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2017
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Mapping the (striking lack of) accessibility of the world’s metro lines. The remarkable patience of the Staten Island bat watchers. On the bizarre 200-year disappearance and reemergence of Vivaldi. Hey…
What Appears to Be Fiction: A Conversation with Nicole Krauss
Nicole Krauss discusses her new novel Forest Dark, provoking questions about reality with her work, and trusting readers to think for themselves.
Notable Twin Cities: 9/24–9/30
Literary events and readings in and around the Twin Cities this week!
What to Read When It’s Time for Sports
Just a "heads up" (as they say in the sports world): this isn't your average sports list.
Imagination Is Like Grace: Meghan O’Rourke’s Sun in Days
A poem doesn’t bring the dead back to life, but a memory has a touch of immortality: it’s a sort of recompense—forever isn’t exactly a lie, even if it’s not completely true.
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Great news! We can look inside (maybe) Jules Verne’s time capsule. Snopes is the true unsung hero of our age. The bizarre case of New Zealand’s Exploding pants. Fill your…
“The Book I Said I Would Never Write”: Talking with Karolina Ramqvist
Karolina Ramqvist discusses The White City, her first novel to be translated to English, and the idea of a writer's persona out in the world versus a just being a writer, writing.
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #102: Max Winter
Winter’s writing seems effortless. It’s sad, enthralling, at times hilarious stuff.