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The Wild and Elemental City: Finding Life in Pandemic<br> New York

The Wild and Elemental City: Finding Life in Pandemic
New York

Megan Fernandes: “What counts as ‘natural’ says more about who counts as human.”

By Megan Fernandes | March 25, 2021

When You Take a Sailing Trip for Novel Research and It’s a Total Disaster

When You Take a Sailing Trip for Novel Research and It’s a Total Disaster

Amity Gaige Nearly Gets Lost at Sea

By Amity Gaige | March 24, 2021

The Art of Belief: On Talking to the Dead in Lily Dale

The Art of Belief: On Talking to the Dead in Lily Dale

Laura Maylene Walter Considers the Future of the Living

By Laura Maylene Walter | March 23, 2021

Coming of Age in a Struggling Berkeley Bookstore

Coming of Age in a Struggling Berkeley Bookstore

Nicola DeRobertis-Theye on Finding Community Working at University Press Books

By Nicola DeRobertis-Theye | March 23, 2021

Learning to Go With the Flow, in Rafting and in Writing

Learning to Go With the Flow, in Rafting and in Writing

Andrew J. Graff on the Hard Work of Staying Loose

By Andrew J. Graff | March 23, 2021

On Fighting For Space in the Literary World as a Black Canadian Writer

On Fighting For Space in the Literary World as a Black Canadian Writer

Cheryl Thompson is Grateful for the Wisdom of Toni Morrison

By Cheryl Thompson | March 22, 2021

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On Navigating a Polyglot’s Life Between Bangla and English

By Saikat Majumdar | March 22, 2021

Our Memories, Ourselves: On Getting an Unexpected Note from a Childhood Bully

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Chronicle of a Fiesta: Remembering the Dishes of a Oaxaca Childhood

Chronicle of a Fiesta: Remembering the Dishes of a Oaxaca Childhood

Alejandro Ruiz on Planning a Mayordomía and Embracing Culinary Birthrights

By Alejandro Ruiz and Carla Altesor | March 19, 2021

Sixty Years of Tracking Publications... and Rejections

Sixty Years of Tracking Publications... and Rejections

Jay Neugeboren on Coming to Terms With What Matters in a Life of Writing

By Jay Neugeboren | March 18, 2021

Immobilized and in Love with Albertine Sarrazin, Patron Saint of Delinquent Writers

Immobilized and in Love with Albertine Sarrazin, Patron Saint of Delinquent Writers

“I cannot move. Sarrazin comes to my aid.”

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Imagining Isolation: When the Plots of Your Fiction Spill Into the Real World

Imagining Isolation: When the Plots of Your Fiction Spill Into the Real World

Paul Lynch on Life and Literature in COVID Lockdown

By Paul Lynch | March 18, 2021

Finding Home: On the Journey Back to Writing as a Single Mother

Finding Home: On the Journey Back to Writing as a Single Mother

Kelly McMasters: “My own writing, meanwhile, was like a distant song.”

By Kelly McMasters | March 17, 2021

At New Directions University: Literary and Life Lessons from an Iconic Publisher

At New Directions University: Literary and Life Lessons from an Iconic Publisher

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How Japan’s Wind Phone Became a Bridge Between Life and Death

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