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Kurt Vonnegut Really, Really Hated Guns

Kurt Vonnegut Really, Really Hated Guns

“I wouldn’t have one of the motherfuckers in my house for anything.”

By Chuck Augello | August 26, 2019

Writing the Impossible Grief of Very Young Widowhood

Writing the Impossible Grief of Very Young Widowhood

Kelsey Ronan on Finding the Right Words

By Kelsey Ronan | August 26, 2019

Pamela Paul on Her Long Path to Becoming a Writer and Editor

Pamela Paul on Her Long Path to Becoming a Writer and Editor

Will Schwalbe Talks to the New York Times Editor
on But That's Another Story

By But That's Another Story | August 26, 2019

Jenny Zhang on Reading <em>Little Women</em> and Wanting to Be Like Jo March

Jenny Zhang on Reading Little Women and Wanting to Be Like Jo March

Looking to Louisa May Alcott's Heroine for Inspiration

By Jenny Zhang | August 23, 2019

Susan Steinberg on the Value of Writing an Ugly Draft

Susan Steinberg on the Value of Writing an Ugly Draft

The Author of Machine in Conversation About Craft with Diane Cook

By Diane Cook | August 23, 2019

Suketu Mehta on Fighting <br>Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric and Racist Populism in Trump’s America

Suketu Mehta on Fighting
Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric and Racist Populism in Trump’s America

The Author of This Land is Our Land in Conversation with Dylan Foley

By Dylan Foley | August 23, 2019

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Why Do I Recite the Same Paul Celan Poem to All My Dates?

By Sara Martin | August 22, 2019

Dorothy Parker on the Art of Her Old Pal James Thurber

By Dorothy Parker | August 22, 2019

Reading David Remnick 25 Years After the Fall of the Soviet Union

By Luke Harding | August 22, 2019

J.M.G. Le Clézio on the Expansive, Immersive Quality of Great Poetry

J.M.G. Le Clézio on the Expansive, Immersive Quality of Great Poetry

“The poem carries us towards other regions on earth, northwards.”

By J. M. G. Le Clézio | August 22, 2019

Lara Vapnyar on the Book That Made Her Weep For Hours

Lara Vapnyar on the Book That Made Her Weep For Hours

On Margarita Khemlin's Novel Klotsvog

By Lara Vapnyar | August 22, 2019

Reading in a Boom Time of Biographical Fiction

Reading in a Boom Time of Biographical Fiction

Jay Parini on the Art of Inventing Real Life

By Jay Parini | August 21, 2019

Hans Christian Andersen, Original Literary Softboi

Hans Christian Andersen, Original Literary Softboi

Bookish Ambition! Awkward Gentleness! Goth Sexiness! He Had It All

By Boze Herrington | August 21, 2019

Walter Mosley in Conversation with Legendary Filmmaker Walter Bernstein

Walter Mosley in Conversation with Legendary Filmmaker Walter Bernstein

In Celebration of Bernstein's 100th Birthday

By Walter Mosley | August 20, 2019

Whatever Your Classroom, Please Teach More Living Poets

Whatever Your Classroom, Please Teach More Living Poets

Nick Ripatrazone on the Benefits of Studying
“breathing, human artists.”

By Nick Ripatrazone | August 20, 2019

The Ways in Which Writing May or May Not Resemble Sex

The Ways in Which Writing May or May Not Resemble Sex

Nicola Waldron Wonders if Writing Can Be a Kink

By Nicola Waldron | August 20, 2019

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