“Happy Accidents.” Shelley Noble on Stumbling Into a Story

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“Different than inspiration; quirky, shocking, sometimes clunky, they intercede rather than inspire.”

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Brendan Ballou on Private Equity’s Plan to Pillage and Plunder the United States

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Paul Kix on the Ten Weeks in 1963 That Changed America

Paul Kix on the Ten Weeks in 1963 That Changed America

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Priscilla Gilman on Living the Charmed Life of a Critic’s Daughter

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Aaron Hamburger on Trying to Solve a Family Mystery Through Fiction

Aaron Hamburger on Trying to Solve a Family Mystery Through Fiction

“Writing my novel was a way to connect to this younger version of my grandmother.”

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On Shuttered Libraries, Censorship, the Threat of Book Bans

On Shuttered Libraries, Censorship, the Threat of Book Bans

Mark Dunn Mulls Considers What His 2001 Novel Ella Minnow Pea Can Teach Us About Today

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