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Action: A Book About Sex

Amy Rose Spiegel

By Lit Hub Excerpts | May 19, 2016

On Discovering Real Mothers on the Page

On Discovering Real Mothers on the Page

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By Jordan Rosenfeld | May 6, 2016

Why Literature Needs Psychology

Why Literature Needs Psychology

Two Disciplines Wrestling With the Same Big Questions

By Jennifer R. Bernstein | May 2, 2016

Remembering Jenny Diski

Remembering Jenny Diski

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By Literary Hub | April 29, 2016

@diski, Inventive to the Last

@diski, Inventive to the Last

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Jenny Diski Didn't Need Your Admiration

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Rebecca Solnit: The Case of the Missing Perpetrator

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