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Helping My First Generation Students Take Pride in their Personal Essays

Helping My First Generation Students Take Pride in their Personal Essays

"I feel lucky to be able to witness the telling of these lives"

By Sonia Taitz | April 13, 2017

David Vann:

David Vann: "If I Miss a Single Morning of Writing, It Changes My Novel"

On Creative Routine and Writing Eight Books in Eight Years

By David Vann | April 13, 2017

The Lives of the Poets Aren't All That Cinematic

The Lives of the Poets Aren't All That Cinematic

Routine and Domesticity in Terence Davies’s A Quiet Passion and
Jim Jarmusch’s Paterson

By Lucy Scholes | April 13, 2017

Lidia Yuknavitch: I Will Always Inhabit the Water

Lidia Yuknavitch: I Will Always Inhabit the Water

On Living a Swimmer's Life

By Lidia Yuknavitch | April 12, 2017

Louise Erdrich: Among the Living and the Dead in the Turtle Mountains

Louise Erdrich: Among the Living and the Dead in the Turtle Mountains

Finding Spirits in the Night and Palimpsests of Probability

By Louise Erdrich | April 12, 2017

Thomas McGuane Remembers His Friend, Jim Harrison

Thomas McGuane Remembers His Friend, Jim Harrison

"In the end, Jim Harrison was a country boy who’d been touched."

By Thomas McGuane | April 12, 2017

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Kurt Vonnegut's Greatest Writing Advice

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10 Essential Terms for Poets (and Everyone Else)

By Edward Hirsch | April 7, 2017

Reading Across America: A Scene Grows in Queens

By Catherine LaSota | April 7, 2017

The Longest Winter: Or Why It Took Me 15 Years to Finish My Novel

The Longest Winter: Or Why It Took Me 15 Years to Finish My Novel

Max Winter Goes Year-By-Year on a Very Long Journey

By Max Winter | April 5, 2017

How Many Shakespeares Were There?

How Many Shakespeares Were There?

On Authorship, Erasure, and the Myth of the Great Solitary Writer

By Gabrielle Bellot | April 5, 2017

Alexander McCall Smith: In Praise of W.H. Auden

Alexander McCall Smith: In Praise of W.H. Auden

And from Moby Dick to Patrick O'Brian...

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Don't Be a Dick: Colum McCann's Advice to Young Writers

Don't Be a Dick: Colum McCann's Advice to Young Writers

On the Importance of Kindness and Reading Widely

By Colum McCann | April 3, 2017

On the Philosophical Implications of Shelving Books

On the Philosophical Implications of Shelving Books

Or, the Time I Reorganized the Cook Books at BookCourt

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What Does it Mean to Set Your Novel at Harvard?

What Does it Mean to Set Your Novel at Harvard?

On The Idiot and the Evolution of the Campus Novel

By Amelia Ayrelan Iuvino | March 31, 2017

We Are All Detectives Now: When Literary Plots Get Mysterious

We Are All Detectives Now: When Literary Plots Get Mysterious

On Recent Novels by Katie Kitamura, Patty Yumi Cottrell, and More

By Tobias Carroll | March 30, 2017

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