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    The PEN America Literary Awards have been cancelled.

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    Queer Literature

    Dorothy Allison: “In the Stories We Share and Those We Have Not Yet Crafted—We Live Forever”

    By Dorothy Allison  April 22, 2024
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    “We are Here.” On Rediscovering Safety and Beauty in the Wonders of Nature

    By Aimee Nezhukumatathil  April 22, 2024
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    What Medieval Poets Can Teach Us About Climate Change, and What Evangelicals Today Get Wrong

    By Eleanor Johnson  April 22, 2024
    Fathers and Daughters

    Two Vietnams: Chronicling a Father and Daughter’s Shared Love For the Same Country

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    Announcing the Winners of the 2024 O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction

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    Taylor Swift

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    Bookstores

    Paul Yamazaki on the Important, Joyous Work of Running an Independent Bookstore

    By Paul Yamazaki  April 19, 2024
    Revolutionaries

    The Byronic Revolution of Che Guevara

    By Ed Simon  April 19, 2024
    The Myth of the Middle Class Writer

    How Much is Enough? On the Writerly Balance Between Money and Time

    By Ryan Chapman  April 19, 2024
    Women in Science

    How Lydia Ernestine Becker Was Once Central to—Then Excluded from—the Study of Botany

    By Erin Zimmerman  April 19, 2024
    Libraries

    An Oasis in the Desert: Why Libraries Are the Best Places to Write

    By Rahul Mehta  April 19, 2024
    The Hub

    Palestinian American poet Fady Joudah has won the $100,000 Jackson Poetry Prize.

    By Dan Sheehan  April 18, 2024
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    These are the “most influential” writers of the year.

    By Emily Temple  April 18, 2024
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    Here are the finalists for the NYPL’s 2024 Young Lions Fiction Award.

    By James Folta  April 18, 2024
    Twitterverse

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    Free Speech

    PEN President Jennifer Finney Boylan Announces Plans to Review PEN’s Work Going Back a Decade

    By Literary Hub  April 18, 2024
    Bookselling

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    By Samantha Ladwig  April 18, 2024
    Talk Easy

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    By Talk Easy  April 18, 2024
    The Myth of the Middle Class Writer

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    On The Self

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    On Grief

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    A case for replacing the Times’ op-ed section with these classic columns.

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