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What Poetry Can Teach Us About Power

What Poetry Can Teach Us About Power

Political Poems Use Language in a Way Distinct from Rhetoric

By Matthew Zapruder | August 16, 2017

Fact, Fiction, and When a Novel Crosses the Line

Fact, Fiction, and When a Novel Crosses the Line

Joanna Scott on the Illusive Boundaries of Truth and Literature

By Joanna Scott | August 15, 2017

What Does it Mean When We Call a Key a

What Does it Mean When We Call a Key a "Slave"?

On the Power and Responsibility of Metaphor

By Peggy Shinner | August 14, 2017

How to Write This Year’s “Definitive Novel” of the East Village in the 1980s

How to Write This Year’s “Definitive Novel” of the East Village in the 1980s

Jarett Kobek Gives Away His Professional Secrets

By Jarett Kobek | August 14, 2017

Katie Kitamura on Subverting Tropes in <em>A Separation</em>

Katie Kitamura on Subverting Tropes in A Separation

Because All Books Have Dead Women and Tidy Endings

By Emily Temple | August 14, 2017

Writing Just Enough Detail, But Not Too Much

Writing Just Enough Detail, But Not Too Much

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By Daniel Galera | August 14, 2017

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The Useful Dangers of Fairy Tales

By Amber Sparks | August 11, 2017

On Living, and Thinking, in Two Languages at Once

By Camille Bordas | August 11, 2017

How Pickles Help Me Survive the Horrible, Wonderful Life of a Writer

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On Nanni Balestrini, the Most Radically Formalist Poet of the Italian Scene

On Nanni Balestrini, the Most Radically Formalist Poet of the Italian Scene

Both a Literary witness in the Theater of Conflict and an Actor on the Stage

By Franco “Bifo” Berardi | August 11, 2017

How Much of Einstein's Theory of Relativity is in the Writing of Virginia Woolf?

How Much of Einstein's Theory of Relativity is in the Writing of Virginia Woolf?

Gabrielle Bellot on the Bloomsbury Writer's Fixation on Contemporary Science

By Gabrielle Bellot | August 10, 2017

Charlie Jane Anders on Writing the Future

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When the Drone Strikes in Your Story Become the Drone Strikes in the Sky

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Toward a New Climate Change Genre: First Impact Fiction

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Ashley Shelby: The Apocalypse is Now

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Lindsay Hunter on Parenthood, Binge-Eating, and Assless Pants

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The Author of Eat Only When You’re Hungry is Actually Trying to Be Subtle

By Maddie Crum | August 9, 2017

Speaking with Novelist-Screenwriters Tom Perrotta and Noah Hawley

Speaking with Novelist-Screenwriters Tom Perrotta and Noah Hawley

On Mrs. Fletcher, The Leftovers, Collaboration, and More

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Good Memoir Comes From Saying What Can't Be Said

Good Memoir Comes From Saying What Can't Be Said

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