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Live From the Edgars, Crime Writing's Big Night

Live From the Edgars, Crime Writing's Big Night

Lisa Levy Reports on Walter Mosley, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Speed-Eating While Live-Tweeting

By Lisa Levy | May 2, 2016

Walter Mosley's Lifetime Acceptance Speech from the Edgars

Walter Mosley's Lifetime Acceptance Speech from the Edgars

A True Master is Given His Due

By Literary Hub | May 2, 2016

Why Literature Needs Psychology

Why Literature Needs Psychology

Two Disciplines Wrestling With the Same Big Questions

By Jennifer R. Bernstein | May 2, 2016

The Life and Times of a True American Moral Hysteric

The Life and Times of a True American Moral Hysteric

In which Anthony Comstock, Chronic Masturbator,
Tries to Censor All the Mail in America

By Devin Leonard | May 2, 2016

How Billy Joel Taught Me To Write

How Billy Joel Taught Me To Write

Benjamin Wood Offers a Thoughtful and Irony-Free Appreciation of the Piano Man

By Benjamin Wood | May 2, 2016

Interview with a Bookstore: Book Culture

Interview with a Bookstore: Book Culture

Where Loyal Customers Hit Robbers In The Face

By Interview with a Bookstore | May 2, 2016

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Remembering Jenny Diski

By Literary Hub | April 29, 2016

The Vanishing Velazquez

By Lit Hub Excerpts | April 29, 2016

@diski, Inventive to the Last

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Jenny Diski Didn't Need Your Admiration

Jenny Diski Didn't Need Your Admiration

She Knew What She Meant

By Michelle Dean | April 29, 2016

Jenny Diski, A Woman Incapable of Self-Pity

Jenny Diski, A Woman Incapable of Self-Pity

An Exacting Intelligence That Terrified and Inspired in Equal Measure

By Charlotte Shane | April 29, 2016

Jenny Diski, My Maureen

Jenny Diski, My Maureen

Her Work Mitigated the Solitude of Parenting

By Rumaan Alam | April 29, 2016

Jenny Diski Was Afraid, But It Didn't Stop Her

Jenny Diski Was Afraid, But It Didn't Stop Her

She was balls-to-the-walls writing and dying

By Bridget Read | April 29, 2016

Jenny Diski Left Room For Her Readers

Jenny Diski Left Room For Her Readers

Haley Mlotek on a Special Copy of The Sixties

By Haley Mlotek | April 29, 2016

Jenny Diski Understood Things That No One Else Could Explain

Jenny Diski Understood Things That No One Else Could Explain

For Her, Everything Was Readable

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Jenny Diski Looked Cancer—And Her Readers—In The Eye

Jenny Diski Looked Cancer—And Her Readers—In The Eye

no bullshit, no sugar-coating, no imposed toughness

By Marta Bausells | April 29, 2016

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