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A Week After 11/9
Anne LandsmanIn this essay, novelist Anne Landsman talks about growing up during South Africa’s apartheid, how her Jewish parents quietly fought xenophobia...
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On Lydia Davis
Roxana RobinsonThe author of Sparta reflects on a master of the short story form.
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The Influence of Journalism in Fiction
Elliot AckermanFallujah, Aleppo, Gaziantep. These are all cities that we hear about in the news, but we don’t think about the stories contained within them
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Do Women Write "Tosh"?
Roxana RobinsonThe author of Sparta responds to V. S. Naipaul.
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Fires in the Brain: Consciousness and Creation
Jeffery Renard AllenI was twelve years old in 1975 when I first heard the beautiful and haunting Michael Murphy song “Wild Fire,” which is about a ghost woman...
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The Donald = The Silvio?
Dr. Stan BurnettStan Burnett can offer quite a bit of insight into the life and times of former Prime Minister of Italy Silvio Berlusconi because his career...
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So You Want to Start Your own Micro-press?
Kevin SampsellI started my micro-press, Future Tense Books, back in 1990 and I honestly had no idea what I was doing for the first few years
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Writing to Destroy Memory
Claudia KasperIn this post, Claudia Casper, author of the new book The Mercy Journals, shares how General Roméo Dallaire, the Canadian general who...
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Five Surprising Influences on You Will Know Me
Megan AbbottWe asked Megan Abbott to talk about some of the influences behind her new hit book You Will Know Me. Here she discusses how a television...
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Escaping the Prison of Realism
Darryl PinckneyI was surprised in Elizabeth Hardwick’s writing class at Barnard when she told us that the mystery of Jay Gatsby was that he was Jewish.