Snapshots of Life: Storytelling and Outlaw Culture in Eastern Kentucky
Bobi Conn Explores Her Appalachian Family’s Long Tradition of Unreliable Narrators and Morally Gray Characters
Oprah’s Book Club and… Dying? How Do Writers Get Famous
Cass R. Sunstein Considers the Factors and Trends That Lead to Literary Recognition
A More Imperfect Union: How Differing National Visions Divided the North and the South
Alan Taylor on the Fragile Facade of Republicanism in 19th Century America
Kevin Kwan on His Love of Classics (Even if He’s Still Never Read Middlemarch)
The Author of “Lies and Weddings” Recommends Evelyn Waugh and Alan Hollinghurst
Drifters, Searchers and Observers: In Praise of Quietly Unlikable Women
Mesha Maren on the Sisters of Longing Who Inspire Her Work
Jessie Gaynor on Rereading The Corrections While Navigating Her Mother’s Parkinson’s
“The book is the same every time, but I am different, so what it offers me is different.”
“Splintered beyond recognition.” Yogita Goyal on the Difficulty of Categorizing Contemporary African American Literature
From “The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary African American Literature”
R.O. Kwon on Writing Her Way Into a Book’s Most Truthful Version
Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of “Exhibit”
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