What Culture Shock Taught Me About Sci-Fi and Fantasy Storytelling

What Culture Shock Taught Me About Sci-Fi and Fantasy Storytelling

Alex Jennings on the Experience of Otherness, and Learning to Ask Questions

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Books at the Bar: A Reading List of Fictional Bars, Bartenders, and Bar Flies

Books at the Bar: A Reading List of Fictional Bars, Bartenders, and Bar Flies

Natalka Burian on Chantal V. Johnson, Dominique Fabre, Nghi Vo, and More

By Natalka Burian | July 13, 2022

Was Helen Gurley Brown the Jane Austen of Her Era?

Was Helen Gurley Brown the Jane Austen of Her Era?

Samantha Allen and Briallen Hopper Guest on the Lit Century Podcast

By Lit Century | July 12, 2022

Writers Love the World’s Oldest (and Most Obvious) Metaphor

Writers Love the World’s Oldest (and Most Obvious) Metaphor

Zain Khalid on Books That Are Obsessed With Death

By Zain Khalid | July 12, 2022

The Ocean is a Lesbian: Notes on Queer Women and Water

The Ocean is a Lesbian: Notes on Queer Women and Water

"What is it with these lesbians and why are they all so wet?"

By Julia Armfield | July 12, 2022

On the Life of Czech Sci-Fi Author Karel Čapek, the Man Who Coined the Term “Robot”

On the Life of Czech Sci-Fi Author Karel Čapek, the Man Who Coined the Term “Robot”

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

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On the Personalization of Craft; Or, We’re All Going to Die Soon Anyway

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Diksha Basu Wonders What We Really Mean by “Writing Rules”

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Shelf Talkers: Booksellers From Porter Square Books Share Their Favorites

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“The System is Designed to Prohibit Change.” On Hollywood and Women’s Ambition and Complicity

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Isabel Kaplan and Alison B. Hart, Authors of NSFW and The Work Wife, in Conversation

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Who is Fire Island for? On the Currency of Reading (and Six Packs) in Pines Society

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How Joel Kim Booster’s Rom-Com Engages with Literary History

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The Art of the Hand-Sell: Booksellers Recommend... Beach Reads?

The Art of the Hand-Sell: Booksellers Recommend... Beach Reads?

13 Indie Booksellers on What You Should Read This Summer

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Repeat After Me: “I Am Not the Great American Novelist.”

Repeat After Me: “I Am Not the Great American Novelist.”

Michael Bourne on What It Really Means to Accept Failure

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What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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