Who Gets To Be <em>Bossypants</em>? On Class and Privilege in Female Comedians’ Memoirs

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On Reimagining the Limitless Potential of the Literary Western

On Reimagining the Limitless Potential of the Literary Western

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On the Art of the Query: How the Best Kinds of Questions Move Beyond Objectivity

On the Art of the Query: How the Best Kinds of Questions Move Beyond Objectivity

Amy Wright Wonders “What We Can Bear to Learn?”

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Bonnie Friedman on the Pleasure of Diving into Details

Bonnie Friedman on the Pleasure of Diving into Details

"To write well we must sink into the silt of this world."

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Too Close To Home: Writing a Book That Your Parents Won’t Read

Too Close To Home: Writing a Book That Your Parents Won’t Read

Michelle Jana Chan on the Power of Family to Shape Your Own Narrative

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How an Irish Syntactical Peculiarity Helped Me Find My Protagonist’s Voice

How an Irish Syntactical Peculiarity Helped Me Find My Protagonist’s Voice

Kia Corthron on the Challenges of Dialect in Historical Fiction

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Matt Bell in Praise of Genre Agnosticism

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Patricia Engel on the Natural Human Instinct to Migrate

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<em>Katharine Parr, The Sixth Wife</em> by Alison Weir, Read by Rosalyn Landor

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Continue the Saga of the Six Tudor Queens

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Illustrating the Risks of Winston Smith’s Love Affair

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Finding Literary Spaces Amid the Intensity of New Motherhood

Finding Literary Spaces Amid the Intensity of New Motherhood

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