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    By Keen On  May 14, 2021
    Celebrity

    Chasing the Hollywood Dream:
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    By Katherine St. John  May 14, 2021
    The Craft of Writing

    Olivia Laing on Writing the Global Story of Liberation

    By Olivia Laing  May 14, 2021
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Patricia Lockwood, Jillian Weise, Khalisa Rae, and Gina Nutt at the Franklin Park Reading Series

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    Interview with an Indie Press

    Interview with an Indie Press: Tin House

    By Corinne Segal  May 14, 2021
    Open Source

    On Neoliberal Exclusion in India’s COVID-19 Crisis

    By Open Source  May 14, 2021
    Behind the Mic

    Food Americana by David Page, Read by Jonathan Yen

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    The Hub

    A new fellowship will provide unrestricted $25,000 grants to Puerto Rican writers.

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    Meditation

    Private Practice: Toward a Philosophy of Just Sitting

    By Antonia Pont  May 13, 2021
    The Writing Life

    When an Apparition of Virginia Woolf Interrupts Your Writing Process

    By Rachel Eisendrath  May 13, 2021
    Jane Austen

    Why Did I Wait So Long to Read Jane Austen?

    By Joshua Raff  May 13, 2021
    Birds

    On the Care and Keeping of Mythological Apparitions

    By Sean Flynn  May 13, 2021
    Philosophy

    How Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger’s Relationship Can Inform Our Current Crises

    By Joshua Corey  May 13, 2021
    African American Literature

    Tayari Jones on The Women of Brewster Place, Nearly Forty Years Later

    By Tayari Jones  May 13, 2021
    Power

    Beyond Good and Evil: Reconsidering the Toxic Myth of the “Transgressive” Artist

    By Martha C. Nussbaum  May 13, 2021
    Mountaineering

    “Why Are You Doing This?” On Mountaineering in the 21st Century

    By Margret Grebowicz  May 13, 2021
    Keen On

    Natasha Lennard: How to Exorcise the Ghost of Trump

    By Keen On  May 13, 2021
    On Poetry

    A Lifetime of Luminous Poetry: Nandana Dev Sen on Translating the Work of Her Mother, Nabaneeta

    By Nandana Dev Sen  May 13, 2021
    Red Ink Series

    Live at the Red Ink Series: How Desire Propels the Writing Life

    By Literary Hub  May 13, 2021
    Open Form

    Nate Marshall on Robert Townsend… Greatest American Filmmaker?

    By Open Form  May 13, 2021
    Behind the Mic

    Fierce Poise by Alexander Nemerov, Read by Alison Fraser

    By Behind the Mic   May 13, 2021
    The Hub

    Here are the winners of Publishing Triangle’s 33rd annual Triangle Awards.

    By Walker Caplan  May 12, 2021
    The Hub

    This legislator is trying to limit the “enormous economic and social power” of . . . fact-checkers.

    By Walker Caplan  May 12, 2021
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