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How to Write a Good Sex Scene

How to Write a Good Sex Scene

25 Writers on the Hardest (Sorry) Literary Technique

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Mohammed El-Kurd on the Complexities of Victimhood, Resilience, and Portraying Palestinian Genocide

Mohammed El-Kurd on the Complexities of Victimhood, Resilience, and Portraying Palestinian Genocide

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Lidia Yuknavitch on Finding the Words to Convey Unfathomable Loss

“I do what I do know how to do. I throw them into stories; I watch them move and I can walk again.”

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Pádraig Ó Tuama on Patricia Smith, Poems as Acts of Noticing, and the Power of Good Teachers

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