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Neither of Us Likes Parties: Lynn Strong and Rumaan Alam in Conversation

Neither of Us Likes Parties: Lynn Strong and Rumaan Alam in Conversation

On Family, Art, Work, and Alam's Latest Novel
Leave the World Behind

By Lynn Steger Strong | October 13, 2020

Claire Messud in Praise of the Essays That Dwell in Uncertainty

Claire Messud in Praise of the Essays That Dwell in Uncertainty

The Author of Kant's Little Prussian Head Recommends Five Essential Collections

By Claire Messud | October 13, 2020

5 Writers, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

5 Writers, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

Rumaan Alam, Karin Cecile Davidson, and More Take the Lit Hub Questionnaire

By Teddy Wayne | October 13, 2020

<em>Wicked</em> Wouldn't Have Been What It Is If I Hadn't Written the Novel by Hand

Wicked Wouldn't Have Been What It Is If I Hadn't Written the Novel by Hand

Gregory Maguire on the "Word-Pictures" Revealed By Longhand

By Gregory Maguire | October 13, 2020

On Eugenics and Queerness in Djuna Barnes's <em>Nightwood</em>

On Eugenics and Queerness in Djuna Barnes's Nightwood

Introducing Lit Century: 100 Years, 100 Books, a Podcast Hosted by Sandra Newman and Catherine Nichols

By Lit Century | October 13, 2020

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Debra Spark on Doing the Research... Like Asking to See Strangers' Apartments

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | October 13, 2020

On Edgar Allan Poe's Creepy Doppelgänger Story, "William Wilson"

By History of Literature | October 12, 2020

The National Frontman Matt Berninger and Brandon Stosuy on Creativity and Collaboration

By Matt Berninger and Brandon Stosuy | October 9, 2020

Joyce Carol Oates on the Book (and the Person) That Made Her a Writer

Joyce Carol Oates on the Book (and the Person) That Made Her a Writer

In Conversation with Linn Ullmann on the How to Proceed Podcast

By How to Proceed | October 9, 2020

Writer Cristina Rivera Garza in Conversation with Translator Sarah Booker

Writer Cristina Rivera Garza in Conversation with Translator Sarah Booker

About Grieving: Dispatches from a Wounded Country

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5 Great Books You May Have Missed in September

5 Great Books You May Have Missed in September

Including Megan Gail Coles, Anja Kampmann, and More

By Bethanne Patrick | October 9, 2020

Of the Ways in Which Writing is a Material Labor

Of the Ways in Which Writing is a Material Labor

Nick Kary on Building From the Stuff of Life

By Nick Kary | October 9, 2020

Jasper Fforde on Reckoning with Complicity Through Science Fiction

Jasper Fforde on Reckoning with Complicity Through Science Fiction

In Conversation with Rob Wolf on the New Books Network Podcast

By New Books Network | October 9, 2020

Antibody: Starring Makenna Goodman, Hari Kunzru, and Sigrid Nunez

Antibody: Starring Makenna Goodman, Hari Kunzru, and Sigrid Nunez

With Your Host Brian Gresko

By The Antibody Reading Series | October 8, 2020

"I feel like a tracker in the forest following a scent." Louise Glück on how she writes.

By Corinne Segal | October 8, 2020

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