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“I’d Read Her Grocery Lists.” On Cooking with Sylvia Plath

Lydia Millet on the Lack of Empathetic Characters in Fiction

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Darryl Pinckney on Working for the New York Review of Books and Navigating New York City’s Literary Scene as a Young Black Writer

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