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    “There is an inclination to punish women.” Elizabeth Hardwick on writing while female.

    By Walker Caplan  July 27, 2021
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    This new Scottish bookstore will only stock books written by women.

    By Walker Caplan  July 27, 2021
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    A24 is adapting Octavia Butler’s SF classic Parable of the Sower.

    By Walker Caplan  July 27, 2021
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    Here’s the 2021 Booker Prize longlist.

    By Emily Temple  July 27, 2021
    Storytelling

    The Benefits of People-Watching: How My Weird Subway Ritual Became a Storytelling Device

    By Nora Zelevansky  July 27, 2021
    The Writing Life

    Alix Ohlin on Navigating the Rich Literary Territory of Dysfunctional Family Dynamics

    By Jane Ciabattari  July 27, 2021
    Keen On

    Sheera Frenkel on Facebook’s Fall from Grace

    By Keen On  July 27, 2021
    Authors in the Tent

    WATCH: Quan Huynh on Finding Freedom From Behind Bars

    By The Virtual Book Channel  July 27, 2021
    Identity

    How a Doctor-in-Training Learned to Accept Her Stuttering—and Uplift Others

    By Dr. Leana Wen  July 27, 2021
    American History

    The Overlooked Story of Two Women in the Southampton Slave Rebellion

    By Vanessa M. Holden  July 27, 2021
    In Memoriam

    Remembering Late Nights With Pedro Gomez, Beloved Baseball Reporter

    By Dave Sheinin  July 27, 2021
    The Hub

    Joe Jonas is Haruki Murakami’s newest celebrity fan.

    By Walker Caplan  July 26, 2021
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    Here are the six winners of this year’s Helen Merrill Award for Playwriting.

    By Walker Caplan  July 26, 2021
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    Garth Greenwell’s What Belongs to You is becoming an opera.

    By Walker Caplan  July 26, 2021
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    Stephen King is about to take over podcasts.

    By Vanessa Willoughby  July 26, 2021
    The Hub

    Octavia Butler’s 1979 bio is an object lesson in writing author bios.

    By Emily Temple  July 26, 2021
    Italian Literature

    Mary Jo Bang Wonders Why It Takes So Long to Meet Beatrice in Dante’s Inferno

    By Mary Jo Bang  July 26, 2021
    Sports

    Tales of a Bright Young Sportswriter at the 1969 NBA Finals

    By Leigh Montville  July 26, 2021
    Jane Austen

    How an 18th-Century Cookbook Offers Glimpses of Jane Austen’s Domestic Life

    By Julienne Gehrer   July 26, 2021
    Climate Crisis

    Would You Give Up Air-Conditioning If You Knew It Would Save the Planet?

    By Eric Dean Wilson  July 26, 2021
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Kiese Laymon in Conversation with Robert Jones, Jr.

    By The Virtual Book Channel  July 26, 2021
    Incarceration

    On Molly Williams, One of America’s First Female Firefighters

    By Jaime Lowe  July 26, 2021
    Emergence Magazine

    “Joy Is the Justice We Give Ourselves.” A Poem by J. Drew Lanham

    By Emergence Magazine  July 26, 2021
    Keen On

    Richard Leider on Growing into Yourself with Age

    By Keen On  July 26, 2021
    Utopias

    Finding the Fault Lines Beneath Auroville’s Utopian Dreams

    By Akash Kapur  July 26, 2021
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