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Is the Past a Literary Genre Unto Itself?

Is the Past a Literary Genre Unto Itself?

Sophie Mackintosh Speculates on the Nature of Historical Speculation

By Sophie MacKintosh | April 13, 2023

How Making Audio Erotica Helped Me Write Better Dialogue

How Making Audio Erotica Helped Me Write Better Dialogue

Selene Ross on Harnessing the Power of Sound to Write Fiction

By Selene Ross | April 13, 2023

I Would Drive 222 Miles (To Be a Writer)

I Would Drive 222 Miles (To Be a Writer)

Jeff Boyd on the Real Distance Between Chicago and Iowa

By Jeff Boyd | April 13, 2023

Alex Mar on the Story of Radical Forgiveness Behind Her New Book

Alex Mar on the Story of Radical Forgiveness Behind Her New Book

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | April 13, 2023

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“It was a source of some annoyance to Charles Portis that Shakespeare never wrote about Arkansas.”

By Book Marks | April 13, 2023

An American Experiment: Jeff Boyd on Race, Music, Religion, and Love in Contemporary Portland 

An American Experiment: Jeff Boyd on Race, Music, Religion, and Love in Contemporary Portland 

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | April 13, 2023

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  • The Ten Year Affair
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  • Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy
  • Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution

A Feminist Before Feminism: A Reading List in Honor of Isabella Stewart Gardner’s Boston

By Emily Franklin | April 13, 2023

Cocktails in Honor of Two Literary Greats: Virginia Woolf and Zora Neale Hurston

By Jennifer Croll | April 13, 2023

Jinwoo Chong on Taking Three Years to Outline His Novel (and Four Months to Draft It)

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | April 13, 2023

An Interrogation of Identity as a Hyphenated Man

An Interrogation of Identity as a Hyphenated Man

Omer Aziz on Finding Himself Trapped Between East and West in Jerusalem

By Omer Aziz | April 13, 2023

Beth Behrendt on How to Co-Parent in the Family Home After the Marriage Ends

Beth Behrendt on How to Co-Parent in the Family Home After the Marriage Ends

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | April 13, 2023

Christopher de Bellaigue Identifies the Lies and the Promise of an Environmentally Responsible Airline Industry

Christopher de Bellaigue Identifies the Lies and the Promise of an Environmentally Responsible Airline Industry

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | April 13, 2023

Maggie Smith on the Anxious, Silent First Year of Motherhood

Maggie Smith on the Anxious, Silent First Year of Motherhood

“What had I done, insisting on more of us?”

By Maggie Smith | April 12, 2023

The Patterns of Poetry: On the Mathematical and Poetic Value of Numbers

The Patterns of Poetry: On the Mathematical and Poetic Value of Numbers

Sarah Hart Explores the Intersection of Math and Literature

By Sarah Hart | April 12, 2023

Captain Dynamite and the Exploding Coffin of Death: The Greatest Minor League Baseball Entertainment... Ever?

Captain Dynamite and the Exploding Coffin of Death: The Greatest Minor League Baseball Entertainment... Ever?

“Oh man, I think that sumbitch is actually dead!”

By Ryan McGee | April 12, 2023

Taking Care: Gina Chung on Fostering a Long-Haul Creative Practice

Taking Care: Gina Chung on Fostering a Long-Haul Creative Practice

In Conversation with Guest Host Mira Jacob on Thresholds

By Thresholds | April 12, 2023

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