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Hard Truth and Deep Trauma Behind Bars

Hard Truth and Deep Trauma Behind Bars

Teaching Memoir Writing to the Women of the Maine Correctional Facility

By Mira Ptacin | March 24, 2016

Who Will Win Bookstore of the Year?

Who Will Win Bookstore of the Year?

Talking to the Finalists for the Publishers Weekly Award

By Michele Filgate | March 24, 2016

How to Be a Whaler's Wife in 1908: Boil Everything, Wash the Clothes in Gin

How to Be a Whaler's Wife in 1908: Boil Everything, Wash the Clothes in Gin

Shirley Barrett Goes Deep into the Domestic Research

By Shirley Barrett | March 23, 2016

Donald Trump's Sentimental Journey to the Top

Donald Trump's Sentimental Journey to the Top

Revisiting Joan Didion on 90s NYC, to Make Sense of Present Day America

By Kristen Martin | March 22, 2016

A Brief History of New York Values

A Brief History of New York Values

David Reid on Truman, Wallace, and the Seething Immorality of Greenwich Village

By David Reid | March 22, 2016

Neither Mad Nor Motherless: On Emily Dickinson's Self-Creation

Neither Mad Nor Motherless: On Emily Dickinson's Self-Creation

Of Mothers and Daughters and Not-So-Crazy Poets

By Jerome Charyn | March 22, 2016

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By Lit Hub Excerpts | March 22, 2016

To Be Irish in New York on St. Patrick's Day

By Dan Sheehan | March 21, 2016

Reading Lessons from My Teenage Self

By Carla Bruce-Eddings | March 21, 2016

At the Tucson Festival of Books: Freaks, Cranks, Poets, and More

At the Tucson Festival of Books: Freaks, Cranks, Poets, and More

A Literary Scene at the Edge of the Desert

By Mark Athitakis | March 21, 2016

Kashmir: Border State, Dream State

Kashmir: Border State, Dream State

Githa Hariharan on a Crisis in Paradise

By Githa Hariharan | March 21, 2016

Interview with a Bookstore: Octavia Books

Interview with a Bookstore: Octavia Books

Defying the Odds since 2000

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Why You Should Watch the New Nora Ephron Documentary

Why You Should Watch the New Nora Ephron Documentary

Michelle Dean On Everything is Copy, and the art of Ephronology

By Michelle Dean | March 18, 2016

When the Apocalypse is Your Religion

When the Apocalypse is Your Religion

On Leaving the Church and Finding a Haven in Science Fiction

By Rachel Kessler | March 18, 2016

The Modern Sisyphus: Albert Camus Goes Online

The Modern Sisyphus: Albert Camus Goes Online

Struggling With—And Against—The Internet

By Michael Seidlinger | March 18, 2016

Celebrating 75 Years of Paper Dolls

Celebrating 75 Years of Paper Dolls

Thourougly researched, thoroughly enjoyable!

By Literary Hub | March 18, 2016

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