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From the Diaries of Helen Garner: The Trials of
Daily Life, c. 1979
“Memo: do not drink coffee. It engenders baseless optimism about
my powers of creation.”
By
Freeman's
| December 9, 2019
Umberto Eco on the Elusive Concept of Ugliness
Considering the Relativity of Beauty in Human History
By
Umberto Eco
| December 9, 2019
The Default of American Fiction Can No Longer Be White and Male
Nadeem Zaman on Being a South-Asian Writer in America
By
Nadeem Zaman
| December 9, 2019
Ophelia and After: Inventing the
Lonely Literary Woman
Cleo Qian on Vivian Gornick, Ottessa Moshfegh, Sayaka Murata, and More
By
Cleo Qian
| December 6, 2019
Bohumil Hrabal, the Writing Machine Who Couldn't Stop
The Czech Writer Remembers What It Was to
Fall in Love with Literature
By
Bohumil Hrabal
| December 6, 2019
The Letters of Ralph Ellison: On the Making of a Literary Giant
John F. Callahan Looks at What Decades of Correspondence Can Reveal
By
John F. Callahan
| December 6, 2019
Best Reviewed
Books of the Week
How Journalism Made a
Poet Out of Me
By
Gillian Conoley
| December 6, 2019
The Unapologetic Politics
of Howard Fast
By
Mark Harris
| December 6, 2019
Creating Literary Community for Writers Raising Children
By
Matt Grant
| December 6, 2019
Charles Wright's Resistance Against Certainty
Mary Szybist on the Poetics of Her Former Teacher
By
Mary Szybist
| December 5, 2019
Inès Cagnati: The Insider Who Always Felt Like an Outsider
Liesl Schillinger on the French Novelist Who Wrote
Powerfully of the Immigrant Experience
By
Liesl Schillinger
| December 5, 2019
Ann and Jeff VanderMeer Talk Classic Fantasy, Fearsome Ducks, and Dead Astronauts
Live from the Miami Book Fair with
Fiction/Non/Fiction
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Fiction Non Fiction
| December 5, 2019
Reading the Unpublished Novel My Mother Took
30 Years to Write
Caroline Scott on Realizing an Unlikely Family Dream
By
Caroline Scott
| December 5, 2019
The Impostor Poets of Iceland Issue a Manifesto
"Critics still don’t entirely know what to do with us."
By
Literary Hub
| December 4, 2019
What Your Draft (and Its Problems) Says About You
Helen Betya Rubinstein on Finding Clarity in Confusion
By
Helen Betya Rubinstein
| December 4, 2019
Naja Marie Aidt on Creating Meaning from the Meaninglessness of Grief
John Freeman in Conversation with the Author of
When Death Takes Something from You Give It Back
By
John Freeman
| December 3, 2019
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