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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

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How Horror Helps Us Confront and Understand Grief and Loss

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This Week on the Talk Easy Podcast with Sam Fragoso

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

By Emily Temple | October 10, 2023

Fear of Indirect Contact: Todd Portnowitz on Translating Jhumpa Lahiri

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"We resent that there’s an interpretive element to translation."

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

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Benjamín Labatut Will Not Be Profiled

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

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

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