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Genre Euphoria: Why More Poets Should Read (and Write) Romance Fiction

Genre Euphoria: Why More Poets Should Read (and Write) Romance Fiction

Elaina Ellis on the Basic Human Need to Tell Love Stories of All Stripes

By Elaina Ellis | June 10, 2024

In Praise of the Paranormal Curiosity of Charles Fort, Patron Saint of Cranks

In Praise of the Paranormal Curiosity of Charles Fort, Patron Saint of Cranks

Ed Simon on the Porous, Ever-Shifting Boundaries Between Science and Speculation

By Ed Simon | June 10, 2024

Alan Felsenthal on Precision in Poems, the Mundane as Sacred, and Capturing the “Feeling” of Life

Alan Felsenthal on Precision in Poems, the Mundane as Sacred, and Capturing the “Feeling” of Life

A Conversation with the Author of “Hereafter”

By Literary Hub | June 10, 2024

Ten Debut LGBTQ+ Authors on the Books That Shaped Them As Writers

Ten Debut LGBTQ+ Authors on the Books That Shaped Them As Writers

Jiaming Tang, Jessie Ren Marshall, Brittany Rogers, Alana Saab and Many More Reflect on Their Formative Texts

By Samantha Paige Rosen | June 7, 2024

John Kaag on the Bloods, the Little-Known Dynasty that Shaped American Life and Philosophy

John Kaag on the Bloods, the Little-Known Dynasty that Shaped American Life and Philosophy

The Author of “American Bloods” in Conversation with James Hibbard

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What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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“Wade Into the Muck With Me.” On Reading and Re-Reading Elena Ferrante

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Gina Frangello Considers Her Personal History in Relation to the Neapolitan Quartet

By Gina Frangello | June 6, 2024

Necessary Yet Invisible: On the Unpaid Labor of Motherhood and Writing

Necessary Yet Invisible: On the Unpaid Labor of Motherhood and Writing

Claire Kilroy Considers Women’s Work at Home and on the Page

By Claire Kilroy | June 6, 2024

Ten Years Later: Reading Laura van den Berg’s Timeless Classic, <em>The Isle of Youth</em>

Ten Years Later: Reading Laura van den Berg’s Timeless Classic, The Isle of Youth

Kyle Dillon Hertz on the Book That Guided His Ambition to Be a Writer

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The Annotated Nightstand: What Morgan Talty Is Reading Now, and Next

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Akuna Robinson on Going the Distance

Akuna Robinson on Going the Distance

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By Fiction Non Fiction | June 6, 2024

“At the Coal Seam of Motherhood.” On Writing About My Kids

“At the Coal Seam of Motherhood.” On Writing About My Kids

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Appreciating the Understated Complexity of <em>The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing</em>

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