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    Just the Right Book

    Do Brains Have a Gender? Gina Rippon Debunks the Myth

    By Just the Right Book   October 17, 2019
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    Connie Brothers: The Heart of the Heart of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop

    By Isabel Henderson  October 17, 2019
    5 Questions

    Deborah Levy Beats Writers’ Block by… Swimming

    By Literary Hub  October 16, 2019
    Work

    How Working the Swing Shift Saved My Writing

    By Anna Maxymiw  October 16, 2019
    Correspondence

    A Friendship in Letters:
    Flannery O’Connor and Katherine Anne Porter

    By Benjamin B. Alexander  October 16, 2019
    Writing Advice

    Demystifying the Writer’s Fear of Failure

    By Sarah LaBrie  October 16, 2019
    Fashion

    Leah Vernon: A Day in the Life of a Fat Model

    By Leah Vernon  October 16, 2019
    Criticism

    Harold Bloom on Cormac McCarthy, True Heir to Melville and Faulkner

    By Harold Bloom  October 16, 2019
    Graphic Memoir

    Is There a Program for Addiction to
    12-Step Programs?

    By David Heatley  October 16, 2019
    Musicians

    On the Groundbreaking Documentary That Brought the Birthplace of Chicago Blues Alive

    By David Dann  October 16, 2019
    Reading Women

    Reading Women on Mira Jacob’s The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing and Our Women on the Ground

    By Reading Women  October 16, 2019
    Otherppl

    Zulema Renee Summerfield on Changing History in Fiction

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  October 16, 2019
    Poem

    “Midnight Train to Georgia”
    A Poem by Nathalie Handal

    By Nathalie Handal  October 16, 2019
    Poets

    Ben Lerner Talks to Ocean Vuong About Love, Whiteness, and Toxic Masculinity

    By Ocean Vuong  October 15, 2019
    5 Books

    Elizabeth Strout on Writers’ Block, the Art of Edward Hopper, and More

    By Literary Hub  October 15, 2019
    Food

    How Do We Preserve the Vanishing Foods of the Earth?

    By Lenore Newman  October 15, 2019
    Biology

    No One Really Knows Why Humans Can Walk

    By Bill Bryson  October 15, 2019
    Norwegian Literature

    Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Norwegian Literature (Almost)

    By John Freeman  October 15, 2019
    Biography

    The Impossibility of Capturing Truth in a Biography

    By Iris Origo  October 15, 2019
    News and Culture

    A Household of Minor Things:
    The Collections of Robert Duncan and Jess

    By Tara McDowell  October 15, 2019
    Work

    Johan Harstad’s Summer of Porn and Philosophy

    By Johan Harstad  October 15, 2019
    First Draft

    Alix Ohlin on the Question That Inspired Her New Novel

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   October 15, 2019
    Poem

    “How It Felt”
    A Poem by Sharon Olds

    By Sharon Olds  October 15, 2019
    Behind the Mic

    Behind the Mic: On Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson, Read by the Author and Others

    By Behind the Mic   October 14, 2019
    News and Culture

    Who Has the Right to Write About Hurricane Katrina?

    By Maggie Neil  October 11, 2019
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