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    Letters Home

    Letter From Exile: Finding Home
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    By Samiya Bashir  July 23, 2020
    Craft

    How Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure Taught Me to Write

    By Lucie Britsch  July 23, 2020
    Cartoons

    Adrian Tomine Confronts Shame, Failure, and Jerks in Cartooning

    By Emily Gould  July 23, 2020
    Bookselling

    It’s Past Time for the Bookselling Industry to Reckon with Its Institutional Racism

    By Angela Maria Spring  July 23, 2020
    Science fiction

    Arthur C. Clarke’s Scientific Romances Eschew Spectacle for Dumbstruck Wonder

    By John Clute  July 23, 2020
    Theater

    On the 19th-Century Actress Who Transformed Gender Dynamics in American Theater

    By Tana Wojczuk  July 23, 2020
    Feminism

    The Complicated History of Feminism’s Impact on Incarceration

    By Aya Gruber  July 23, 2020
    On Poetry

    On Exploiting the Labor of a Dear Friend, Who is Also a Poet

    By Rebecca Wolff  July 23, 2020
    Franklin Park Reading Series

    Franklin Park Reading Series: Starring Blake Butler, Tracy O’Neill, Maisy Card, and Ashleigh Bryant Phillips

    By The Virtual Book Channel  July 22, 2020
    AI

    From Hemingway-inspired fan fiction to pun-filled poems, a new language-generating AI does it all.

    By Aaron Robertson  July 22, 2020
    The Hub

    A Hulu series based on Curtis Sittenfeld’s Rodham is in the works.

    By Jessie Gaynor  July 22, 2020
    The Hub

    YA superstar Jason Reynolds just sold his debut novel for adults.

    By Emily Temple  July 22, 2020
    The Hub

    How to write about a 4-year-old poet’s book deal without getting sad.

    By Jonny Diamond  July 22, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    What is Essential? And Who?

    By Siri Hustvedt  July 22, 2020
    Immigration

    How John Steinbeck’s Final Novel Grappled With Immigration and Morality

    By Tobias Carroll  July 22, 2020
    Storytelling

    Why Stories Makes Sense of Our Lives (and Relationships)

    By Frank Tallis  July 22, 2020
    Twins

    A Genealogy of Twins: On Identity and Projected Lives

    By Larry Watson  July 22, 2020
    Publishing

    A Love Letter to Developmental Editors

    By R.L. Maizes  July 22, 2020
    Palestine

    To Be the Poet of Troy:
    An Interview with Mosab Abu Toha by Philip Metres

    By Philip Metres  July 22, 2020
    In Memoriam

    Remembering Australian Novelist Elizabeth Harrower

    By Michael Heyward  July 22, 2020
    Film

    Oliver Stone on Bringing the Spirit of Homer’s Epics to the Screen in Platoon

    By Oliver Stone  July 22, 2020
    The Antibody Reading Series

    Antibody: Starring Mary South, Elisabeth Thomas, and Kristen Millares Young

    By The Antibody Reading Series  July 22, 2020
    Diversity in Literature

    The BLM movement is inspiring a boom in diverse children’s literature.

    By Aaron Robertson  July 21, 2020
    Bay Area Book Festival #UNBOUND

    WATCH: What Does Nature Writing Mean in 2020?

    By The Virtual Book Channel  July 21, 2020
    The Hub

    Irvine Welsh and Bret Easton Ellis are creating a satirical tv show about a tabloid magazine.

    By Jonny Diamond  July 21, 2020
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