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A Love Letter to (Perpetually Underfunded, Gloriously Democratic) Public Libraries

A Love Letter to (Perpetually Underfunded, Gloriously Democratic) Public Libraries

Michele Herman: “Libraries so clearly help to make good citizens, are so clearly a municipal force for the common good.”

By Michele Herman | July 21, 2022

Isaac Fitzgerald on How We Tell Ourselves Stories To Get By

Isaac Fitzgerald on How We Tell Ourselves Stories To Get By

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | July 21, 2022

How Final Fantasy VII Taught Me to Write

How Final Fantasy VII Taught Me to Write

Jamil Jan Kochai on Character Building, Storytelling, and Cloud Strife

By Jamil Jan Kochai | July 20, 2022

Writing a Book About My Whiteness Forced Me to Confront My Own Lies

Writing a Book About My Whiteness Forced Me to Confront My Own Lies

Baynard Woods on the Infinite Gap Between Self-Conception and Material Reality

By Baynard Woods | July 20, 2022

Fandom as Methodology: On Fan-Nonfiction and Finding the Joy of Mutual Delusion

Fandom as Methodology: On Fan-Nonfiction and Finding the Joy of Mutual Delusion

Elvia Wilk Considers Fangirls, Possibility, and the Views from Many Somewheres

By Elvia Wilk | July 19, 2022

Liska Jacobs on Leaving Los Angeles, City of “Impermanence and Unreliability”

Liska Jacobs on Leaving Los Angeles, City of “Impermanence and Unreliability”

Finding Kinship with Eve Babitz and Joan Didion

By Liska Jacobs | July 19, 2022

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My Journey to Writing Children’s Books Began with a Colicky Baby

By Christina Geist | July 19, 2022

How Rummaging Through Oliver Stone’s Home Office Allowed a Young Rafael Agustín to Imagine Being a Writer

By Rafael Agustin | July 15, 2022

How Frank O’Hara Brought a Father and Daughter Closer Together

By The Literary Life | July 15, 2022

Small Rebellions: Erika L. Sánchez on Writing the Characters She Wanted to Read

Small Rebellions: Erika L. Sánchez on Writing the Characters She Wanted to Read

”I rarely found portrayals of anyone like me—bookish and poor and surly and Brown—in the art that I enjoyed.”

By Erika L. Sánchez | July 14, 2022

Dispatches From the Imaginative Childhood of a Future Pilot

Dispatches From the Imaginative Childhood of a Future Pilot

Or, How an Atlas is the Most Transportive Book of All

By Mark Vanhoenacker | July 14, 2022

On Finding Solace Among Nature’s Gentlest of Giants, the Gray Whale

On Finding Solace Among Nature’s Gentlest of Giants, the Gray Whale

"Even in the constant darkness of the polar winter, each aġviq finds plenty to sing about."

By Doreen Cunningham | July 14, 2022

Eating is Storytelling: Ruby Tandoh on Turning Meals into Memories

Eating is Storytelling: Ruby Tandoh on Turning Meals into Memories

“It’s about engaging all of your senses, and letting food, body, craving and daydream all bleed into one.”

By Ruby Tandoh | July 13, 2022

When Writing Becomes Traumatic: Reporting on the Jonestown Massacre

When Writing Becomes Traumatic: Reporting on the Jonestown Massacre

Julia Scheeres on the Things She Saw (and the Toll They Took)

By Julia Scheeres | July 13, 2022

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

By Alex Jennings | July 13, 2022

Seán Hewitt on Taking Refuge in <em>The Legend of Zelda</em>

Seán Hewitt on Taking Refuge in The Legend of Zelda

"That pixelated landscape holds an electric key to my mind: it is able to renew my sense of wonder"

By Seán Hewitt | July 12, 2022

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