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Working Your Way Through Depression to Finish a Book

Working Your Way Through Depression to Finish a Book

Jason Diamond on the Importance of Work, and the Struggle to Write

By Jason Diamond | December 22, 2016

<em>Hidden Figures</em> author Margot Lee Shetterly on History, Intersectionality, and Adaptation

Hidden Figures author Margot Lee Shetterly on History, Intersectionality, and Adaptation

"All of us contribute to history"

By Kristen O'Neal | December 21, 2016

On Poverty, Justice, and Writing Sonnets of the South

On Poverty, Justice, and Writing Sonnets of the South

Poet Melissa Range talks to Stephen Burt

By Literary Hub | December 21, 2016

The Last Bookbinder on the Lower East Side

The Last Bookbinder on the Lower East Side

An Ancient Trade, Alive on Henry Street

By Dwyer Murphy | December 21, 2016

The Ghost of Christmas Cheer

The Ghost of Christmas Cheer

How the Holiday's Reception Has Changed Since Dickens' Time

By Timothy Hallinan | December 20, 2016

The Art of Revision: Most of What You Write Should Be Cut

The Art of Revision: Most of What You Write Should Be Cut

Charles Johnson on How to Sculpt a Story

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Basking in Shirley Hazzard's Pure, Cold Light

Mary Duffy Remembers the Shimmering Crispness of Hazzard's Prose

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4 Writers on the Literary Women Who Most Inspire Them

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