WATCH: David Means and Candace Bushnell on Solitude and Sociability

WATCH: David Means and Candace Bushnell on Solitude and Sociability

In Conversation with V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell on Fiction/Non/Fiction Live

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Your Week in Virtual Book Events, May 18 to 24

Your Week in Virtual Book Events, May 18 to 24

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By Penina Roth | May 18, 2020

Let's drool over this Japanese house with a public library on the ground floor.

Let's drool over this Japanese house with a public library on the ground floor.

By Jessie Gaynor | May 18, 2020

How a Pandemic Happens: We Knew This Was Coming

How a Pandemic Happens: We Knew This Was Coming

Mike Davis on the Inevitability of Catastrophe

By Mike Davis | May 18, 2020

How E.M. Forster's Only Foray Into Sci-Fi Predicted Social Distancing

How E.M. Forster's Only Foray Into Sci-Fi Predicted Social Distancing

Gabrielle Bellot on the Prescient Parallels of "The Machine Stops"

By Gabrielle Bellot | May 18, 2020

On the City of Florence's Struggle to Get Back Dante's Body

On the City of Florence's Struggle to Get Back Dante's Body

The City That Rejected the Poet Came to Regret It

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How Energy, Chaos, and a Flair for Entertainment Created Nightly News

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Here's Katherine Anne Porter describing how she resisted death during the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic.

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Oh my (demi)god: Percy Jackson is going to be a TV show.

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Time for Nerd Jeopardy! (A Literary Trivia Game Show)

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Why Do Some Writers Burn Their Work?

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Alex George on the Satisfying Spectacle of Torching It All

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With Apologies to Susan Sontag, We're Going to Need Metaphor to Get Through This Global Illness

With Apologies to Susan Sontag, We're Going to Need Metaphor to Get Through This Global Illness

David Farrier on the Ways We Talk About Coronavirus

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Why <em>Sesame Street</em> Was a Revolutionary Force for Children's Television

Why Sesame Street Was a Revolutionary Force for Children's Television

David Kamp on the Radical Creators of an Iconic Show

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When it Comes to Coronavirus, What Does 'After' Mean?

When it Comes to Coronavirus, What Does 'After' Mean?

Eva Holland on Writing About Fear

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Meet the Stone Collector of Iceland's Eastern Coast

Meet the Stone Collector of Iceland's Eastern Coast

A. Kendra Greene Gathers the History of a Life

By A. Kendra Greene | May 15, 2020

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