April 7 – 11, 2025
- Emily Polk considers bees and grief
- Art Spiegelman remembers Jules Feiffer
- On the reception of non-Western literature in the Western world
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What Kind of Day Job Should a Writer Have?
On Lessons Learned From a Long-Haired Soccer-Playing Cabinet Maker
Remembering the Poets Who Fought For Irish Independence
The 1916 Easter Rising Through Verse
The Bronte Cabinet
Deborah Lutz
“It was Charlotte’s poking around in Emily’s private writing space, in the autumn of 1845, that led to the sisters’ first appearance in print. While Charlotte practiced being out in the world with her writing, taking risks by unbending in letters, Emily penned poetry for herself alone, not sharing it with Anne either, even though the two still wrote Gondal stories together.”
If Jane Eyre Came Out Today Would It Be Marketed As Genre?
On Proto-Feminist and Commercial Powerhouse Charlotte Brontë
Charlotte Brontë May Have Started the Fire, But Jean Rhys Burned Down the House
Wide Sargasso Sea and The Limits of Bronte Feminism
On the Literature of Cyborgs, Robots, and Other Automata
From Mechanical Ducks to Mythic Metal Giants
Mitchell S. Jackson’s The Residue Years, Part Three
The Story of a Writer's Life, from Prison to Publication
Daredevils
Shawn Vestal
“Loretta slides open her bedroom window and waits, listening to the house. She pops out the screen and slowly pulls it inside. The summer night is blue and black, filled with plump, spiny stars and the floral waft of alfalfa and irrigated fields.”
In Which Karl Ove Knausgaard Hangs Out in His Car, Talking
On Life, Children, and Not Really Caring What America Thinks
Mitchell S. Jackson’s The Residue Years, Part Two
The Story of a Writer's Life, from Prison to Publication
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