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What Makes a Great <br>American Essay?

What Makes a Great
American Essay?

Talking to Phillip Lopate About Thwarted Expectations, Emerson, and the 21st-Century Essay Boom

By Phillip Lopate | November 17, 2020

Betsy Bonner Tracks the Ghost of Her Sister's Life

Betsy Bonner Tracks the Ghost of Her Sister's Life

Piecing Together the Life of the Late Atlantis Black

By Jeannie Vanasco | November 17, 2020

7 of the Year's Best Debut Novelists on Their First<br> Literary Loves

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Featuring Crocodiles, Scary Stories, a Scottish Port Town, and Much More

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Sheila Heti on the Importance of Finding Trusted Readers

Sheila Heti on the Importance of Finding Trusted Readers

"Friends who read drafts of my books are my most cherished readers."

By Sheila Heti | November 16, 2020

Peter Frampton Talks Fame, David Bowie, and <em>The Simpsons</em>

Peter Frampton Talks Fame, David Bowie, and The Simpsons

Dan Sheehan in Conversation with a Classic Rock Icon

By Dan Sheehan | November 16, 2020

On the Power of Essayistic Compression in Flash Nonfiction

On the Power of Essayistic Compression in Flash Nonfiction

Dinty W. Moore Traces the Growth (Contraction?) of a Genre

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When Your Memoir Has the Word 'Rape' in the Title

By Michelle Bowdler | November 16, 2020

Susan Minot: 'Worship Is a Nicer Word than Obsession'

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The Real Golden Age of
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Lily King on Writing the Novel She Needed 30 Years Ago

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"But where were the books about women writers? Where were the books about their struggles?"

By Lily King | November 13, 2020

5 Books You May Have <br>Missed in October

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Rock-and-Roll, Diplomacy, Arms Dealers, Football, and More!

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Kathleen Jennings on the Grim Genre of the Australian Gothic

In Conversation with Gabrielle Mathieu on the New Books Network Podcast

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A Toy, a Tool, a Piece of Art: Sarah Haas on What a Book Can Be

A Toy, a Tool, a Piece of Art: Sarah Haas on What a Book Can Be

"The object gives language a heft that it doesn’t have on its own."

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Eudora Welty: How My Parents Built a Childhood of Books

Eudora Welty: How My Parents Built a Childhood of Books

"I live in gratitude."

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On George Eliot's Uncertain Relationship to Feminism

On George Eliot's Uncertain Relationship to Feminism

Kathy O'Shaughnessy on Her "Liberating Honesty"

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How Sigrid Undset Brought a Medieval Norwegian<br> Epic to Life

How Sigrid Undset Brought a Medieval Norwegian
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Translator Tiina Nunnally on the Making of Olav Audunssøn

By Tiina Nunnally | November 12, 2020

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