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    The Writing Life

    I’ve Finished My Manuscript, Now What? On Dealing With Post-Book Blues

    By Lance Richardson  September 23, 2024
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    How Chinese and Italian Opera Helped Her Write and Grieve

    By Liu Hong  September 23, 2024
    First Draft

    Natalie Goldberg on the Real Equipment of a Writer

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   September 23, 2024
    Write-minded

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    By Write-minded   September 23, 2024
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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

    By Book Marks  September 20, 2024
    Women in History

    Courtesan, Diplomat, Kingmaker: The Many Faces of Pamela Harriman

    By Sonia Purnell  September 20, 2024
    Photography

    How Japanese Female Photographers Channeled Exclusion Into Experimentation

    By Pauline Vermare, Lesley A. Martin and Takeuchi Mariko  September 20, 2024
    Book Covers

    Experiments With ChatGPT: Why Artificial Intelligence Can’t Replace Human Creativity

    By Linda Huang  September 20, 2024
    Prison Banned Books Week

    Lifeline, Cash-Grab, Tool for Censorship: Three Incarcerated Readers on eBooks in Prison

    By Literary Hub  September 20, 2024
    The Craft of Writing

    Stephanie Duncan Smith on Excavating Your Work’s Aboutness

    By Stephanie Duncan Smith  September 20, 2024
    Family History

    Dreaming a Way Into the Past: On Unearthing Family Secrets in Taipei

    By Kim Liao  September 20, 2024
    Am I the Literary Asshole?

    I Do NOT Want to Hang Out With My Fans: Am I the Literary Asshole?

    By Kristen Arnett  September 19, 2024
    Editing

    “A Very Smart and Accessible Friend.” Why the Chicago Manual of Style Remains Essential

    By Literary Hub  September 19, 2024
    Right Wing Politics

    The Best Books for Understanding the Far Right “Constitutional Sheriff” Movement

    By Jessica Pishko  September 19, 2024
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  September 19, 2024
    Poems

    “Raft,” a Poem by Ted Kooser

    By Ted Kooser  September 19, 2024
    On Poetry

    Emilie Menzel on Depicting Animals in Poetry, Learning from Music, and Constructing a New Self

    By Diana Khoi Nguyen  September 19, 2024
    Literary Theory

    Against Romance and Passion as Social and Literary Constructs

    By Ron Rosenbaum  September 19, 2024
    Poetry

    “The Girl Who Became a Rabbit,” a Poem by Emilie Menzel

    By Emilie Menzel  September 19, 2024
    The History of Literature

    Allen MacDuffie on Darwin and Cataclysmic Change

    By History of Literature  September 19, 2024
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Ellen Emerson White on the First Woman President, Real and Imagined

    By Fiction Non Fiction  September 19, 2024
    New York City

    How Brooklyn’s Earliest Black Residents Found Empowerment and Solidarity in Their Diverse Community

    By Prithi Kanakamedala  September 18, 2024
    Speculative fiction

    The Woman Who Invented “Dark Fantasy.” How Gertrude Barrows Bennett Popularized the Fantastic

    By Lisa Yaszek  September 18, 2024
    Music history

    How Greenwich Village’s Iconic, Iconoclastic Music Scene Came to Be

    By David Browne  September 18, 2024
    The Natural World

    Close Encounters of Animal Kind: On the Porous Urban Boundaries Between Predator and Prey

    By Christopher Brown  September 18, 2024
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