Writing from Home: Lessons from a Novelist-Slash-Small-Town Newspaper Columnist

Writing from Home: Lessons from a Novelist-Slash-Small-Town Newspaper Columnist

Nickolas Butler on Writing as an Act of Service and the Power of Local News

By Nickolas Butler | October 18, 2021

“The Anti-James Bond.” Read This Early Review of <em>Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy</em>

“The Anti-James Bond.” Read This Early Review of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

How John le Carré's Masterpiece Was First Received

By Book Marks | October 18, 2021

How Do You Write About People Who Don’t Want To Be Written About?

How Do You Write About People Who Don’t Want To Be Written About?

Ethan Lou on Unauthorized Biographies and Uncomfortable Writing

By Ethan Lou | October 18, 2021

On the Historical Stigmatization and Persistent Vilification of Epilepsy in Literature

On the Historical Stigmatization and Persistent Vilification of Epilepsy in Literature

Louise Fein Considers How the Misunderstood Neurological Disorder Has Been Unfairly Portrayed in Popular Fiction

By Louise Fein | October 18, 2021

Richard Powers on the Duplicity of Bewilderment

Richard Powers on the Duplicity of Bewilderment

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | October 18, 2021

On the Compulsion and Seduction of Mystery Tales

On the Compulsion and Seduction of Mystery Tales

From the History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | October 18, 2021

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Oedipus at the Bellevue Men’s Shelter: How Sophocles Speaks to Contemporary Trauma

By Bryan Doerries | October 18, 2021

Betsy Bonner on Wuthering Heights, Bluets, and Mary Gaitskill's Sex Scenes

By Book Marks | October 18, 2021

Read Ezra Pound’s extensive revisions to T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land.

By Vanessa Willoughby | October 15, 2021

Jonathan Franzen on Reckoning with the Limits and Purposes of Writing Novels

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This Week on the Radio Open Source Podcast

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A Compendium of Literary Ravens

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Angus Hyland and Caroline Roberts Catalogue the Corvids of Aesop, Dickens, and More

By Angus Hyland and Caroline Roberts | October 15, 2021

Marguerite Duras on Finding Stories Everywhere

Marguerite Duras on Finding Stories Everywhere

“Around us, everything is writing.”

By Marguerite Duras | October 15, 2021

5 Books You May Have Missed in September

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Bethanne Patrick Recommends Debuts, Translated Fiction, and More

By Bethanne Patrick | October 15, 2021

“A Glorious Mess.” On Confronting the Complexities of Storytelling with Anthony Bourdain

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Tom Vitale Recounts Time as His Late Friend’s Director and Producer

By Tom Vitale | October 15, 2021

Finding Freedom from the Chokehold of Modern Capitalism in <em>Nomadland</em>

Finding Freedom from the Chokehold of Modern Capitalism in Nomadland

Sara Zarr on the Allure of a Minimalist Life

By Sara Zarr | October 15, 2021

Alfred Molina on His Genre- and Character-Spanning Career

Alfred Molina on His Genre- and Character-Spanning Career

In Conversation with Josephine Reed for AudioFile Magazine

By Behind the Mic | October 15, 2021

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