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    First Draft

    “How Do They Explain Themselves to Themselves?” Stacey D’Erasmo on Writing a Financial Crime Novel

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   October 31, 2022
    Write-minded

    Andrea Bartz on Trusting the Craft You Already Know

    By Write-minded   October 31, 2022
    Audiobooks

    AudioFile’s Best
    Audiobooks of October

    By Book Marks  October 31, 2022
    Audiobook Break

    Listen to Chapters 13 and 14 of Dracula

    By Audiobook Break  October 31, 2022
    Behind the Mic

    Now is Not the Time to Panic by Kevin Wilson, Read by Ginnifer Goodwin, and a Note by Kevin Wilson

    By Behind the Mic   October 31, 2022
    Keen On

    How to Come to Terms With Troubling Ancestors

    By Keen On  October 31, 2022
    The Craft of Writing

    Carl Phillips on the Value of Silence for Writers

    By Carl Phillips  October 28, 2022
    Best Reviewed Books of the Month

    What Should You Read Next? Here Are October’s Best Reviewed Books

    By Book Marks  October 28, 2022
    On Memoir

    What I Write in My Journal is Just for Me (It is Not My Memoir)

    By Jeanna Kadlec  October 28, 2022
    Folklore

    When Awe Meets Narrative: On Chasing Local Folklore at the Edge of the Ocean

    By Emily Urquhart  October 28, 2022
    Refugees

    A Sense of Belonging: Inside the Only U.S. School Dedicated to Teaching Refugee Girls

    By Jessica Lander  October 28, 2022
    Keen On

    Either/Or… Neither? Looking Beyond the False Binaries of the Catastrophist Present

    By Andrew Keen  October 28, 2022
    Recipes

    The Recipe You Didn’t Know You Needed: Green Eggs and Ham… and Biscuits!

    By Erin Jeanne McDowell  October 28, 2022
    Narrative

    From the Abstract to the Everyday: How Stories Dominate Every Facet of Our Lives

    By Peter Brooks  October 28, 2022
    Audiobook Break

    Listen to Chapters 11 and 12 of Dracula

    By Audiobook Break  October 28, 2022
    Behind the Mic

    The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell, Read by Genevieve Gaunt, Afterword by Maggie O’Farrell

    By Behind the Mic   October 28, 2022
    Keen On

    The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service

    By Keen On  October 28, 2022
    Keen On

    How Ted Kennedy Became a Great Man When He Was Most Distanced From the U.S. Presidency

    By Keen On  October 28, 2022
    Keen On

    Accidental Kindness: A Doctor’s Thoughts on the Importance of Empathy

    By Keen On  October 28, 2022
    Bookstores

    How Booksellers Conspired to Create the Perfect Bookstore Marriage Proposal

    By Gordon Dossett  October 27, 2022
    Food Writing

    Versatile, Universal, and Delicious: Karon Liu on the Magic of Dumplings

    By Karon Liu  October 27, 2022
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Women Resisting Terror in Iran: Porochista Khakpour on the Historic Protests

    By Fiction Non Fiction  October 27, 2022
    The West

    How the California Gold Rush Destroyed Whatever Peace Existed in the American West

    By Katie Hickman  October 27, 2022
    Reading Lists

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  October 27, 2022
    Life Advice for Book Lovers

    Life Advice for Book Lovers: Finding Solace in the Sad and Sapphic

    By Dorothea   October 27, 2022
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