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Six Cartoonists on Critical Failure, One Panel at a Time

Six Cartoonists on Critical Failure, One Panel at a Time

Barbara Smaller, Edward Koren, Mick Stevens, and More

By Bob Eckstein | October 24, 2019

On the Many Different Engines That Power a Short Story

On the Many Different Engines That Power a Short Story

It's Not Just Plot or Character That Drives Fiction

By Lincoln Michel | October 24, 2019

How Pretending to Be Paul McCartney Helped Me Write My Book

How Pretending to Be Paul McCartney Helped Me Write My Book

"Sometimes Paul McCartney isn’t Paul McCartney at all."

By Karl Whitney | October 24, 2019

The Yale Younger Poets Prize: A Microcosm of the American Poetry Landscape

The Yale Younger Poets Prize: A Microcosm of the American Poetry Landscape

Carl Phillips on Who's Winning the Oldest Annual Literary Award in America

By Carl Phillips | October 23, 2019

Teaching High School Students the Wildness of Poetry

Teaching High School Students the Wildness of Poetry

Nick Ripatrazone Speaks to Poet and Teacher Kerrin McCadden

By Nick Ripatrazone | October 23, 2019

Poet Diana Khoi Nguyen on Family and Writing a Radical Eulogy for Her Brother

Poet Diana Khoi Nguyen on Family and Writing a Radical Eulogy for Her Brother

The Author of Ghost Of in Conversation with Peter Mishler

By Peter Mishler | October 23, 2019

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On the Countercultural Influence of Peanuts

By David L. Ulin | October 22, 2019

On the Darkness, Strangeness, and Unbridled Joy of Children's Books

By Cara Hoffman | October 22, 2019

Remembering Kate Braverman's Los Angeles

By Liska Jacobs | October 22, 2019

Alejandro Zambra on One of the Great Diarists of the 20th Century

Alejandro Zambra on One of the Great Diarists of the 20th Century

Julio Ramon Ribeyro, Descendant of Kafka and Borges, True Skeptic of the Novel

By Alejandro Zambra | October 22, 2019

Marguerite Duras: Internet Essayist?

Marguerite Duras: Internet Essayist?

On Leaving a Public Record of Your Mistakes

By Maddie Crum | October 21, 2019

Capturing Natural Coincidences, in Fiction and Life

Capturing Natural Coincidences, in Fiction and Life

Martha Cooley on the Vajont Disaster, Julio Cortazar, and the Strange Power of Serendipity

By Martha Cooley | October 21, 2019

Do Printed-Out Emails Count As Letters? (Yes)

Do Printed-Out Emails Count As Letters? (Yes)

Dheepa Maturi on the Value of Epistolary Correspondence,
in What Ever Form

By Dheepa R. Maturi | October 21, 2019

On the Sexist Reception of Willa Cather's World War I Novel

On the Sexist Reception of Willa Cather's World War I Novel

From Hemingway to Mencken, No One Thought a Woman Could Write About Combat

By Rebecca Onion | October 21, 2019

Jessica Hagedorn on Writing Experimentally and Trusting the Imagination

Jessica Hagedorn on Writing Experimentally and Trusting the Imagination

In Conversation with Will Schwalbe on But That's Another Story

By But That's Another Story | October 21, 2019

On J.M. Coetzee's <em>Age of Iron</em>: Perennially, Lamentably, Current

On J.M. Coetzee's Age of Iron: Perennially, Lamentably, Current

John Freeman Rereads a Contemporary Classic

By John Freeman | October 18, 2019

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