22 Novels You Need to Read This Fall

22 Novels You Need to Read This Fall

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Not Sure If Your Dialogue Is Any Good? Get an Actor to Perform It

Not Sure If Your Dialogue Is Any Good? Get an Actor to Perform It

Calvin Kasulke on Finding a Good Reason to Write Good Characters

By Calvin Kasulke | August 31, 2021

Mona Awad on the Duality and Universality of Shakespeare

Mona Awad on the Duality and Universality of Shakespeare

This Week on the So Many Damn Books Podcast

By So Many Damn Books | August 31, 2021

Yuval Taylor on Zora Neale Hurston’s Initial Reception

Yuval Taylor on Zora Neale Hurston’s Initial Reception

This Week from the Big Table Podcast with JC Gabel

By Big Table | August 31, 2021

A Very Particular Risk: Aimee Bender on Jane Campion and Kazuo Ishiguro

A Very Particular Risk: Aimee Bender on Jane Campion and Kazuo Ishiguro

Surrendering to Narrative in The Piano and Klara and the Sun

By Aimee Bender | August 30, 2021

The Comical, Ominous Power of a Shakespearean Mob

The Comical, Ominous Power of a Shakespearean Mob

Robert McCrum Explores Popular Revolt in Shakespeare

By Robert McCrum | August 30, 2021

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Imaginary Kingdoms: On the Power of Literature That Speaks to Children and Adults Alike

By Stephen Prickett | August 30, 2021

Who Was Mary Shelley, Daughter?

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On Henry James’s Very Long Short Story

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Christine Mangan on the Delicate Balance of Crafting Suspense

Christine Mangan on the Delicate Balance of Crafting Suspense

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

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How the War Made Wittgenstein the Philosopher He Was

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Richard Barnett Reads the Tractatus as Modernist War Poetry

By Richard Barnett | August 27, 2021

Who Gets To Be <em>Bossypants</em>? On Class and Privilege in Female Comedians’ Memoirs

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Sarah Jaffe on Ellie Kemper, Tina Fey, and Tiffany Haddish

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On Reimagining the Limitless Potential of the Literary Western

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By Gordy Sauer | August 27, 2021

On the Art of the Query: How the Best Kinds of Questions Move Beyond Objectivity

On the Art of the Query: How the Best Kinds of Questions Move Beyond Objectivity

Amy Wright Wonders “What We Can Bear to Learn?”

By Amy Wright | August 27, 2021

Bonnie Friedman on the Pleasure of Diving into Details

Bonnie Friedman on the Pleasure of Diving into Details

"To write well we must sink into the silt of this world."

By Bonnie Friedman | August 27, 2021

Too Close To Home: Writing a Book That Your Parents Won’t Read

Too Close To Home: Writing a Book That Your Parents Won’t Read

Michelle Jana Chan on the Power of Family to Shape Your Own Narrative

By Michelle Jana Chan | August 27, 2021

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