How Martin Scorsese Straddled Hollywood and Auteur Filmmaking

How Martin Scorsese Straddled Hollywood and Auteur Filmmaking

From Mean Streets to Hugo (?) and Back Again

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Vera Wasowski, Larger Than Life in Postwar Warsaw

Vera Wasowski, Larger Than Life in Postwar Warsaw

On Being Jewish in Poland After WWII

By Maria Tumarkin | August 26, 2019

Pamela Paul on Her Long Path to Becoming a Writer and Editor

Pamela Paul on Her Long Path to Becoming a Writer and Editor

Will Schwalbe Talks to the New York Times Editor
on But That's Another Story

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Anthony Doerr on the Beautiful Art of Failure

Anthony Doerr on the Beautiful Art of Failure

Introducing Beyond the Page: The Best of the Sun Valley
Writers' Conference

By Sun Valley Writers' Conference | August 25, 2019

Standing Room Only: On Overtravel and the Joy of the Unsung

Standing Room Only: On Overtravel and the Joy of the Unsung

Where Do We Go Now?

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Jenny Zhang on Reading <em>Little Women</em> and Wanting to Be Like Jo March

Jenny Zhang on Reading Little Women and Wanting to Be Like Jo March

Looking to Louisa May Alcott's Heroine for Inspiration

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Suketu Mehta on Fighting <br>Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric and Racist Populism in Trump’s America

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The Author of This Land is Our Land in Conversation with Dylan Foley

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Karl Marlantes on How Mythology Infuses His Writing

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The Deep River Author on The Literary Life
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Why Do I Recite the Same Paul Celan Poem to All My Dates?

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Or: Don't Hate the Player, Hate the Game

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Dorothy Parker on the Art of Her Old Pal James Thurber

Dorothy Parker on the Art of Her Old Pal James Thurber

"A Thurber must be seen to be believed—there is no use trying to tell the plot of it."

By Dorothy Parker | August 22, 2019

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