Essays
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Essays
Remembering John Updike
Roxana Robinson
The author of Sparta looks back at one of her literary mentors.
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EssaysLines of Resistance
A Week After 11/9
Anne Landsman
In 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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Essays
On Lydia Davis
Roxana Robinson
The author of Sparta reflects on a master of the short story form.
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EssaysThe Story of the Book
The Influence of Journalism in Fiction
Elliot Ackerman
Fallujah, 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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Essays
Do Women Write "Tosh"?
Roxana Robinson
The author of Sparta responds to V. S. Naipaul.
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EssaysSyntax/Synapse Essays
Fires in the Brain: Consciousness and Creation
Jeffery Renard Allen
I 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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EssaysLines of Resistance
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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Essays
So You Want to Start Your own Micro-press?
Kevin Sampsell
I 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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EssaysThe Story of the Book
Writing to Destroy Memory
Claudia Kasper
In 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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EssaysThe Story of the Book
Five Surprising Influences on You Will Know Me
Megan Abbott
We 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...