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Finding Your True Self in Middle Age: Ten Midlife Coming-of-Age Novels

Finding Your True Self in Middle Age: Ten Midlife Coming-of-Age Novels

Sarah McCraw Crow on the Richest Time for Finding Our Truer Selves

By Sarah McCraw Crow | July 21, 2022

On Finding the Strangeness in the Mundane, and Vice Versa

On Finding the Strangeness in the Mundane, and Vice Versa

Alanna Schubach on Balancing the Fantastical with the Familiar

By Alanna Schubach | July 21, 2022

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

How a Lord of the Rings and Dungeons & Dragons Crossover Almost Happened

Ben Riggs on Missed Possibilities in the World of Roleplay Gaming

By Ben Riggs | July 20, 2022

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

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

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

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