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When You Learn Your Mother Was a Serious Writer Only After She’s Gone

When You Learn Your Mother Was a Serious Writer Only After She’s Gone

Michael Bourne Remembers His Mother, Nancy Bourne, Author of Spotswood, Virginia

By Michael Bourne | May 6, 2022

Why It’s Good News That Bad Mothers Are All the Rage on the Page and the Screen

Why It’s Good News That Bad Mothers Are All the Rage on the Page and the Screen

Emma Knight on Finding the Reality of Motherhood Represented in Fiction

By Emma Knight | May 6, 2022

Vauhini Vara on Keeping a Long Writing Project Alive

Vauhini Vara on Keeping a Long Writing Project Alive

Writing as Endurance

By Vauhini Vara | May 6, 2022

Trieste vs. Milan, Poetry vs. Plot: Beppe Severgnini on the Italian Love—And Need—For Poetry

Trieste vs. Milan, Poetry vs. Plot: Beppe Severgnini on the Italian Love—And Need—For Poetry

“Poetry belongs not only to those who write it but also to those who read it and listen to it.”

By Beppe Severgnini | May 6, 2022

Can Conservatives Be Funny?

Can Conservatives Be Funny?

Nick Marx in Conversation with Andrew Keen

By Keen On | May 6, 2022

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

Featuring new titles by Colin Barrett, Ali Smith, Antonia Fraser, Monica Ali, and more

By Book Marks | May 6, 2022

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The Moral Case for Demilitarizing the Southern Border

By Keen On | May 6, 2022

Westworld Meets Edgar Allan Poe: Sara M. Mueller on Creating the World of The Bone Orchard

By New Books Network | May 6, 2022

Praise Osawaru on Writing About the Erotic... Through Weather

By Micro Podcast | May 6, 2022

Douglas Stuart on the Strangeness of Sharing Your Own Grief and Loss in Fiction

Douglas Stuart on the Strangeness of Sharing Your Own Grief and Loss in Fiction

In Conversation with Mitchell Kaplan on The Literary Life Podcast

By The Literary Life | May 6, 2022

'Pemi Aguda on the Influence of Miami on Her Upcoming Novel

'Pemi Aguda on the Influence of Miami on Her Upcoming Novel

In Conversation with Miami Book Fair's Emerging Writer Fellow

By Literary Hub | May 5, 2022

How Did James Baldwin Become a 21st-Century Influencer?

How Did James Baldwin Become a 21st-Century Influencer?

Marc Lamont Hill and Todd Brewster on the Blessing and Curse of Shareability on Twitter

By Marc Lamont Hill and Todd Brewster | May 5, 2022

What It Means to Anthologize the Literature of Abortion

What It Means to Anthologize the Literature of Abortion

Annie Finch, Editor of Choice Words: Writers on Abortion, in Conversation with Some Contributors

By Literary Hub | May 5, 2022

Vauhini Vara on Grounding Fiction with Cultural Touchstones

Vauhini Vara on Grounding Fiction with Cultural Touchstones

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | May 5, 2022

There Is Grace in Patience: On the Writing Lessons of Tarot

There Is Grace in Patience: On the Writing Lessons of Tarot

Abbigail Nguyen Rosewood Considers Trust, Discovery, and Dreaming While Awake

By Abbigail Nguyen Rosewood | May 5, 2022

In Memoriam: Sergio Chejfec

In Memoriam: Sergio Chejfec

Translator Heather Cleary Remembers Her Friend, the Argentinean Writer

By Heather Cleary | May 5, 2022

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