Has the Parent Plot Ousted the Marriage Plot in Contemporary Fiction?

Has the Parent Plot Ousted the Marriage Plot in Contemporary Fiction?

Peter Ho Davies Reflects on the New Coming-of-Age Moment

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Can We Stop Underrating<br> Shirley Jackson Now?

Can We Stop Underrating
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<em>Lit Disco</em>’s Best Picks of the Worst Year

Lit Disco’s Best Picks of the Worst Year

Tod, Rider, and Julia Take on the Year 2020

By Literary Disco | January 5, 2021

How to Render Epiphanies in Nonfiction Without Getting Didactic

How to Render Epiphanies in Nonfiction Without Getting Didactic

Randon Billings Noble Considers Moments of Clarity Between the Lines

By Randon Billings Noble | January 4, 2021

Stories About Girls, Sex, and Power Are Vital—If We're Brave Enough to Look

Stories About Girls, Sex, and Power Are Vital—If We're Brave Enough to Look

On Watching Cuties, Teaching Lolita, and Moral Panic

By Jerrine Tan | January 4, 2021

Emma Glass on the Ghost Story (and Nursing Career) That Inspired Her Novel

Emma Glass on the Ghost Story (and Nursing Career) That Inspired Her Novel

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

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Chekhov's Three Sisters: Comedy, Tragedy, or Foreshadowing of the Bolshevik Revolution?

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Daniel Halpern on 50 Years of Ecco Press

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Jenny Erpenbeck: 'If Words Are Not Enough Anymore, the Violence Enters'

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The Literary Risk-Takers: On New Migrant and Refugee Fiction

The Literary Risk-Takers: On New Migrant and Refugee Fiction

John Domini Considers the Work of Viet Than Nguyen, Teju Cole, Dubravka Ugresic, and More

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Kiese Laymon: Precious Writers Have Omission, Not Subtext

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Maggie Smith on Finding Hope on Twitter

Maggie Smith on Finding Hope on Twitter

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