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The Wide Open (And Increasingly Traveled) Road

For The Kenyon Review “Credo” series, Megan Mayhew Bergman offers some thoughts on “socially-conscious writing”: I’m not sure if it was becoming a mother, or publishing my first book—because these events…

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Non-Fiction for the Young

Considering “the booming market for young adult novels,” Alexandra Alter writes for the New York Times about how non-fiction writers are re-working their titles “to make them palatable for younger…

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Ebola is the Ku Klux Klan of Paper Cuts

At the New Yorker, Teju Cole mocks CNN’s recent discussion, framed around the question, “Ebola: The ISIS of Biological Agents.”

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Will Pynchon Surface?

With Inherent Vice the centerpiece of the New York Film Festival, Logan Hill sits down with the director, Paul Thomas Anderson, for the New York Times. He seems particularly eager…

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On Getting Bumped

Edan Lepucki and Stephan Eirik Clark talk to BuzzFeed Books about how their successes have been affected by the “Colbert Bump.”

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The Revelations of Marilynne Robinson

Wyatt Mason profiles Marilynne Robinson for the New York Times Magazine, asking her—among other things—“what do you think people should be talking about more?”

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The Fifty-Year-Old Startup

In a conversation with Joe Fassler at Salon, Robert Silvers, “co-editor or editor for every issue” of the New York Review of Books, recalls how the publication came to be…

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“Clumsy, Obscure, Unpleasant to Read”

At The Chronicle of Higher Education, Steven Pinker, a professor of psychology at Harvard University, wonders why so much academic writing is—well—bad.

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Literature’s Smiles

For Electric Literature, noting that character shrugs and smiles are usually crutches in fiction, Matt Bell analyzes Cormac McCarthy’s use of smiles in Outer Dark, providing “a good reminder that…

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Henry James & The Great YA Debate

Responding to the ongoing debate about whether or not American literature is saturated with young adult fiction (and if adults should read these novels), Christopher Beha, in the New Yorker,…

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A Teen’s Perspective

The Los Angeles Review of Books has posted “an honest review from a teen’s perspective” about The Fault in Our Stars.

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PEN’s Public Programs

The PEN American Center has a new season of Public Programs, addressing, according the Huffington Post, questions about the place of literature today, “the responsibility of art-making,” and many others.…

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