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    Robert Caro’s many, many papers have found a home in New York.

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    Novelist Don Winslow offers to donate $75K to St. Jude’s if the White House holds a press briefing.

    By Jessie Gaynor  January 8, 2020
    The Writing Life

    Ten Writers Reflect on Their First Big YES

    By Benjamin Schaefer  January 8, 2020
    Language

    Why We Love
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    Travel

    The Safe Havens and No-Go Zones for 20th-Century Black American Travelers

    By Candacy Taylor  January 8, 2020
    On Writing Better

    Chuck Palahniuk on the Importance of Not Boring
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    By Chuck Palahniuk  January 8, 2020
    Reading Series

    On the Reading Series Born From Political Action

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    What Lotería Means to Me—And My Writing

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    Sarah Moss on Ghost Walls, Violence Against Women, and Social Structures

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    EXCLUSIVE COVER REVEAL: Jill Bialosky’s August poetry collection, Asylum, has a cover.

    By Jonny Diamond  January 7, 2020
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    Elizabeth Wurtzel, author of Prozac Nation, has died at 52.

    By Corinne Segal  January 7, 2020
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    Jack Reacher Lee Child announced as one of five Booker Prize judges.

    By Jonny Diamond  January 7, 2020
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    Stacey Abrams is writing a book on voter suppression, and it’s coming out in June.

    By Corinne Segal  January 7, 2020
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    On the Mathematical Problem of Human Creativity

    By Kit Yates  January 7, 2020
    Communication

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    On Racism

    Chloé Hilliard on Confronting Racist Stereotypes in Hollywood’s Casting Rooms

    By Chloé Hilliard  January 7, 2020
    Russian Literature

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    Irish writer gets into Twitter fight with… the Auschwitz Memorial Museum?

    By Jonny Diamond  January 6, 2020
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    As Australia burns, writers seek to help those fighting the fires.

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    At the Literary Intersection of Climate Disaster, Apocalypse, and Folk Horror

    By Tobias Carroll  January 6, 2020
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