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Jeff VanderMeer and Lili Taylor Talk Books, Birds, and Beauty

Why Budding Writers Should Be Less Precious—and More Cutthroat—with Their Drafts

Diane Seuss: Does Language Eclipse Feeling?

Unpacking the Enigma of George Orwell

John Cheever and Djuna Barnes, Patron Literary Saints of Suburbia and Bohemia, Died This Day in 1982.

Ten Things Writers Need to Create Convincing Characters

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When an Avowed Helicopter Parent Writes a Novel About Imperiled Children

Andy Weir on the Problem of Interstellar Travel

On Juneteenth and the Struggle to Commemorate and Make Sense of Protest and Rebellion

Marie-Helene Bertino on Using Humor to Connect with Readers

Silvia Spring on Living Abroad and Writing in Community

On the Self-Education of Frederick Douglass, Malcolm X, and the Insatiable Quest for Literacy

What We’re Getting Wrong About So-Called Internet Literature

Lessons in Teaching: When Your Student’s a Better Writer Than You Are

On My Most Embarrassing Literary Encounters (So Far)

Lessons in Forgiveness and Intergenerational Feminism

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