustich on Finding New Possibilities in a Misunderstood Genre

By Katie Fustich | January 9, 2023

That’s Not Typing, It’s Writing: How T. S. Eliot Wrote “The Waste Land”

That’s Not Typing, It’s Writing: How T. S. Eliot Wrote “The Waste Land”

“With me an unfinished thing is a thing that might as well be rubbed out.”

By Matthew Hollis | January 9, 2023

Shelf Talkers: What the Booksellers Are Reading at Point Reyes Books

Shelf Talkers: What the Booksellers Are Reading at Point Reyes Books

Recommendations from Booksellers in Point Reyes, CA

By Literary Hub | January 9, 2023

Peter Cole on Making the Poetic Abstract Concrete

Peter Cole on Making the Poetic Abstract Concrete

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“The Best Story I’ve Ever Written is the One I’m Going to Write Next.” Jack Driscoll on His Stylistic Expansion

“The Best Story I’ve Ever Written is the One I’m Going to Write Next.” Jack Driscoll on His Stylistic Expansion

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

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The Original Pinocchio Is a Radical Anti-Work Story

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The Sanctity of a Journal: On Private Writing in the Age of Public Content

The Sanctity of a Journal: On Private Writing in the Age of Public Content

“What stories do we owe each other—ourselves?”

By Rachel Schwartzmann | January 6, 2023

Why Travel Writing is a Form of Memoir and How Covid Has Changed How We See the World

Why Travel Writing is a Form of Memoir and How Covid Has Changed How We See the World

Pico Iyer in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

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What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

Featuring New Titles by Tom Crewe, Parini Shroff, Martha C. Nussbaum, and More

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We <em>Can’t</em> Do It: How Women’s Contributions to Fighting Fascism Were Forgotten

We Can’t Do It: How Women’s Contributions to Fighting Fascism Were Forgotten

Natasha Lester on the Collective Amnesia Around Women’s Accomplishments After World War II

By Natasha Lester | January 6, 2023

Gerald Stern on the Accidental Beginnings of Poems

Gerald Stern on the Accidental Beginnings of Poems

“Every poem worth its salt was unpredicted and has its genesis at a low point in the poet’s journey.”

By Gerald Stern | January 6, 2023

Why 2023 Probably Won’t Bring an End to the War in Ukraine

Why 2023 Probably Won’t Bring an End to the War in Ukraine

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Annalee Newitz on Writing Stories That Reveal a Pathway Out of Dark Times

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