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    By Dale Peck  May 23, 2016
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    By Daniela Blei  May 23, 2016
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    Emerging from the Ruins of An American Dynasty

    By Frances Stroh  May 20, 2016
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    History Never Ends, It Just Gets Retold

    By Janice P. Nimura  May 17, 2016
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    The Dimunition of Women Writers: An American Tradition

    By Anne Boyd Rioux  May 12, 2016
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    By Lit Hub Excerpts  May 10, 2016
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    The Time Shakespeare Caused a Riot in New York City

    By Andrew Dickson  May 10, 2016
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    By Devin Leonard  May 2, 2016
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    By Literary Hub  April 25, 2016
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    By Literary Hub  April 25, 2016
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    Remembering the Poets Who Fought For Irish Independence

    By Jared Spears  April 22, 2016
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    On the Literature of Cyborgs, Robots, and Other Automata

    By Michael Peck  April 21, 2016
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    How I Write History: Or, A Window Into My Crazy

    By Neal Bascomb  April 19, 2016
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    In Search of the Darkest Cult in American History

    By Laura Elizabeth Woollett  April 15, 2016
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    By Adam Gopnik  April 14, 2016
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    Why Wasn’t Great American Novelist Jane Smiley on the Cover of a Magazine?

    By Rumaan Alam  April 11, 2016
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    By Rachel McCarthy James  March 31, 2016
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    Who Can Fictionalize Slavery?

    By Katy Simpson Smith  March 30, 2016
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    How to Be a Whaler’s Wife in 1908: Boil Everything, Wash the Clothes in Gin

    By Shirley Barrett  March 23, 2016
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    Donald Trump’s Sentimental Journey to the Top

    By Kristen Martin  March 22, 2016
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    A Brief History of New York Values

    By David Reid  March 22, 2016
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