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Don't Be a Dick: Colum McCann's Advice to Young Writers

Don't Be a Dick: Colum McCann's Advice to Young Writers

On the Importance of Kindness and Reading Widely

By Colum McCann | April 3, 2017

Is Your Name Your Destiny?

Is Your Name Your Destiny?

On the Intrinsic Power of What People Call (and Miscall) You

By Catherine Buni | April 3, 2017

I Love <em>The Great Gatsby</em>, Even if it Doesn't Love Me Back

I Love The Great Gatsby, Even if it Doesn't Love Me Back

On Difficult Characters and the Unbearable Whiteness of Classic Literature

By Stephanie Powell Watts | April 3, 2017

On the Philosophical Implications of Shelving Books

On the Philosophical Implications of Shelving Books

Or, the Time I Reorganized the Cook Books at BookCourt

By John Sherman | March 31, 2017

What Does it Mean to Set Your Novel at Harvard?

What Does it Mean to Set Your Novel at Harvard?

On The Idiot and the Evolution of the Campus Novel

By Amelia Ayrelan Iuvino | March 31, 2017

We Are All Detectives Now: When Literary Plots Get Mysterious

We Are All Detectives Now: When Literary Plots Get Mysterious

On Recent Novels by Katie Kitamura, Patty Yumi Cottrell, and More

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The Unglamorous Ordeal of Recording Your Own Audiobook

By John Freeman Gill | March 29, 2017

The Making of a Tireless Literary Translator

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Life Advice From Adrienne Rich

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Greg Iles: In Praise of Larry McMurtry (Postmodernists, Not So Much)

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In Which Jonathan Lethem and Heidi Julavits Talk About Movies

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Instead of Writing, I Watched Trains

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Do Dogs Have Souls? And Other Questions from Jim Harrison

Do Dogs Have Souls? And Other Questions from Jim Harrison

When in Doubt, Head for Deeper Waters

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