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The Lights Don’t Just Go Out: A Lifelong Fainter on How Fiction Gets Fainting All Wrong

The Lights Don’t Just Go Out: A Lifelong Fainter on How Fiction Gets Fainting All Wrong

Sophie Brickman on “Charlotte's Web,” JD Salinger, and Capturing Fainting from the Fainter’s Perspective

By Sophie Brickman | August 6, 2024

A Monstrous Spiral: How Narrative Form Can Bring a Story to Life

A Monstrous Spiral: How Narrative Form Can Bring a Story to Life

Jane Alison on Fictionalizing the Tumultuous and Toxic Relationship Between Architects Eileen Gray and Le Corbusier

By Jane Alison | August 6, 2024

Sanity Is Relative: Melissa Broder on Elaine Kraf’s <em>The Princess of 72nd Street</em>

Sanity Is Relative: Melissa Broder on Elaine Kraf’s The Princess of 72nd Street

Considering the Blurred Boundaries Between States of Mania and States of Spiritual Grace

By Melissa Broder | August 6, 2024

Alisa Alering on Being the Mountain

Alisa Alering on Being the Mountain

In Conversation with Lindsay Hunter on I'm a Writer But

By I'm a Writer But | August 6, 2024

Slippery, Slimy and Sublime: On Our Fascination with Eels

Slippery, Slimy and Sublime: On Our Fascination with Eels

Ellen Ruppel Shell Goes Deep on the Cultural Life of the Anguillidae

By Ellen Ruppel Shell | August 5, 2024

Why Methane Removal Might Be Our Best Bet to Stop Rising Global Temperatures

Why Methane Removal Might Be Our Best Bet to Stop Rising Global Temperatures

Rob Jackson Suggests Ways Businesses, Scientists and Governments Can Work Together to Clean the Atmosphere

By Rob Jackson | August 5, 2024

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How Catalyst and Iskanchi Press Are Bringing African Writers’ Work to a Wider Audience

By Jessica Powers | August 5, 2024

Should Humanity Pay the Ultimate Price For Its Crimes Against Nature?

By Todd May | August 5, 2024

Jill Ciment on Struggling With Certainty

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | August 5, 2024

Lisa Leshne and Kathleen Schmidt Offer Publishing Advice From the Trenches

Lisa Leshne and Kathleen Schmidt Offer Publishing Advice From the Trenches

From the Write-minded Podcast, Hosted by Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner

By Memoir Nation | August 5, 2024

We Are All Nobody: Mary Jo Salter on Finding Beauty and Community in Poetry

We Are All Nobody: Mary Jo Salter on Finding Beauty and Community in Poetry

“Let’s try to put our own vanities aside when we write poems, and let’s read the poems by other people that make us feel most alive.”

By Mary Jo Salter | August 3, 2024

James Baldwin and the Roots of Black-Palestinian Solidarity

James Baldwin and the Roots of Black-Palestinian Solidarity

Alexander Durie Considers the Evolution of Baldwin’s Views on Zionism

By Alexander Durie | August 2, 2024

True Crime and Transcendentalists: When Designing a Book Cover Takes You on a Long Strange Trip

True Crime and Transcendentalists: When Designing a Book Cover Takes You on a Long Strange Trip

Natalia Olbinski on Creating the Cover for Ruby Todd’s “Bright Objects”

By Natalia Olbinski | August 2, 2024

Towards Universality: On Reading—and Rereading—James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues”

Towards Universality: On Reading—and Rereading—James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues”

Tom Jenks Considers the Eternal Power of a Masterpiece of American Short Fiction

By Tom Jenks | August 2, 2024

Colm Tóibín on James Baldwin’s Enduring, International Influence

Colm Tóibín on James Baldwin’s Enduring, International Influence

Caoilinn Hughes in Conversation with the Author of “On James Baldwin”

By Caoilinn Hughes | August 2, 2024

Bret Anthony Johnson on Creating a Story’s Foundation

Bret Anthony Johnson on Creating a Story’s Foundation

"In fiction, place is where the writer and reader first collaborate."

By Bret Anthony Johnson | August 2, 2024

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