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Here are a few of John Updike’s kindest, most cutting literary pans.

Here are a few of John Updike’s kindest, most cutting literary pans.

By Walker Caplan | March 18, 2021

Elon Green on Centering Victims Rather than Killers

Elon Green on Centering Victims Rather than Killers

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | March 18, 2021

Sixty Years of Tracking Publications... and Rejections

Sixty Years of Tracking Publications... and Rejections

Jay Neugeboren on Coming to Terms With What Matters in a Life of Writing

By Jay Neugeboren | March 18, 2021

Immobilized and in Love with Albertine Sarrazin, Patron Saint of Delinquent Writers

Immobilized and in Love with Albertine Sarrazin, Patron Saint of Delinquent Writers

“I cannot move. Sarrazin comes to my aid.”

By Cora Womble-Miesner | March 18, 2021

Imagining Isolation: When the Plots of Your Fiction Spill Into the Real World

Imagining Isolation: When the Plots of Your Fiction Spill Into the Real World

Paul Lynch on Life and Literature in COVID Lockdown

By Paul Lynch | March 18, 2021

On Tove Ditlevsen and the Tradition of Women Writing Autofiction

On Tove Ditlevsen and the Tradition of Women Writing Autofiction

Ruby Brunton Considers the Work of Ditlevsen, Marguerite Duras, and Vanessa Springora

By Ruby Brunton | March 18, 2021

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This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: The Price of Peace by Zachary D. Carter

By Elizabeth Taylor | March 18, 2021

Finding Home: On the Journey Back to Writing as a Single Mother

By Kelly McMasters | March 17, 2021

On the Case for Meanness in Fiction

By Brock Clarke | March 17, 2021

At New Directions University: Literary and Life Lessons from an Iconic Publisher

At New Directions University: Literary and Life Lessons from an Iconic Publisher

Mark Haber Traces an Indispensable Influence on His Reading
and Writing Life

By Mark Haber | March 17, 2021

Why So Many Novelists Write About Writers

Why So Many Novelists Write About Writers

David Laskin on an Unyielding Literary Paradox

By David Laskin | March 17, 2021

Vivian Gornick on the Magnetism of Edna St. Vincent Millay

Vivian Gornick on the Magnetism of Edna St. Vincent Millay

Looking Back at the "Wild and Elusive" Poet

By Vivian Gornick | March 17, 2021

Tell Don’t Show? What Brain Imaging Reveals About Readers

Tell Don’t Show? What Brain Imaging Reveals About Readers

Lisa Cron on What We Really Want From a Story

By Lisa Cron | March 17, 2021

Esmé Weijun Wang on the Physical and Visceral Act of Writing

Esmé Weijun Wang on the Physical and Visceral Act of Writing

From the Thresholds Podcast, Hosted by Jordan Kisner

By Thresholds | March 17, 2021

Why Do Readers Have Such Strong Feelings About Nabokov?

Why Do Readers Have Such Strong Feelings About Nabokov?

Robert Alter on Nabokov’s Literary Invention

By Robert Alter | March 17, 2021

Talia Hibbert on Inviting Disabled, Chronically Ill, and Neurodivergent Characters into Rom-Coms

Talia Hibbert on Inviting Disabled, Chronically Ill, and Neurodivergent Characters into Rom-Coms

This Week on the Reading Women Podcast

By Reading Women | March 17, 2021

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