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    A Phone Call From Paul

    Stephen Karam on Pain, Despair, and the Enduring Power of Great Writing

    By Literary Hub  March 3, 2017
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    Maira Kalman on God, the Weather, and Realizing When Enough is Enough

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    Edmund de Waal on Anxiety, Silence, and the Edge of Terror and Beauty

    By Literary Hub  February 9, 2017
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    Paul Auster on Activism, James Baldwin and the Horrors of Trump

    By Literary Hub  January 25, 2017
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    Bryan Stevenson: A Civil Rights Hero for the Age of Trump

    By Literary Hub  January 20, 2017
    A Phone Call From Paul

    W.S. Merwin: On Reading What You Want, Reading It Slowly, and the Beauty of Trees

    By Literary Hub  January 12, 2017
    A Phone Call From Paul

    A 90-Year-Old John Berger is Not Surprised By President Trump

    By Literary Hub  January 2, 2017
    Joy of Art

    Isaac Mizrahi on a Love of Old Things, and Surviving the Nightmare of the Present

    By Literary Hub  November 4, 2016
    Getting Deep

    Junot Diaz on the Joys of the Young and the Stories of the Dead

    By Literary Hub  October 27, 2016
    Changing the World

    Margaret Atwood on Magic, Technology, and Changing the World

    By Literary Hub  October 20, 2016
    Being Kind

    In Which Jan Morris Talks Kindness, Exclamation Points, and Plays Old Records

    By Literary Hub  October 6, 2016
    Wait—What Happened?

    Etgar Keret on Reading to His Kids (and Getting Slapped at a Reading)

    By Literary Hub  September 21, 2016
    Writing Differently

    Etgar Keret On Time Travel, TV, and Writing About His Father

    By Literary Hub  September 15, 2016
    On Racism

    Tracy K. Smith on Race, Love, Hate, and Lucille Clifton

    By Literary Hub  September 7, 2016
    On Faith

    Tracy K. Smith on God, Poetry, and Parenting in New York City

    By Literary Hub  August 24, 2016
    What to Read

    Werner Herzog on the Books Every Filmmaker Should Read

    By Literary Hub  August 10, 2016
    Conversations with Legends

    Werner Herzog on Volcanoes, North Korea, and the Internet

    By Literary Hub  August 3, 2016
    Music as a Language

    Nico Muhly on Music as Language and Writers in Paris

    By Literary Hub  July 20, 2016
    Music as a Language

    Nico Muhly on the Oddness of Deadlines, and the Power of Opera

    By Literary Hub  July 13, 2016
    Poets and Sports

    Laurie Anderson on the Time She Invented a Sport with Anne Carson

    By Literary Hub  June 22, 2016
    Conversations with Legends

    Laurie Anderson on Childhood, Storytelling, and Hiding in Plain Sight

    By Literary Hub  June 15, 2016
    Getting Deep

    Alain de Botton on Voltaire, Twitter, and Commercial Culture

    By Literary Hub  June 8, 2016
    Spooky...?

    Neil Gaiman on His Favorite Horror Movie

    By Neil Gaiman  June 7, 2016
    On Love

    Alain de Botton on the False Promises of Romantic Love

    By Literary Hub  June 1, 2016
    Reading *And* Writing

    Salman Rushdie on Poetry, Being a Reader, and Going to the Movies

    By Literary Hub  May 18, 2016
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