Why Are We So Resistant to the Idea of a Modern Myth?

Why Are We So Resistant to the Idea of a Modern Myth?

Philip Ball: “Myths are promiscuous; they were postmodern before the concept existed.”

By Philip Ball | June 2, 2021

On Tim O’Brien’s Relationship to Writing and Fatherhood

On Tim O’Brien’s Relationship to Writing and Fatherhood

Teresa Fazio Watches the Documentary The War and Peace of Tim O’Brien

By Teresa Fazio | June 2, 2021

Encoding, Storing, Retrieving: How Memory Works

Encoding, Storing, Retrieving: How Memory Works

Lauren Aguirre on Recovering Past Experiences and Forming Fake Ones

By Lauren Aguirre | June 2, 2021

How <em>Mean Girls</em> Taught Me to Fear Lesbians and Love Pink

How Mean Girls Taught Me to Fear Lesbians and Love Pink

Grace Perry on Her High School Years, Catholicism, and the 2004 Teen Classic

By Grace Perry | June 2, 2021

“Filthy, Funny, and Flamboyant.” How the New York of the ‘80s Spawned the Lunachicks

“Filthy, Funny, and Flamboyant.” How the New York of the ‘80s Spawned the Lunachicks

“We were born weirdos, and New York offered no resistance to that.”

By The Lunachicks with Jeanne Fury | June 2, 2021

WATCH: Caleb Azumah Nelson Talks to Candice Brathwaite at the Hay Festival

WATCH: Caleb Azumah Nelson Talks to Candice Brathwaite at the Hay Festival

The Debut Novelist Discusses His New Book, Open Water

By The Virtual Book Channel | June 2, 2021

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J. B. MacKinnon: It’s Time to Stop Shopping

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How I Kicked Insomnia and Addiction with Help from Marilyn Monroe

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At the Intersection of Journalism and Memoir: A Reading List

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Daisy Hernández on the Six Books That Helped Her Find the Way She Needed to Write

By Daisy Hernández | June 2, 2021

Melissa Febos on the Long-Term Effects of Having a Stalker

Melissa Febos on the Long-Term Effects of Having a Stalker

In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | June 2, 2021

Celebrating AudioFile’s 2021 Golden Voice Narrators: Cassandra Campbell

Celebrating AudioFile’s 2021 Golden Voice Narrators: Cassandra Campbell

Honoring Excellence in Audiobook Narration

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WATCH: Peter Scott-Morgan in Conversation with Stephen Fry at the Hay Festival

WATCH: Peter Scott-Morgan in Conversation with Stephen Fry at the Hay Festival

Lessons in Living from the First Human Cyborg

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The Golden Girls of Literature: <em>Reading Women</em> Recommends Books by and About Older Women

The Golden Girls of Literature: Reading Women Recommends Books by and About Older Women

Celebrating Five Years of the Reading Women Podcast!

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Kelly Jordan on the Magic That Can Happen Between Author and Illustrator

Kelly Jordan on the Magic That Can Happen Between Author and Illustrator

This Week on the NewberyTart Podcast

By NewberyTart | June 2, 2021

Richard Flanagan: What the Writer Needs is a Mad Courage

Richard Flanagan: What the Writer Needs is a Mad Courage

The Booker Prize Winner Talks About Writing
The Living Sea of Waking Dreams

By Cherilyn Parsons | June 1, 2021

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