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    Criticism

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    Conversations

    Interview With a Gatekeeper: Nan Talese

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    Criticism

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    On Racism

    Tracy K. Smith on Race, Love, Hate, and Lucille Clifton

    By Literary Hub  September 7, 2016
    Criticism

    Hitler’s Dog, and Other Problems of Historical Fiction

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    Op-Ed

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    Essay

    Mario Vargas Llosa: How Global Entertainment Killed Culture

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    What to Read

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    Essay

    On Writing, Parenthood and Trying to Stay a Little Wild

    By Laura Cronk  September 2, 2016
    The Art of Editing

    The Editor Inside My Head is a Cruel and Demanding S.O.B.

    By Michael Koryta  September 2, 2016
    Archives

    Lucia Berlin: Writing Advice and More in This Never-Before Published Interview

    By Literary Hub  September 1, 2016
    Advice

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    By Terry McDonell  September 1, 2016
    Conversations

    Ann Goldstein on Translating Elena Ferrante and the Inner Workings of The New Yorker

    By Melinda Harvey  September 1, 2016
    Conversations

    Peter Ho Davies on Moving to America and Mixing History with Invention

    By Lauren Bufferd  September 1, 2016
    Essay

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    By Gabrielle Bellot  August 31, 2016
    Essay

    Becoming a Writer Means Becoming a Cliché

    By Odie Lindsey  August 31, 2016
    Talking shop

    Spread the Word: On Small Presses and the Fight for Publicity

    By Ilana Masad  August 30, 2016
    Excerpts

    Seamus Heaney on William Wordsworth’s One Big Truth

    By Seamus Heaney  August 30, 2016
    Conversations

    Ann Patchett on Stealing Stories, Book Tours, and Staying Off Twitter

    By Mary Laura Philpott  August 29, 2016
    Criticism

    I Love Soap Operas (And They Made Me a Better Writer)

    By Deborah Shapiro  August 29, 2016
    Conversations

    Writing a Novel Limited to the 483 Words Spoken by Ophelia

    By Veronica Esposito  August 29, 2016
    Conversations

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    By Bethanne Patrick  August 26, 2016
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