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    Thomas McGuane on Not Living the Writer’s Life

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    Philip Roth on Mortality: “It’s a Bad Contract, and We All Have to Sign It”

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    Sex, Drugs, Rock n’ Roll, and Mystical Poets

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    Taking Down Corporate Culture with Poetry

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    Essay

    Did Camp Change Me? It Made Me a Liar, Which Is to Say a Novelist

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    The First Great Instagram Novel?

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    Advice

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    How to Survive One of the World’s Biggest Literary Festivals

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    Essay

    Tom Wolfe on the Writer’s Hippocratic Oath: “First, Entertain.”

    By John Freeman  May 16, 2018
    Excerpts

    On Soseki’s Bitingly Critical Novel, I Am a Cat

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