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Guia Cortassa
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From Reading to Reading
Over at The Millions, Alex Lockwood shares what he learned from reading and readings during his first American book tour: I packed The Wave in the Mind into my luggage as I set out from Britain for North America. Not…
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The Queer History of Children Books
Over at the Los Angeles Review of Books, Kelly Blewett retraces a fragment of the long-needed queer history of children books: Nordstrom was also queer. Although it seems she rarely mixed her private life with her professional one, a number…
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Cruel Summers
We both survived; we both grew up and made lives for ourselves. But I still can’t bear to think about that summer. We could have died so many times. Over at the Los Angeles Review of Books, Briallen Hopper recalls…
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A Good Mom, a Progressive Mom, a Cool Mom
At Catapult, Rachel Klein shares her experience as a mother of a transitioning child: I was worried, like most people are at their core, about myself. I was not being a “good mom,” a “progressive mom,” a “cool mom”; I…
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Portman’s Pen Pals
Apparently, Jonathan Safran Foer wasn’t the only one exchanging emails with Natalie Portman. At The Millions, Jacob Lambert shares excerpts from the supposed epistolary relationship between the actress and no less than American author Cormac McCarthy.
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The Witch Hunt
In this interview we talk about—well, Juliet especially comes correct about mental health and poetry and honesty and life in West Virginia and why she writes and how terrifying her trailers were for the book and teaching while being bad…
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Angry Writers
My point is that she’s a bit of a paradox. Over at McSweeney’s, Amy Watkins explains why George Eliot has every right to be really, really upset.
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Rooting for Folk Tales
But the question that’s been on my mind for a while now is how and why we’ve come to recognize certain tales as perennial (and universal) and have relegated others to complete obscurity. Or, to be more exact, how we’ve…
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Fiction Fitness
In Palmetto Landing, the men’s bodies existed in inverse proportion to those of their wives. Ahead of the publication of her much anticipated collection Difficult Women, out in January 2017, you can read Roxane Gay’s new short story “Group Fitness” over at Oxford…
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The Long and Winding Road
The stories are woven together with my life and my life moved across the globe as I wrote, so the stories too took that long journey. My map of becoming a writer goes all the way around the world. At…
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A Tough Elevator Pitch
HELLO. I was hoping I would run into you on the elevator today. Here, this scene would be perfect for you: A young man takes an orange from the bowl in the kitchen. He sits on the couch in the…
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In Her Country
Each story was inspired by anything from a personal memory or a family anecdote to a news item or something I had heard happen to someone else. Or sometimes it was a formal challenge in combination with those things: for…