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The Books That Made Your Favorite Writers Want to Write

The Books That Made Your Favorite Writers Want to Write

From Eileen Myles to Zadie Smith

By Emily Temple | April 26, 2017

Why You Shouldn't Get Into a Fight With Jane Smiley

Why You Shouldn't Get Into a Fight With Jane Smiley

Claire Cameron on Finding the Strength to Commit to Her Fictional History

By Claire Cameron | April 26, 2017

Hannah Tinti Learns to Shoot a Gun

Hannah Tinti Learns to Shoot a Gun

In Conversation with the Author of The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley

By Kyle Lucia Wu | April 26, 2017

Translating This Broken World: How to Tell a Refugee's Story

Translating This Broken World: How to Tell a Refugee's Story

Valeria Luiselli and Mark Lyons Reveal the Human Details of Our Inhumanity

By Nathaniel Popkin | April 26, 2017

Five Reasons Why a Writer Should Move to Chicago

Five Reasons Why a Writer Should Move to Chicago

None of Them Are Pizza

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How Hollywood Segregates Eternity

How Hollywood Segregates Eternity

Harmony Holiday on the Misrepresented Layers of the Black Experience in the West

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A Twang or a Drawl? The Art of the Audiobook Southern Accent

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What Goes Into Recording Stories Set Below the Mason-Dixon Line

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Allen Ginsberg's Definition of the Beat Generation

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