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I Watched a Baby Being Born So I Could Write My Book

I Watched a Baby Being Born So I Could Write My Book

Janice P. Nimura on Her Research Process for The Doctors Blackwell

By Janice P. Nimura | January 20, 2021

Writing Through the Silences of a Lost Family History

Writing Through the Silences of a Lost Family History

Jonathan Lichtenstein on Unearthing the WWII Past of His Father

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How Economists Turned America Against the Minimum Wage

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Read an open letter from publishing professionals condemning Trump enablers’ book deals.

By Walker Caplan | January 19, 2021

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25 Essential Notes on Craft from Matthew Salesses

Rethinking Popular Assumptions of Fiction Writing

By Matthew Salesses | January 19, 2021

Conflagration and Catastrophe: On Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Doom of COVID-19

Conflagration and Catastrophe: On Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Doom of COVID-19

Daniel Allen Cox: "Symbolism allows us to avoid thinking about the thing itself."

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"Howland wrote a book that I thought was impossible to write."

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