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Satyrs and Poets and Jazzmen and Muses: Anne Waldman on Life at Bennington in the Early 1960s

Satyrs and Poets and Jazzmen and Muses: Anne Waldman on Life at Bennington in the Early 1960s

“I was competitive with men. I wanted their freedom.”

By Anne Waldman | January 18, 2023

Paul Auster: Why Is America the Most Violent Country in the Western World?

Paul Auster: Why Is America the Most Violent Country in the Western World?

On the Normalization of Gun Culture in the United States

By Paul Auster | January 18, 2023

Dissolution Foretold: Neurosurgeon Henry Marsh on the Reality of His Own Diagnosis

Dissolution Foretold: Neurosurgeon Henry Marsh on the Reality of His Own Diagnosis

“The problem is that our true self, our brain, has changed.”

By Henry Marsh | January 17, 2023

How Leaning into Marginalia Helped Me Accept the Loss of Control That Comes with Publication

How Leaning into Marginalia Helped Me Accept the Loss of Control That Comes with Publication

Josh Riedel on Doodles, Dogears, and Acceptance

By Josh Riedel | January 17, 2023

What Would It Mean to Really Make Space for Mother-Artists?

What Would It Mean to Really Make Space for Mother-Artists?

Janet Manley on Hettie Judah and the Perennial Problem of the “Mother-Shaped Hole”

By Janet Manley | January 13, 2023

Despite leaks, Prince Harry’s memoir is the UK’s fastest selling nonfiction title ever.

Despite leaks, Prince Harry’s memoir is the UK’s fastest selling nonfiction title ever.

By Jonny Diamond | January 12, 2023

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By Just the Right Book | January 12, 2023

Russell Banks on the Time He Fled Bread Loaf with Nelson Algren

Russell Banks on the Time He Fled Bread Loaf with Nelson Algren

Algren Got Fired, Banks Made a Friend

By Adam Colman | January 11, 2023

Surrounded by Wonders: Pico Iyer in Kashmir

Surrounded by Wonders: Pico Iyer in Kashmir

"Kashmir became a shorthand for the contention that festers between neighbors whom Empire has cynically divided."

By Pico Iyer | January 11, 2023

Keri Blakinger on What It’s Like to Interview Someone on Death Row

Keri Blakinger on What It’s Like to Interview Someone on Death Row

This Week on Twitterverse, a Show About Tweets and the Writers Who Send Them

By Twitterverse | January 10, 2023

Unguilty Pleasures: My Year of Reading Romance Novels

Unguilty Pleasures: My Year of Reading Romance Novels

Katie Fustich on Finding New Possibilities in a Misunderstood Genre

By Katie Fustich | January 9, 2023

Who Is the “Noted Writer” Buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery?

Who Is the “Noted Writer” Buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery?

Nicky Beer Searches For a Long-Lost Writer in the Family

By Nicky Beer | January 9, 2023

The Sanctity of a Journal: On Private Writing in the Age of Public Content

The Sanctity of a Journal: On Private Writing in the Age of Public Content

“What stories do we owe each other—ourselves?”

By Rachel Schwartzmann | January 6, 2023

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