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From Mukasonga to Alexievich, We Need Writers Who Bear Witness

From Mukasonga to Alexievich, We Need Writers Who Bear Witness

Scott Esposito on Staying Clear-Eyed in Dark Times

By Veronica Esposito | April 18, 2017

Something More than Correctness: On Teaching Grace Paley's Essays

Something More than Correctness: On Teaching Grace Paley's Essays

"It’s not their own shame that holds young writers back; it’s ours"

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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

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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

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Routine and Domesticity in Terence Davies’s A Quiet Passion and
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Thomas McGuane Remembers His Friend, Jim Harrison

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How Many Shakespeares Were There?

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

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

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

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