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How Someone Else's Writer's Block Helped Me Write My Novel

How Someone Else's Writer's Block Helped Me Write My Novel

Robert Siegel on Getting the Details Just Right

By Robert Anthony Siegel | July 17, 2018

If Watergate Happened Now, It Would Stay a Secret

If Watergate Happened Now, It Would Stay a Secret

Sy Hersh Reveals a 1970s Washington That Seemed to Contain... Decency?

By Seymour M. Hersh | July 13, 2018

David Lynch on the Dark Side of Fifties Suburbia

David Lynch on the Dark Side of Fifties Suburbia

Bombs, Bullets, and Amputated Feet, Obviously

By David Lynch | July 10, 2018

Samantha Hunt: Ghosts of Brooklyn Past

Samantha Hunt: Ghosts of Brooklyn Past

"Why is it so hard to know a person we see everyday?"

By Samantha Hunt | July 10, 2018

On Falling in Love with the Language I've Spoken My Entire Life

On Falling in Love with the Language I've Spoken My Entire Life

Lucy Tan Rediscovers Chinese Through the Fiction of Eileen Chang

By Lucy Tan | July 9, 2018

Peter Mayle Knew How to Handle the Trolls (Back When They Wrote Letters)

Peter Mayle Knew How to Handle the Trolls (Back When They Wrote Letters)

The Late Lover of Provence Recalls a Life of Interviews (and Interruptions)

By Peter Mayle | July 6, 2018

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