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    Jonathan Escoffery on How Nella Larsen’s Helga Crane Influenced His Debut Collection

    By The Literary Life  September 23, 2022
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    Christopher M. Finan: How to Battle Book Banning in Your Community

    By The Literary Life  September 16, 2022
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    Javier Zamora: You Can’t Simply Make Art From Your Trauma to Heal Yourself

    By The Literary Life  September 9, 2022
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    Dwyer Murphy on the Romantic Optimism in L.A. and South Florida Crime Novels

    By The Literary Life  August 12, 2022
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    Monique Roffey: How to Write About Colonialism Without Talking About Colonialism

    By The Literary Life  August 5, 2022
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    Blitz Bazawule on Why Crop Rotation is the Perfect Metaphor For the Creative Mind

    By The Literary Life  July 22, 2022
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    How Frank O’Hara Brought a Father and Daughter Closer Together

    By The Literary Life  July 15, 2022
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    Geraldine Brooks on the Beauty of Implausible Truth

    By The Literary Life  July 8, 2022
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    Ottessa Moshfegh: “Why Do I Write About Such Darkness?”

    By The Literary Life  July 1, 2022
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    Mark Kurlansky: Why Short Stories are Pure Storytelling

    By The Literary Life  June 24, 2022
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    Why Are Novels About Wealth Almost Absent From the Literary Canon?

    By The Literary Life  June 17, 2022
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    Alexander Maksik No Longer Condemns Metafictional Novels

    By The Literary Life  June 6, 2022
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    Steve Almond on the Myth of Reaganism

    By The Literary Life  May 27, 2022
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    Don Winslow Is Hopeful For the Future

    By The Literary Life  May 20, 2022
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    Peter Balakian on How the Transmission of Trauma Across Generations Informs His Poetry

    By The Literary Life  May 13, 2022
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    Douglas Stuart on the Strangeness of Sharing Your Own Grief and Loss in Fiction

    By The Literary Life  May 6, 2022
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    What Kind of Bookstore Browser Are You?

    By The Literary Life  April 29, 2022
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    What’s Happening With the Literary Community in Ukraine?

    By The Literary Life  April 15, 2022
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    Diana Abu-Jaber on How Life Begins Each Time You Find a New Place

    By The Literary Life  March 18, 2022
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    Dr. Olha Poliukhovych and Askold Melnyczuk on the War in Ukraine

    By The Literary Life  March 4, 2022
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    What Are You Blurbing, Deesha Philyaw?

    By The Literary Life  February 18, 2022
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    Julie Otsuka on Writing Her Most Personal Story

    By The Literary Life  February 11, 2022
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    Elisa New and Richard Blanco on the Diversity of American Poetry

    By The Literary Life  February 4, 2022
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    Anjanette Delgado, Yaddyra Peralta, and Mia Leonin on the Literature of Uprootedness

    By The Literary Life  January 28, 2022
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    Kerri Maher on How a Paris Bookseller Changed the Course of Literature

    By The Literary Life  January 21, 2022
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