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Acting Out a Life: How to Write Novels About Real People

Acting Out a Life: How to Write Novels About Real People

Gill Paul on the Craft of Historical Fiction and the Limits of Biography

By Gill Paul | September 7, 2023

Myriam Gurba on Writing the Visceral

Myriam Gurba on Writing the Visceral

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A Fearless, Free, Literary Space: On Writers' Diaries

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Beyond the True-False Binary: How the Internet Helped Transform the Lyric Essay

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A Reading List of Realistic Portraits of Mothers and Daughters in Literature

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What Does It Mean to Write after Having Children?

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Hilary Leichter on Time and Re-Reading

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Why the Rise of Morally Gray Women In Fiction Is Good For All of Us

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