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    Edwidge Danticat: A Prayer Before Dying

    By Edwidge Danticat  May 7, 2015
    Essay

    The Morning After His Family Buried Freddie Gray

    By Michael Downs  May 7, 2015
    Excerpts

    Food and Happiness

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  May 7, 2015
    Essay

    How to Write the Holocaust Through the Eyes of a Child

    By Jim Shepard  May 7, 2015
    Speech

    Sayed Kashua: No Choice But to Pray

    By Sayed Kashua  May 7, 2015
    Speech

    Where Are the West’s Political Novelists?

    By Aminatta Forna  May 6, 2015
    Events

    Hands On at PEN World Voices

    By Kerri Arsenault  May 6, 2015
    Events

    The First Day in the Life of a Brand New Bookstore

    By Kate Jacobs  May 6, 2015
    Essay

    The Day Virginia Woolf Brought Her Mom Back to Life

    By Christopher Frizzelle  May 6, 2015
    Events

    Last Night at PEN World Voices: Dystopian Africa

    By Rahawa Haile  May 5, 2015
    Conversation

    ‘The Argonauts’: Diary, Theory, Poem, Memoir

    By Adam Fitzgerald  May 5, 2015
    Music

    Listen to Willie Nelson’s New Memoir-Inspired Song

    By Literary Hub  May 5, 2015
    Essay

    How to Eat a Forest: In Two Acts

    By Billy Kahora  May 4, 2015
    Q and A

    Interview with a Bookstore: BookCourt

    By Interview with a Bookstore  May 4, 2015
    Archives

    A Preview of this week’s PEN World Voices Festival

    By Rahawa Haile  May 4, 2015
    Events

    Saturday in the Store: A Diary

    By Brazos Staff  May 4, 2015
    Excerpts

    Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science and the World

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  May 1, 2015
    Excerpts

    The Ghost Army of World War II

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  April 30, 2015
    Essay

    A Very Welsh Essay About Badgers

    By Cynan Jones  April 30, 2015
    Conversation

    Independent Bookstore Day is Coming!

    By Literary Hub  April 30, 2015
    Events

    A Night at the Authors Guild Gala

    By Literary Hub  April 29, 2015
    Where to Go

    The Most Literate City in America?

    By Tracy Mumford  April 28, 2015
    Conversation

    Interview with a Bookstore: Parnassus Books

    By Interview with a Bookstore  April 27, 2015
    Art

    Original Art for Riverhead’s Fall Books

    By Literary Hub  April 27, 2015
    Essay

    The Millionaire and the Bard

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  April 24, 2015
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