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Revisiting the Radical Presence of Diane di Prima

Revisiting the Radical Presence of Diane di Prima

Liesl Schwabe on the Work and Legacy of the San Francisco Beat Poet

By Liesl Schwabe | March 4, 2024

Literature’s Lonely Hunter: On the “Sad, Happy Life” of Carson McCullers

Literature’s Lonely Hunter: On the “Sad, Happy Life” of Carson McCullers

Mary V. Dearborn Remembers an American Literary Champion of the Outsider

By Mary V. Dearborn | February 28, 2024

“What If We Weren’t Afraid to Tell the Hard Truths?” Chris Chalk on Playing James Baldwin

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“Being Baldwin requires you to be free. It’s mandatory.”

By Dan Sheehan | February 21, 2024

Writing Into Negative Space: Shining A Spotlight on History’s Sidelined Women

Writing Into Negative Space: Shining A Spotlight on History’s Sidelined Women

Kirsten Bakis Explores the Lives of Writer and Paranormalist Cult Figure Charles Fort and His Wife, Anna

By Kirsten Bakis | February 21, 2024

How <em>The Prophet</em> Made Kahlil Gibran a Household Name in America

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The Late Joan Acocella on the Complex and Contradictory Life of a New Age Icon

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Camp Over Tragedy: On Henry Van Dyke’s Farcical, Irreverent Novel of Black Gay Life in Mid-Century America

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