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“A monster can look like whatever it wants”: On the Allure of Literary Monsters

“A monster can look like whatever it wants”: On the Allure of Literary Monsters

Adrian Van Young on the Monstrous Stories That Shaped Him

By Adrian Van Young | October 31, 2023

The Scariest, Creepiest, and Most Frightening Animals in Fiction

The Scariest, Creepiest, and Most Frightening Animals in Fiction

Justin C. Key Finds the Best (or Worst?) in Horror

By Justin C Key | October 31, 2023

What Are Thriller Writers Truly Afraid Of?

What Are Thriller Writers Truly Afraid Of?

Danielle Trussoni Talks with Four Authors on How Their Fears Make it into Their Fiction

By Danielle Trussoni | October 31, 2023

Something Is Rotten in Horror’s Use of Pedagogy

Something Is Rotten in Horror’s Use of Pedagogy

Tyler Malone on the Canker in the Classroom

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

By Literary Hub | October 30, 2023

A Master Class in Words: On the Vitality and Vividness of The Iliad's Opening Lines

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Isabel Cañas on the Gothic and Drawing from Everyday Monsters

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America's First Man of Letters: Washington Irving

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From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | October 30, 2023

Patty Crane on Translation and Influence

Patty Crane on Translation and Influence

"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."

By Patty Crane | October 27, 2023

October's Best Reviewed Nonfiction

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<em>Dory Fantasmagory</em> author Abby Hanlon has the real Tubtown toy.

Dory Fantasmagory author Abby Hanlon has the real Tubtown toy.

By Janet Manley | October 26, 2023

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

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

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

By Jeremy Cooper | October 26, 2023

Molly McGhee on the Importance of Acknowledgments

Molly McGhee on the Importance of Acknowledgments

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | October 26, 2023

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