Holiday Catalog: Picks for Kids!
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Fiction, Essays & MoreThe Story of the Book
Supermarket Mittelschmerz
Max Winter
In this essay, author Max Winter (Exes) reflects on his mother’s career as a painter, why she inexplicably stopped painting when he was...
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Fiction, Essays & More
I Am a Knife
Roxane Gay
My husband is a hunter.I am a knife.Last deer season, he took me on a hunt with him. At four in the morning, he shook me awake
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Fiction, Essays & More
Death Be a Hot Fudge Sundae
Merrill Joan Gerber
Three babies were born to me in five years. It seemed, when I was young, the only worthwhile thing to do, making those sturdy, well-designed pieces...
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Fiction, Essays & MoreWhy Fiction Matters
The Invention of the Self Is Another Kind of Fiction
Krys Lee
Once there was a child who hid from her father. She imagined him with blades for hands, she saw herself as strung on a leash that he owned.
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Fiction, Essays & More
Appreciating Tillie Olsen
Katherine Arnoldi
On the publication of Tell Me a Riddle, Requa 1 and Other Works, Katherine Arnoldi reflects on the revered author, Tillie Olsen.
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Book RecsThe Book That Made Me a Reader
Christina Baker Kline on Laura Ingalls Wilder
Christina Baker Kline
I was six years old; we had recently moved to Maine from Tennessee, and my father read it aloud to my sister Cynthia and me, one chapter at a...
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Fiction, Essays & More
On Alice Munro
Roxana Robinson
Roxana Robinson, the author of such works as Sweetwater and Sparta, writes an appreciation of the masterful short story writer Alice Munro.
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Fiction, Essays & More
Hacia Teotitlán
Dagoberto Gilb
The last time Ramiro Areyzaga was in Mexico was so long ago it was more like a fairy tale. That was Coyoacán, which is Mexico City but which...
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Fiction, Essays & MoreThe Story of the Book
Four Surprising Influences on We Love You, Charlie Freeman
Kaitlyn Greenidge
We asked First Novel Prize finalist Kaitlyn Greenidge to talk about some of the unusual influences behind her fantastic novel We Love You, Charlie Freeman
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Fiction, Essays & More
Ha Jin on Literature and Evil
Ha Jin
At the 2012 AWP conference, The Center for Fiction hosted a panel Literature and Evil with Ha Jin, Marilynne Robinson and Paul Harding, moderated...
