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From Mukasonga to Alexievich, We Need Writers Who Bear Witness

From Mukasonga to Alexievich, We Need Writers Who Bear Witness

Scott Esposito on Staying Clear-Eyed in Dark Times

By Veronica Esposito | April 18, 2017

Something More than Correctness: On Teaching Grace Paley's Essays

Something More than Correctness: On Teaching Grace Paley's Essays

"It’s not their own shame that holds young writers back; it’s ours"

By Scott Korb | April 18, 2017

A Political Conversion on the Way to a Novel

A Political Conversion on the Way to a Novel

Margot Singer on Rediscovering Post-9/11 Complexity

By Margot Singer | April 18, 2017

Louise Glück on Realism and Fantasy

Louise Glück on Realism and Fantasy

"The fantastic exists as hypothesis and dream."

By Louise Gluck | April 18, 2017

Some of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Best Characters Were Dead People

Some of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Best Characters Were Dead People

On Love, Death, and Life in the Work of a Master

By Gabrielle Bellot | April 17, 2017

Mónica de la Torre on Corporatese and the Oppression of Fancy Chairs

Mónica de la Torre on Corporatese and the Oppression of Fancy Chairs

Poets on Life and Craft

By Peter Mishler | April 17, 2017

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Helping My First Generation Students Take Pride in their Personal Essays

By Sonia Taitz | April 13, 2017

David Vann: "If I Miss a Single Morning of Writing, It Changes My Novel"

By David Vann | April 13, 2017

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By Kerri Arsenault | April 13, 2017

Race is the Original American Fiction

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On Reuniting with The Descendants of Thomas Jefferson's Slaves

By Andrew Mitchell Davenport | April 13, 2017

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Lidia Yuknavitch: I Will Always Inhabit the Water

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Louise Erdrich: Among the Living and the Dead in the Turtle Mountains

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Finding Spirits in the Night and Palimpsests of Probability

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Thomas McGuane Remembers His Friend, Jim Harrison

Thomas McGuane Remembers His Friend, Jim Harrison

"In the end, Jim Harrison was a country boy who’d been touched."

By Thomas McGuane | April 12, 2017

Kurt Vonnegut's Greatest Writing Advice

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"Literature should not disappear up its own asshole," and other craft imperatives

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