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    The Whiting Foundation awarded $50,000 to each of these emerging writers.

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    Someone please tell us how we can watch Margaret Atwood’s Edgar Allan Poe puppet show.

    By Jessie Gaynor  March 25, 2020
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    Help out the NYPL and pass the time with this New York City oral history project.

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    Diane Seuss:
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    Lynne Tillman on the Small Act of Leaving the House

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    One Utah County’s Decades-Long Struggle for the Native American Vote

    By David Daley  March 25, 2020
    History

    The Black Descendants of President Madison

    By Bettye Kearse  March 25, 2020
    Memoir

    Abbie Greaves on the Merits
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    Playwright Terrence McNally, who wrote the musical Ragtime, has died from coronavirus.

    By Emily Temple  March 24, 2020
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    Sheltering: Bess Kalb on Pandemic Eating and Having a Book Party with Your Cat

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    Stephen King apparently can’t decide whether The Stand applies to the current moment.

    By Dan Sheehan  March 24, 2020
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    Read an exclusive excerpt from N.K. Jemisin’s new novel, The City We Became.

    By N.K. Jemisin  March 24, 2020
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    The New Silences of Rome Under Quarantine

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    Literary Biographies

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    The Antibody Reading Series

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