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On Finding the Strangeness in the Mundane, and Vice Versa

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How a <em>Lord of the Rings</em> and Dungeons & Dragons Crossover Almost Happened

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The Challenges of Writing Fiction About the “Darkest Corner of the Dark Ages”

The Challenges of Writing Fiction About the “Darkest Corner of the Dark Ages”

Rebecca Stott On Writing A Novel Set In The Abandoned Ruins Of Sixth-Century Londinium

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What Only Musicians and Translators Know

What Only Musicians and Translators Know

Jessica Sequeira on Transforming Emotion into Music and Words

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Bad Hollywood: A Reading List to Understand Harvey Weinstein’s Twisted World

Bad Hollywood: A Reading List to Understand Harvey Weinstein’s Twisted World

Ken Auletta Recommends Ronan Farrow, William Goldman, and More

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How Final Fantasy VII Taught Me to Write

How Final Fantasy VII Taught Me to Write

Jamil Jan Kochai on Character Building, Storytelling, and Cloud Strife

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How Literature Influenced Adolescent Ideas About Love in the 18th Century

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Bad Seeds and Mad Scientists: On the Build-A-Humans of 19th-Century Literature

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Liska Jacobs on Leaving Los Angeles, City of “Impermanence and Unreliability”

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