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Tired of Today’s Tech: Writing Historical Fiction in a Technocratic American Present
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“Whatever!”: In Defense of Anachronism in Ancient Rome
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The Rest is History: Andrew Ridker on Writing About the Recent Past
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On the Historical Fiction That Lives in the Space Between History and Myth
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Great Women Through the Ages: A Historical Fiction Reading List
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We Are in a Golden Age of Historical Fiction for People of Color
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Amor Towles on Bringing a Historical Setting to Life
By Amor Towles
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Why You Shouldn’t Read Historical Fiction to Learn History
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Meg Waite Clayton on Finding New Ways to Tell Old Stories
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Lauren Groff on Blending Research and Imagination in Historical Fiction
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