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Videos
Why We Read: Mary Gaitskill
Mary Gaitskill is the author of the story collections Bad Behavior, Because They Wanted To (nominated for...
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Videos
Why We Read: E. L. Doctorow
E. L. Doctorow’s works of fiction include Homer & Langley, The March, Billy Bathgate, Ragtime, the Book of...
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VideosWhy We Read
Why We Read: Francine Prose
Francine Prose is the author of twenty-one works of fiction, including Mister Monkey; the New York Times bestseller Lovers...
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Fiction, Essays & More
On Lydia Davis
Roxana Robinson
The author of Sparta reflects on a master of the short story form.
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Fiction, Essays & MoreThe 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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Book RecsThe Book That Made Me a Reader
Pride and Prejudice
Elizabeth Nunez
I grew up in colonial Trinidad, my education similar to that of a British public school, excellent, but clearly intended to reinforce the superiority...
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Fiction, Essays & More
Do Women Write "Tosh"?
Roxana Robinson
The author of Sparta responds to V. S. Naipaul.
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Fiction, Essays & MoreSyntax/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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Fiction, Essays & MoreLines 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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Fiction, Essays & MoreThe Model Short Story
On "An Unwritten Novel" by Virginia Woolf
Kristopher Jansma
I teach two hours from where I live, so I spend a lot of time writing on the bus. It’s quiet and the route is scenic––once we get through North Jersey
