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How Writers Can Best Conceptualize Their Work

How Writers Can Best Conceptualize Their Work

Graeme Simsion on the Key to Developing Engaging Ideas

By Graeme Simsion | April 6, 2022

Being Funny Doesn’t Mean You Can’t Be a Serious Writer

Being Funny Doesn’t Mean You Can’t Be a Serious Writer

Gina Sorell on Writing Humor with a Serious Face

By Gina Sorell | April 6, 2022

Anakana Schofield Has Discovered Professional Basketball, and She Has Thoughts

Anakana Schofield Has Discovered Professional Basketball, and She Has Thoughts

In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | April 6, 2022

Morgan Jerkins on Leo Tolstoy, <em>Pachinko</em>, and the sex scene in <em>Sula</em>

Morgan Jerkins on Leo Tolstoy, Pachinko, and the sex scene in Sula

Rapid-fire Book Recs from the Author of Caul Baby

By Book Marks | April 6, 2022

An Ode to the French Teacher Who Taught Me to Inhabit the Language

An Ode to the French Teacher Who Taught Me to Inhabit the Language

Grant Ginder on Getting Linguistic and Life Lessons from a “Very” French Woman

By Grant Ginder | April 5, 2022

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Chloé Cooper Jones on Writing About Disability and Engaging With Beauty

By Greg Marshall | April 5, 2022

What Can We Learn From the “Life” of the Little Prince?

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Jessamine Chan on Writing the Weird Book She Wanted to Write

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Kaitlyn Greenidge on Toni Morrison, Karen Tei Yamashita, Melissa Broder, and More

Kaitlyn Greenidge on Toni Morrison, Karen Tei Yamashita, Melissa Broder, and More

Rapid-fire Book Recs from the Author of Libertie

By Book Marks | April 5, 2022

Defying Classification: An Introduction to Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction

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Victor Fernando R. Ocampo Recommends the Best of a Growing Genre

By Victor Fernando R. Ocampo | April 4, 2022

The 1990s: A Surreal (and Sociopathic?) Era in America

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Candice Wuehle on Books That Remember (and Resist) a Weird Moment in This Country

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Douglas Stuart on Masculinity and the Long Literary Tradition of the Gang Novel

Douglas Stuart on Masculinity and the Long Literary Tradition of the Gang Novel

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

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The Challenges and Pleasures of Helping Quincy Jones Tell His Life Story

The Challenges and Pleasures of Helping Quincy Jones Tell His Life Story

Patricia Mulcahy on Collaborating with a Musical Icon

By Patricia Mulcahy | April 4, 2022

Announcing the Winners of the 2022 O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction

Announcing the Winners of the 2022 O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction

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What Literary Techniques Did Sigmund Freud Employ?

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