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For So Many Cultures, the Key to Understanding Death is a Festival of Light

For So Many Cultures, the Key to Understanding Death is a Festival of Light

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By Sasha Sagan | October 24, 2019

The City Where Janis Joplin Found Her Voice

The City Where Janis Joplin Found Her Voice

On Her Earliest Days in San Francisco

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Jami Attenberg on Writing Characters You Don't Like

Jami Attenberg on Writing Characters You Don't Like

The Author of All This Could Be Yours on The Maris Review

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Libraries Are Even More Important to Contemporary Community Than We Thought

Libraries Are Even More Important to Contemporary Community Than We Thought

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By Eric Klinenberg | October 24, 2019

How Pretending to Be Paul McCartney Helped Me Write My Book

How Pretending to Be Paul McCartney Helped Me Write My Book

"Sometimes Paul McCartney isn’t Paul McCartney at all."

By Karl Whitney | October 24, 2019

How Napoleon's Italian Exile Set the Stage for His Return to Power

How Napoleon's Italian Exile Set the Stage for His Return to Power

On Elba, the Ousted General Was Compared to Robinson Crusoe

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The Yale Younger Poets Prize: A Microcosm of the American Poetry Landscape

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Teaching High School Students the Wildness of Poetry

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The Art of Surviving a Move to New York

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By Dina Nayeri | October 23, 2019

Visiting Vojna: on the Horrors of the Communist Regime in Czechoslovakia

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The Post-Eastern Bloc Generation Confronts the Past

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Exploring the Forgotten Writerly Playground of the European Aristocracy

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Miriam Toews on How Fiction Helps to Expose the Truth

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Poet Diana Khoi Nguyen on Family and Writing a Radical Eulogy for Her Brother

The Author of Ghost Of in Conversation with Peter Mishler

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The House of SpeakEasy Podcast: The Razor's Edge

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Madeleine Thien, Elizabeth Alexander, and James Rebanks
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Jarett Kobek: 'Stop Worrying About the Content.'

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