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How to Survive One of the World's Biggest Literary Festivals

How to Survive One of the World's Biggest Literary Festivals

10 Questions for Peter Florence of the Hay Festival

By Literary Hub | May 21, 2018

A Close Reading of <em>True Grit</em>'s Perfect First Paragraph

A Close Reading of True Grit's Perfect First Paragraph

Charles Portis’s Classic as an Object Lesson in Creating Character

By Emily Temple | May 18, 2018

The Truth of Ray Bradbury's Prophetic Vision

The Truth of Ray Bradbury's Prophetic Vision

Michael Moorcock: Why Fahrenheit 451 Endures

By Michael Moorcock | May 18, 2018

The Power of W. G. Sebald's Small Silences

The Power of W. G. Sebald's Small Silences

Even His Punctuation Gestured Toward the Trauma of History

By Nathan Goldman | May 18, 2018

Be a Better Reader: Get Outside Your Genre Comfort Zone

Be a Better Reader: Get Outside Your Genre Comfort Zone

On the Dangers of Narrowly Marketed Book Categories

By Randall Klein | May 18, 2018

Celebrating the Art of the Book Cover

Celebrating the Art of the Book Cover

Peter Mendelsund, Jaya Miceli, Oliver Munday, Helen Yentus, and 100 Beautiful Books

By Literary Hub | May 17, 2018

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Rereading Little Women in its 150th Anniversary Year

By Rebecca Foster | May 16, 2018

Tom Wolfe on the Writer's Hippocratic Oath: "First, Entertain."

By John Freeman | May 16, 2018

On Soseki's Bitingly Critical Novel, I Am a Cat

By John Nathan | May 16, 2018

Michelle Tea on Failure, Trump Voters, and Her Fantasy for the World

Michelle Tea on Failure, Trump Voters, and Her Fantasy for the World

Let People Figure Out How to Live their Best Lives"">"Stop Being so Uptight and Boring and Xenophobic and Just
Let People Figure Out How to Live their Best Lives"

By Carley Moore | May 15, 2018

George Saunders on the Emotional Realism of Bobbie Ann Mason

George Saunders on the Emotional Realism of Bobbie Ann Mason

Her Fiction is a Scale Model Where People Wander Beautiful, Hostile Dreamscapes

By George Saunders | May 15, 2018

William Trevor in America

William Trevor in America

Patrick Cox on his father's travels across the USA

By Patrick Cox | May 15, 2018

On the Strange, Artistic World of Marfa, Texas

On the Strange, Artistic World of Marfa, Texas

Twilight Zone Episode"">"Whenever I’m in Marfa I Feel like I’m in a Twilight Zone Episode"

By Lawrence Wright | May 14, 2018

How I Learned to Claim Space as a Multilingual Author

How I Learned to Claim Space as a Multilingual Author

YZ Chin on Choosing to Write in a "Colonizer's Language"

By YZ Chin | May 14, 2018

The Unexpected Poetry of Sleeping Outside

The Unexpected Poetry of Sleeping Outside

"I’d Rather Be Huddled Somewhere and a Little Underprepared"

By Ben Shattuck | May 14, 2018

Transcendent Compositions: On Making Perfume and Writing Fiction

Transcendent Compositions: On Making Perfume and Writing Fiction

"They Are Ways to Escape Material Borders—And My Body"

By TANAÏS | May 11, 2018

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