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    Incarceration

    Looking for Love in a Prison Cell

    By Elizabeth Greenwood  July 12, 2021
    Freedom

    Carrot Quinn on the Danger—and Thrill—of Train Riding

    By Carrot Quinn  July 12, 2021
    Family Histories

    What Writing the Story of a Divorce Taught Me About My Own

    By Joyce Maynard  July 12, 2021
    Indigenous Peoples

    How Colonization and Christianity Challenged Indigenous Maya Spirituality—and Failed

    By Emil’ Keme  July 12, 2021
    Keen On

    How America’s Lack of Basic Support is Shortening Lives

    By Keen On  July 12, 2021
    Emergence Magazine

    Kimberly Ruffin Shares Her Guided Practice of Walking Through the Forest

    By Emergence Magazine  July 12, 2021
    The History of Literature

    Paintings in Literature: A Conversation with German Artist Charlie Stein

    By History of Literature  July 12, 2021
    The Hub

    Here are the best reviewed books of the week.

    By Book Marks  July 9, 2021
    Travel

    Now you can buy the glorious mansion where Mark Twain died.

    By Walker Caplan  July 9, 2021
    The Hub

    Javier Bardem is your new Lyle, Lyle Crocodile.

    By Dan Sheehan  July 9, 2021
    The Hub

    13 books perfectly summed up with one-liners from Gilmore Girls.

    By Katie Yee  July 9, 2021
    The Hub

    Sleeping or Dead? and other hilarious “practical books for librarians” in pulp classic form.

    By Emily Temple  July 9, 2021
    The Hub

    “She died sniffing life, and enjoying it.” Read E.B. White’s witty obituary for his dog Daisy.

    By Vanessa Willoughby  July 9, 2021
    The Hub

    Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist will finally be made into a movie, courtesy Will Smith.

    By Emily Temple  July 9, 2021
    Prison memoir

    Danny Trejo on Doing Time with Charles Manson and Finding Freedom in the Boxing Room

    By Danny Trejo with Donal Logue  July 9, 2021
    Interview with an Indie Press

    Interview with an Indie Press: Belt Publishing

    By Corinne Segal  July 9, 2021
    Running

    On the Ecstasy—and Agony—of Running an Ultramarathon in Your Seventies

    By Bernd Heinrich  July 9, 2021
    Alcohol

    The Science of Happy Hour: On the Irresistible Chemistry of Your Favorite Drinks

    By Kate Biberdorf  July 9, 2021
    The Literary Life

    Richard Flanagan on Writing (and Rewriting) Through the Devastating Bushfires in Tasmania and Australia

    By The Literary Life  July 9, 2021
    Jewish Literature

    What Makes Jewish Literature “Jewish”?

    By Ilan Stavans  July 9, 2021
    Mental health

    How Crafting Got Me Through the Worst 700 Days of My Life

    By Kelly Williams Brown  July 9, 2021
    Keen On

    David Potter on What Lenin and Luther Can Teach Us About Our Age of Disruption

    By Keen On  July 9, 2021
    Memoir

    “You Can’t Hide the Ocean.” On Finding My Way to the Interminable Sea

    By Cai Chongda  July 9, 2021
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Brian Broome, Nichole Perkins, Lilly Dancyger, and Courtney Cook at the Franklin Park Reading Series

    By The Virtual Book Channel  July 9, 2021
    The Craft of Writing

    Anne Lamott on Writing Compelling Dialogue

    By Anne Lamott  July 9, 2021
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