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    Just the Right Book

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    Writing Advice

    Bob Eckstein Draws His Way Through the Writer’s Digest Annual Conference

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    Immigration

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    Criticism

    My Decade of Falling in Love with the Writing of José Esteban Muñoz

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    The Hub

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    14-year-old literary activist Marley Dias on how her generation is fighting for the future.

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    Rachel Cusk’s house is an austere, experimental, hyper-modern masterpiece. (Shocking, right?)

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    A robot read 3.5 million books to find we describe women by appearance, and men by virtue.

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    Language

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    Literary Legends

    Tracking Down My Literary Idol to a San Francisco Commune

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    Ancient History

    The Death of Alexander the Great: One of History’s Great Unsolved Mysteries

    By Anthony Everitt  August 28, 2019
    Small Press Flea

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    Drugs

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    Reading Across America

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    Democracy

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    The Hub

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    By Jessie Gaynor  August 27, 2019
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