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Chance Encounters and Intimate Exchanges With Literary Icons

Chance Encounters and Intimate Exchanges With Literary Icons

Jonas Mekas on Stealing Anaïs Nin's Cookies and Receiving Poems from Allen Ginsberg

By Jonas Mekas | October 6, 2017

How a History of Two Pet Chameleons Made a Case for the Animal Soul

How a History of Two Pet Chameleons Made a Case for the Animal Soul

On Madeleine de Scudéry’s History of “The Most Beautiful Animal in the World”

By Peter Sahlins | October 6, 2017

40 of the Creepiest Book Covers of All Time

40 of the Creepiest Book Covers of All Time

Open if You Dare

By Emily Temple | October 6, 2017

To Avoid Abuse, I Became Anansi the Trickster

To Avoid Abuse, I Became Anansi the Trickster

For Freeman's, Garnette Cadogan on a Childhood Hiding Behind Fictions

By Garnette Cadogan | October 5, 2017

The 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature Goes to Kazuo Ishiguro

The 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature Goes to Kazuo Ishiguro

Author of Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go

By Emily Temple | October 5, 2017

Why Does Literature Have So Little to Say About Illness?

Why Does Literature Have So Little to Say About Illness?

Meghan O'Rourke on the Need for More Representation

By Meghan O'Rourke | October 5, 2017

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Haruki Murakami on His Favorite Young Novelist: Mieko Kawakami

By Haruki Murakami | October 4, 2017

10 Tales of Manuscript Burning (And Some That Survived)

By Emily Temple | October 4, 2017

A Brief History of Litquake, a San Francisco Literary Institution

By Jane Ciabattari | October 4, 2017

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5 Books Making News this Week: Power, Prequels, and Pulitzer Winners

Ta-Nehisi Coates, Adam Gopnik, Jennifer Egan, and More

By Jane Ciabattari | October 4, 2017

Announcing the Winners of the 2017 Dayton Literary Peace Prize

Announcing the Winners of the 2017 Dayton Literary Peace Prize

The only international literary peace prize awarded in the United States

By Emily Temple | October 3, 2017

Remembering My Father, His Gifts, and His Glass Eye

Remembering My Father, His Gifts, and His Glass Eye

"Encapsulating Him in Plain Language Feels Impossible"

By Jeannie Vanasco | October 3, 2017

On the Move With the Donkey-Powered Mobile Libraries of Zimbabwe

On the Move With the Donkey-Powered Mobile Libraries of Zimbabwe

A Look at the Country's Rural Libraries and Resources Development Programme

By Christine Ro | October 2, 2017

Growing Up Gay in a Proud Southern Family

Growing Up Gay in a Proud Southern Family

"The Thing I Feared Most in Myself Would One Day Be My Greatest Joy"

By Armistead Maupin | October 2, 2017

Where Can the Literary Documentary Go From Here?

Where Can the Literary Documentary Go From Here?

What Four Offerings from the NYFF Say About the State of the Genre

By Craig Hubert | September 29, 2017

Celebrating 25 Years of Poetry in Motion

Celebrating 25 Years of Poetry in Motion

Writing Back to a Legacy, 200 Plus Poems Strong (and Counting)

By Catherine Woodard | September 29, 2017

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