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No One is Writing the Real West Virginia

No One is Writing the Real West Virginia

Why Rural Lives and Literature are in Crisis

By Matthew Neill Null | May 9, 2016

Interview with a Bookstore: Heffers Bookshop

Interview with a Bookstore: Heffers Bookshop

Cambridge's Go-To Bookshop is So Old, Someone's Writing Its History Book

By Interview with a Bookstore | May 9, 2016

On Discovering Real Mothers on the Page

On Discovering Real Mothers on the Page

Pamela Erens, Rivka Glachen, Julia Fierro, and writing about motherhood

By Jordan Rosenfeld | May 6, 2016

Why Writers Shouldn't Boycott North Carolina

Why Writers Shouldn't Boycott North Carolina

Protest Should Be in the Trenches, Not From Afar

By Lucy Kogler | May 6, 2016

Tyehimba Jess on Excavating Popular Music Through Poetry

Tyehimba Jess on Excavating Popular Music Through Poetry

Exploring the Sustenance of Song and Historical Clapbacks

By Adam Fitzgerald | May 5, 2016

Matthew Griffin: Notes from My Book Tour

Matthew Griffin: Notes from My Book Tour

In Which the Author Gapes at Former Bachelor Jake Pavelka and Discovers an Ancient Twig House

By Matthew Griffin | May 5, 2016

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On the $50K Acid Trip That Inspired the Grateful Dead's "Black Peter"

By Buzz Poole | May 5, 2016

What is the Writer's Place in a Violent World?

By Maaza Mengiste | May 5, 2016

On the Quest to Write in a Third Language

By Amara Lakhous | May 4, 2016

The Free Market Isn't Really Free

The Free Market Isn't Really Free

Robert B. Reich on Power, Big Banks, and Democracy

By Robert B. Reich | May 4, 2016

Fiction Can Still Do Anything It Wants: Jennifer Egan on Don DeLillo

Fiction Can Still Do Anything It Wants: Jennifer Egan on Don DeLillo

"Delillo's work is made of stealthy blessings"

By Jennifer Egan | May 3, 2016

Don DeLillo on the Life of a Book

Don DeLillo on the Life of a Book

From His Speech at the 2015 National Book Awards

By Don DeLillo | May 3, 2016

Interview with a Library: The London Library

Interview with a Library: The London Library

Fed Up with "Snorers and Wheezers," Thomas Carlyle Started His Own Library

By Literary Hub | May 3, 2016

Five Books Making News This Week: Legends, Looting, and Lambs

Five Books Making News This Week: Legends, Looting, and Lambs

Don DeLillo, Tom Burgis, Lydia Millet, and More

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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

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