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Saying the Unsayable, and Listening to Silence: Jon Fosse on How Writing Plays Transformed His Craft

Saying the Unsayable, and Listening to Silence: Jon Fosse on How Writing Plays Transformed His Craft

From the Author’s Nobel Lecture in “A Silent Language”

By Jon Fosse | May 13, 2024

Reading Radically: A Reading List of the 1960s and 70s Protest Movements to Understand Activism Today

Reading Radically: A Reading List of the 1960s and 70s Protest Movements to Understand Activism Today

Jessica Shattuck Recommends Cathy Wilkerson, James Kunen, Abe Peck, and More

By Jessica Shattuck | May 13, 2024

Continual Self-Revision: Bee Sacks on Coming Out As a Nonbinary Author

Continual Self-Revision: Bee Sacks on Coming Out As a Nonbinary Author

“I have become a text that revises themself, that will revise themself every day, every day until the last day.”

By Bee Sacks | May 13, 2024

Jennifer Leigh Selig on Deep Memoir

Jennifer Leigh Selig on Deep Memoir

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

By Memoir Nation | May 13, 2024

Sunjeev Sahota on Novels as Detective Stories

Sunjeev Sahota on Novels as Detective Stories

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | May 13, 2024

Alice McDermott’s Writing Mantra:<br> “Ah, Fuck Em.”

Alice McDermott’s Writing Mantra:
“Ah, Fuck Em.”

From Her One Story Literary Debutante Ball Address

By Alice McDermott | May 10, 2024

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The Breasts Make the Woman... Or Do They? On Having (and Losing) a Pair

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By Karen Tei Yamashita | May 10, 2024

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Invisible Women: On the Victorian Custom of Cutting Mothers Out of Portraits

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Ellen O’Connell Whittet Considers the Photographic Evidence of Maternal Erasure

By Ellen O'Connell Whittet | May 10, 2024

Sitting at the Cool Table: Christina Cooke and Marissa Higgins on the (Supposed) Renaissance of Queer Lit

Sitting at the Cool Table: Christina Cooke and Marissa Higgins on the (Supposed) Renaissance of Queer Lit

The Authors of “Broughtupsy” and “A Good Happy Girl” in Conversation

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Jerrod Carmichael on Using Art to (Try to) Solve Life's Problems

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Claire Messud on Blurring Family History and Fiction

Claire Messud on Blurring Family History and Fiction

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By Fiction Non Fiction | May 9, 2024

A Different Kind of Dad Book: Lucas Mann on Fatherhood, Writing, and the Essay as an Act of Care

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