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Martín Solares on Creating Novelesque Excitement

Martín Solares on Creating Novelesque Excitement

“A story is novelesque when it provokes in the reader, at regular intervals, the burning question: What will happen next?”

By Martín Solares | December 15, 2023

Writing in Tandem: Inside the Process of Cross-Racial Creative Collaboration

Writing in Tandem: Inside the Process of Cross-Racial Creative Collaboration

Christine Platt and Catherine Wigginton Greene on the Challenges and Benefits of Co-Authorship

By Christine Platt and Catherine Wigginton Greene | December 15, 2023

Tracy K. Smith on Liberty

Tracy K. Smith on Liberty

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | December 14, 2023

The Award-Winning Novels of 2023

The Award-Winning Novels of 2023

The Books That Took Home This Year’s Biggest Literary Prizes

By Book Marks | December 14, 2023

Playing With Words: Heather Cleary on the Pleasures of Translating the Unfamiliar

Playing With Words: Heather Cleary on the Pleasures of Translating the Unfamiliar

“We often learn the most from texts (and friends) with which we have little in common.”

By Heather Cleary | December 14, 2023

The Annotated Nightstand: What Rachel Zucker is Reading Now and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Rachel Zucker is Reading Now and Next

Featuring Mary Ruefle, Nicole Sealey, Joy Harjo, and More

By Diana Arterian | December 14, 2023

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Micheal O’Siadhail on the Pleasure of Writing Poems by Hand

By Micheal O'Siadhail | December 13, 2023

The Power of Passivity: On Choosing to Do Nothing

The Power of Passivity: On Choosing to Do Nothing

Maura Lammers Considers the Role of Inaction in Fiction and in Real Life

By Maura Lammers | December 13, 2023

Phyllis Rose on Writing About Real People in Nonfiction, Making Your Diaries Public, and More

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Rumena Bužarovska Talks with the Author of The Year of Reading Proust

By Rumena Bužarovska | December 13, 2023

Anne Enright on Growing Up in Ireland

Anne Enright on Growing Up in Ireland

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | December 13, 2023

One Naomi, Two Naomis, Three: The Too-Real Experience of Reading Naomi Klein’s <em>Doppelgänger</em>

One Naomi, Two Naomis, Three: The Too-Real Experience of Reading Naomi Klein’s Doppelgänger

Naomi J. Williams on Being Mistaken for Other Naomis in Art and Life

By Naomi J. Williams | December 12, 2023

The Cure! A history of anonymous letters! 11 new books out this week.

The Cure! A history of anonymous letters! 11 new books out this week.

By Gabrielle Bellot | December 12, 2023

Gideon Lewis-Kraus: Everyone Needs to Read Nathan Thrall’s <em>A Day in the Life of Abed Salama</em>

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Pink Dystopia: Gabrielle Korn on How a Decade in Women’s Media Inspired Her Novel

Pink Dystopia: Gabrielle Korn on How a Decade in Women’s Media Inspired Her Novel

“What no one said out loud was that it already did mean something—to other people’s bottom line.”

By Gabrielle Korn | December 12, 2023

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