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Open Secrets at the PEN World Voices Festival

Open Secrets at the PEN World Voices Festival

Contemporary Writers on the Crucial Merging of the Personal and the Public in Literature and Politics

By Matt Grant | May 7, 2019

Secret Trysts and Lost Weekends at the Chateau Marmont

Secret Trysts and Lost Weekends at the Chateau Marmont

How a Run-Down Hollywood Hotel Achieved Legend Status

By Zan Romanoff | May 7, 2019

On Elizabeth Bishop, Loss, and Coming Out After 20 Years in a Convent

On Elizabeth Bishop, Loss, and Coming Out After 20 Years in a Convent

Patricia Dwyer Revisits the Spaces She Has Lost

By Patricia M. Dwyer | May 7, 2019

Reading the Selfie-Filled Memoir of Halldór Laxness

Reading the Selfie-Filled Memoir of Halldór Laxness

What's Not to Love About Descriptions of Food and Strong Opinions About Poets?

By Gerður Kristný | May 7, 2019

How Eudora Welty's Photography Captured My Grandmother's History

How Eudora Welty's Photography Captured My Grandmother's History

Natasha Trethewey on Experiencing a Past Not Our Own

By Natasha Trethewey | May 7, 2019

Birthing Calfs, Writing Novels: This is My Job Now

Birthing Calfs, Writing Novels: This is My Job Now

John Connell on Passing Life's Tests, Big and Small

By John Connell | May 7, 2019

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On Founding One of Literature's Most Beautiful Collections

By Amos Reichman | May 7, 2019

Royal Baby! (Why Is America So Obsessed with
the British Monarchy?)

By Robert Morrison | May 6, 2019

Revolutionary Travel Writer
Georg Forster's Passionate Beginnings

By Jürgen Goldstein | May 6, 2019

Jon Meacham on E.B. White and American Democracy

Jon Meacham on E.B. White and American Democracy

"White’s patriotism is clear-eyed; his nationalism nonexistent."

By Jon Meacham | May 6, 2019

Taking an Author's Photo Is Like Going on a First Date

Taking an Author's Photo Is Like Going on a First Date

Nina Subin on the Careful Process of Taking a Writer's Headshot

By Nina Subin | May 6, 2019

The New Toolkit For Opening Up Your Memoir Writing

The New Toolkit For Opening Up Your Memoir Writing

Eve Makis on Creating Outlets for Those Who Might Not Have Them

By Eve Makis | May 6, 2019

How to Use Red, White, and Blue on a Book Cover (Without Going Too Patriotic)

How to Use Red, White, and Blue on a Book Cover (Without Going Too Patriotic)

Nicole Caputo on Designing the Cover for The Atlas of Reds and Blues

By Nicole Caputo | May 6, 2019

Interview with a Bookstore:<br> The Silver Unicorn

Interview with a Bookstore:
The Silver Unicorn

A New Little Store with Big Dreams

By Interview with a Bookstore | May 6, 2019

Here's the World's First Public Gallery of Modern Art

Here's the World's First Public Gallery of Modern Art

Hugh Lane and the Art Gallery as Theater

By Morna O'Neill | May 6, 2019

On the Life-Hacking Origins<br> of Incel Entitlement

On the Life-Hacking Origins
of Incel Entitlement

“We can safely say I'll be dead before I find the proverbial
girl of my dreams.”

By Joseph M. Reagle, Jr. | May 3, 2019

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