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This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: <em>The Equivalents</em> by Maggie Doherty

This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: The Equivalents by Maggie Doherty

Tara Wanda Merrigan on One of the Finalists for Biography

By Tara Wanda Merrigan | March 19, 2021

Lauren Willig on Recounting the Everyday Heroism of WWI War Relief

Lauren Willig on Recounting the Everyday Heroism of WWI War Relief

In Conversation with C.P. Lesley on the New Books Network Podcast

By New Books Network | March 19, 2021

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

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  • Autobiography of Cotton
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  • Second Skin: Inside the Worlds of Fetish, Kink, and Deviant Desire

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

By Paul Lynch | March 18, 2021

On Tove Ditlevsen and the Tradition of Women Writing Autofiction

By Ruby Brunton | March 18, 2021

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

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

Kelly McMasters: “My own writing, meanwhile, was like a distant song.”

By Kelly McMasters | March 17, 2021

On the Case for Meanness in Fiction

On the Case for Meanness in Fiction

Brock Clarke: What Makes a Good Person Doesn’t Usually Make for a Good Story

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

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