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On the Connection Between Chinese Folktales and American Comic Book Heroes

On the Connection Between Chinese Folktales and American Comic Book Heroes

Gene Luen Yang Returns to the Adventures of Sun Wukong,
the Monkey King

By Gene Luen Yang | February 11, 2021

Brandon Hobson on Getting to the Truth Through Surreality

Brandon Hobson on Getting to the Truth Through Surreality

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | February 11, 2021

‘A Certain Kind of Hunger’: Chang-rae Lee on Writing Connection While We're Worlds Apart

‘A Certain Kind of Hunger’: Chang-rae Lee on Writing Connection While We're Worlds Apart

In Conversation with V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell
on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | February 11, 2021

From Stage to Screen to Page... A Few Notes on Writing Across Media

From Stage to Screen to Page... A Few Notes on Writing Across Media

Jen Silverman on Taking Risks and Following Your Artistic Vision

By Jen Silverman | February 11, 2021

Thomas Grattan on Writing a Joyful Queer Protagonist

Thomas Grattan on Writing a Joyful Queer Protagonist

In Conversation with Jackson Howard on Well-Versed

By Well-Versed | February 11, 2021

Emma Copley Eisenberg on the Whiteness and Straightness Embedded in True Crime

Emma Copley Eisenberg on the Whiteness and Straightness Embedded in True Crime

This Week from the Reading Women Podcast

By Reading Women | February 10, 2021

Best Reviewed
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  • Mexico: A 500-Year History

Lesley Storm Reads from Her Poetry Collection, It's About Time

By Damian Barr's Literary Salon | February 10, 2021

Why is 20th-Century Literature So Obsessed with Normality?

By Lit Century | February 9, 2021

Vendela Vida on Finding Humor in the Darker Side of
Teenage Life

By Jane Ciabattari | February 9, 2021

How to Keep Track of Your Characters With Index Cards, String, and a Lot of Clothes Pins

How to Keep Track of Your Characters With Index Cards, String, and a Lot of Clothes Pins

Rebecca Sacks on Managing a Cast of Dozens of Imaginary People

By Bee Sacks | February 9, 2021

Joyce Carol Oates Thinks You Should Write Your Heart Out

Joyce Carol Oates Thinks You Should Write Your Heart Out

A Conversation with the Author of American Melancholy: Poems

By Literary Hub | February 9, 2021

Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

Featuring Te-Ping Chen, Brandon Hobson, Tod Goldberg, and More

By Teddy Wayne | February 9, 2021

A Brief History of Metaphor in <br>Persian Poetry

A Brief History of Metaphor in
Persian Poetry

Dick Davis on Literary Forms That Have Lasted a Thousand Years

By Dick Davis | February 9, 2021

Jenny Offill: Everyone’s Always Hoping for Some Kind of Plot

Jenny Offill: Everyone’s Always Hoping for Some Kind of Plot

This Week on So Many Damn Books

By So Many Damn Books | February 9, 2021

David Duchovny: I Tackle Writer’s Block From Behind

David Duchovny: I Tackle Writer’s Block From Behind

A Conversation with the Author of Truly Like Lightning

By Literary Hub | February 8, 2021

When Talking About Poetry Online <br>Goes Very Wrong

When Talking About Poetry Online
Goes Very Wrong

On Ciaran Carson and the Importance of Low-Stakes Conversations in the “Small Back Room”

By Wayne Miller | February 8, 2021

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