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How an Exile's Return to Iran Inspired a Novel

How an Exile's Return to Iran Inspired a Novel

Donia Bijan Visits Her Childhood Home

By Donia Bijan | April 14, 2017

Hourglass

Hourglass

Dani Shapiro

By Lit Hub Excerpts | April 14, 2017

Mourning My Grandfather through <em>The Velveteen Rabbit</em>

Mourning My Grandfather through The Velveteen Rabbit

"Oftentimes it hurts. But once you’re Real, you’re Real forever."

By Sarah Gerard | April 11, 2017

Surviving the Death of My Son, One Page at a Time

Surviving the Death of My Son, One Page at a Time

believe that life was worth living"">"I hated everyone who’d ever tried to make me
believe that life was worth living"

By Mark Lane | April 6, 2017

How Stevie Nicks and Elizabeth Bishop Helped Me Through Grief and Loss

How Stevie Nicks and Elizabeth Bishop Helped Me Through Grief and Loss

Brandon Taylor on How to Survive a Disaster

By Brandon Taylor | April 5, 2017

My Improbable, Irrational Mario Vargas Llosa Story

My Improbable, Irrational Mario Vargas Llosa Story

Juan Gabriel Vásquez on a Globe- and Decade-Spanning Coincidence

By Juan Gabriel Vásquez | April 4, 2017

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Leaving the Village: Xiaolu Guo on a Traumatic Uprooting

By Xiaolu Guo | March 28, 2017

The Return by Hisham Matar

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How to Eat a Really Big Lunch with Jim Harrison

How to Eat a Really Big Lunch with Jim Harrison

Sharing Enchiladas with an Iconic Gourmand

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Unlearnable Lessons on My Father's Deathbed

Unlearnable Lessons on My Father's Deathbed

Marina Benjamin Considers the Reality of 'Second Childhood'

By Marina Benjamin | March 21, 2017

The Wild, Weird Criminal Side of Florida

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Dwyer Murphy Finds Blood, Guns, and Corpses at SleuthFest 2017

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Writing on an Island at the End of the World

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Nell Stevens Chases Her Novel to Bleaker Island

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When Your New York Apartment Has a Secret Literary Past

When Your New York Apartment Has a Secret Literary Past

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Above a Hidden Bookstore

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When My Father Wasn't Driving Trucks, He Was Reading

When My Father Wasn't Driving Trucks, He Was Reading

K. E. Semmel on Inheriting a Love of Books

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Joshua Mohr: The Time I Robbed a Liquor Store

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