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Between Fiction and the Brutal Reality of Mexico’s Drug War

Between Fiction and the Brutal Reality of Mexico’s Drug War

An interview with the critic-turned-journalist who inspired a character in Roberto Bolaño’s 2666

By Diego Enrique Osorno | May 2, 2017

5 Writing Retreats To Attend This Summer

5 Writing Retreats To Attend This Summer

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By Emily Temple | May 2, 2017

The Forgotten History of American Working-Class Literature

The Forgotten History of American Working-Class Literature

And the Recent Movement to Restore its Place in the Canon

By Amanda Arnold | May 1, 2017

7 Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me About Writing

7 Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me About Writing

Do the Work, Accept Rejection, Find Community

By Hala Alyan | May 1, 2017

On Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Vladislav Felitsianovich Khodasevich

On Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Vladislav Felitsianovich Khodasevich

Russian Literature Week is Set to Take Over NYC

By Literary Hub | May 1, 2017

Illness as Horror Movie, and Other Thoughts on Time, Disease, and Capitalism

Illness as Horror Movie, and Other Thoughts on Time, Disease, and Capitalism

Matthew Sharpe in Conversation with Anne Elizabeth Moore

By Matthew Sharpe | April 28, 2017

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Emma Straub on the Power of the Indie Bookstore

By Emily Temple | April 27, 2017

How to Make Lauren Groff and Viet Thanh Nguyen's Favorite Cocktails

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The Books That Made Your Favorite Writers Want to Write

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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

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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

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Five Reasons Why a Writer Should Move to Chicago

Five Reasons Why a Writer Should Move to Chicago

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How Hollywood Segregates Eternity

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

By Harmony Holiday | April 26, 2017

When Good People Do Very Bad Things

When Good People Do Very Bad Things

Ayelet Gundar-Goshen Explores Morality Under Pressure in Waking Lions

By Bethanne Patrick | April 25, 2017

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