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Becoming a Writer Means Becoming a Cliché

Becoming a Writer Means Becoming a Cliché

Odie Lindsey on Quitting a Job, Moving to Italy, and Writing a Book

By Odie Lindsey | August 31, 2016

Slow Days, Fast Company

Slow Days, Fast Company

Eve Babitz

By Lit Hub Excerpts | August 29, 2016

Reading D.H. Lawrence on a Remote Swedish Island

Reading D.H. Lawrence on a Remote Swedish Island

Fredrik Sjöberg on Parables, Flies, and the Sea

By Fredrik Sjöberg | August 29, 2016

Why Can't Irish Writers Escape the Sea?

Why Can't Irish Writers Escape the Sea?

Brendan Mac Evilly Goes in Search of a Nice Spot to Swim

By Brendan Mac Evilly | August 26, 2016

How to Write While Traveling

How to Write While Traveling

Andrés Neuman's Fragments from a Latin American Book Tour

By Andrés Neuman | August 24, 2016

God, Guns, and Survival, Deep in the Heart of the Dust Bowl

God, Guns, and Survival, Deep in the Heart of the Dust Bowl

On Hardscrabble Life in the Oklahoma Panhandle

By Rae Meadows | August 22, 2016

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Blair Braverman is Obsessed with the Things That Scare Her Most

By Gemma de Choisy | August 12, 2016

Eating Carrion at the Icelandic Writers Retreat

By Anne Giardini | August 10, 2016

20 Writers From Around the World on the Olympics

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A Very Rare Book by One of America's All-Time Great Athletes

A Very Rare Book by One of America's All-Time Great Athletes

Visiting Jim Thorpe's $10,000 History of the Olympics

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An Entourage of One: On the Road with Stephen King

Traveling From Sewickley, PA to Reno, NV With an American Master

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An Incomplete Atlas of Fantastic Maps

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João and Raimunda: On The Injustices of Brazil's Belo Monte Project

João and Raimunda: On The Injustices of Brazil's Belo Monte Project

“I want the world to know that Belo Monte killed me.”

By Eliane Brum | July 28, 2016

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Speaking with the Legendary Goat Man

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Answering All the Questions About Human-Goat Transmogrification
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By Arvind Dilawar | July 22, 2016

What If I'm Actually a Character in a Larry McMurtry Novel?

What If I'm Actually a Character in a Larry McMurtry Novel?

On the Beautiful Losers of Texas, and Returning to Where You Came From

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