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In Praise of Poet Voice

In Praise of Poet Voice

Dan O'Brien Defends a Much-Maligned Performance Style

By Dan O'Brien | July 11, 2022

Calculating Losses: How to Close a High School Library for Summer Vacation 

Calculating Losses: How to Close a High School Library for Summer Vacation 

Jess deCourcy Hinds on Taking Stock of More Than Just Books

By Jess deCourcy Hinds | July 8, 2022

Repeat After Me: “I Am Not the Great American Novelist.”

Repeat After Me: “I Am Not the Great American Novelist.”

Michael Bourne on What It Really Means to Accept Failure

By Michael Bourne | July 8, 2022

Visions of Jane Eyre: On Mothers, Labor, and the Places Children Hide

Visions of Jane Eyre: On Mothers, Labor, and the Places Children Hide

these are my children or this is my country, but we’re only fooling ourselves."">Lesley Jenike: "We might say these are my children or this is my country, but we’re only fooling ourselves."

By Lesley Jenike | July 8, 2022

Ashley C. Ford: If “Kids Are the Future,” Why Don’t We Act Like it?

Ashley C. Ford: If “Kids Are the Future,” Why Don’t We Act Like it?

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on Thresholds

By Thresholds | July 6, 2022

You Can’t Choose Your Influences: On the Unexpected Book That Made Me a Writer

You Can’t Choose Your Influences: On the Unexpected Book That Made Me a Writer

Matt Rowland Hill on the Intersection of Spiritual and Literary Canons

By Matt Rowland Hill | July 6, 2022

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Chantal V. Johnson on Childhood Abuse and Disclosure

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | July 6, 2022

California State of Mind: Searching for Didion and Babitz in Literary Los Angeles

By Marianne Eloise | July 5, 2022

1980s Glam French Rebellion: A Literary Playlist

By Valérie Perrin | July 5, 2022

Emily Rapp Black on Frida Kahlo, Disability, and the Myth of the Suffering Artist

Emily Rapp Black on Frida Kahlo, Disability, and the Myth of the Suffering Artist

This Week From the Big Table Podcast with JC Gabel

By Big Table | July 5, 2022

From Memoir to Fiction: A World More Beautiful and Real than Reality

From Memoir to Fiction: A World More Beautiful and Real than Reality

Yara Zgheib on Blending the Real With the Imaginary

By Yara Zgheib | July 5, 2022

The Alchemy of Language: Ina Cariño on Naming, Claiming, and Protecting Ancestral Land

The Alchemy of Language: Ina Cariño on Naming, Claiming, and Protecting Ancestral Land

“I spell myself deliberately, with intention: an alchemization, plain metal to gold.”

By Ina Cariño | July 1, 2022

Jen Mediano on Letter-Writing, Losing Touch, and Second-Hand Mourning

Jen Mediano on Letter-Writing, Losing Touch, and Second-Hand Mourning

“Letters are a hinge into the invisible world; a place to share and to hone.”

By Jen Mediano | July 1, 2022

Required Reading: How My Daughter’s Homework Inspired My Novel

Required Reading: How My Daughter’s Homework Inspired My Novel

Chris Cander on the Perpetual Relevance of Susan Glaspell's 1917 Story “A Jury of Her Peers”

By Chris Cander | July 1, 2022

Heat, Rain, and Snow in Baltimore: On Reporting in the Pre-Digital Era

Heat, Rain, and Snow in Baltimore: On Reporting in the Pre-Digital Era

David Michael Ettlin Finds Community in the Newsroom

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WATCH: Keith Gessen on the Profound (and Often Maddening) Experience of Being a Dad

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In Conversation with Jessica Grose at Greenlight Bookstore

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