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Great Fiction is a Force for Peace
Roxana RobinsonAn archaeologist friend told me recently about the discovery of an oral tradition stretching back for 10,000 years. They were stories told by...
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In Praise of Edith Wharton
Roxana RobinsonA look at the classic author by Roxana Robinson.
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The Drip Drip Drip of Another Consciousness
Jane SmileyLast night, I dreamed about my novel Ten Days In the Hills, not one of my best received, but certainly one that I enjoyed writing.
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Morning After
Roxana RobinsonIn a new essay, author Roxana Robinson (Sparta, Cost) reflects on her experiences campaigning for the Democratic Party in...
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Abounding and Superabounding
Elizabeth McKenzieIt had been a small reading, the kind one expects of course, and I knew everyone who attended, except for one man who was neither an old friend...
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In Response to Jonathan Franzen's New Yorker piece on Edith Wharton
Roxana Robinson“Jonathan Franzen (in his essay in The New Yorker, “A Critic at Large”) addresses “the problem of sympathy” for Edith Wharton
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What Else Would a Young Film Star Wear?
Maggie O'FarrellIn this essay, Maggie O’Farrell, author of This Must Be the Place, writes about how an unforgettable object found its way into her fiction.
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A Fiction for the Future
Erik HoelAt first it happened slowly, then all at once. We are now living in a world that would have been considered science fiction to any twentieth-century novelist.
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Remembering Robert Stone
Roxana Robinson“When I first read Robert Stone’s work I was struck by the beauty of the sentences. That’s the way a writer reads, listening to cadence...
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The Story of My Life (and Yours)
Tiphanie YaniqueAt the New School, where I am a professor, I teach a literature seminar called Girls: Narratives of the Girl Child. Every text we read features a girl.