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Austin Ross on Great Titles, Gross Bugs, and the Chaotic Energy of Submitting Work from Your Phone

Mark Kurlansky: Why Short Stories are Pure Storytelling

Looking for God During the Vietnam War: A Conversation with Elan Barnehama

The Catch Within the Catch: How to Write a Feminist Novel About a Complicated Dad

Repetition Ruins a Narrative: On Trying to Create Amid the Sameness of Pandemic Parenting

If They Want to Be Published, Literary Writers Can’t Be Honest About Money

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Sloane Crosley in Defense of New York City’s Single Women

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WATCH: Lisa Taddeo in Conversation with Zosia Mamet

Making History: Six Books That Embrace the 1970s

“Growing Up As a Girl in the Church, I Felt My Position on Earth Was to Serve Men.” A Conversation With Graphic Novelist Jessica Campbell

From Ice Hockey Upsets to the Fastest Man Alive: The Best Books About Underdogs

David Grossman Remembers His Friend, the Novelist AB Yehoshua

Endnotes on Inheritance: Marie-Helene Bertino, Ocean Vuong, and More Voices from Thresholds

Was Bambi an Autobiographical Novel?

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