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Sejal Shah on the Tricky Work of Giving Shape to an Essay Collection

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Wayne Koestenbaum Considers Incense, Irish Spring, and, Yes, Some Other Smells

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Marguerite Duras: Internet Essayist?

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By Damon Young  April 1, 2019
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Joy Williams’ Ecological Call to Arms Is As Urgent As Ever

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Kathryn Davis, T Kira Madden, and More Take the Lit Hub Questionnaire

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Contemporary Workplace Culture is Toxic… But Maybe Not Fatal?

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Brad Phillips: I Have Written Down the Worst of Me

By Brad Phillips  January 29, 2019
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On James Baldwin’s Dispatches from the Heart of the Civil Rights Movement

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Lorrie Moore: It’s Better to Write Than Be a Writer

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Teju Cole Reminds Us of Life Beyond Politics, and the Beauty of Art

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We Were Wrong About Gravity… What Do We Have Wrong Today?

By Chuck Klosterman  June 7, 2016
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The Therapist Who Saved My Life

By Ella Wilson  May 20, 2015
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Knausgaard on Masculinity, Excrement, and Quitting

By John Freeman  April 27, 2015
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Last Days Feeding Frenzy

By Russell Banks  April 22, 2015
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When Black Neighborhoods Disappear

By Angela Flournoy  April 21, 2015
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What Memoir Can Do That Poetry Can’t

By Tracy K. Smith  April 16, 2015
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SHIFTINESS: THE BORDER IN EIGHT CASES

By Julie Chinitz  April 15, 2015
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Where Do We Go from Here?: The Future of Fiction

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