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Kyle Williams
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Exhausted, Frustrated, Probably Depressed
The housewife is to the novelist what the still life is to the painter. For the Slate Book Review, Laura Miller writes a piece exploring the history and resurgence of a beloved literary archetype: the housewife, often made profound by great…
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What If I Have No Person?
The Guardian’s Hermione Hoby interviews Joyce Carol Oates about her upcoming novel, The Man Without a Shadow, also touching on everything from her impossible back catalog to her Twitter we all love to hate.
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President Obama, Literary Critic
At the New York Review of Books, Edward Mendelson shares with us part of a letter written by a young man who would eventually become President Obama, a small piece of literary criticism written in earnest to help his then-girlfriend unpack…
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The Middle East in Writing
Increasingly, a writer needs an access point, a micro-focus, a close-up lens—even a gimmick: one small story through which larger historical truths can be elucidated anew. For the Los Angeles Review of Books, N.S. Morris writes about how journalism inform stories…
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Old Books for Cold Weather
Lit Hub has been sharing excerpts of classic favorites to help weather the brutal cold—or, well, the mild cold, as is the case here in New York. Cozy up with the quiet desperation and harsh weather of James Joyce’s “The Dead,” Mary…
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Kind, and Very Funny
For TriQuarterly, Cara Suglich interviews George Saunders, nationally-recognized literary great and funny person. Saunders shares his methods, his insights on what makes stories work, and some fantastic jokes.
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The Title Contains a Question
Blackness in the white imagination has nothing to do with black people. The Guardian’s Kate Kellaway interviews Claudia Rankine on the writing of Citizen, some of her other work, and her thoughts on racism—and of course, Rankine, as always, is…
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Visiting Kafka
Over at the New York Times, David Farley writes about Prague and its connections to Kafka, from the 36-foot high Kafka head made of forty-two rotating chrome plates to the various buildings that lay claim to his residence—all the hotspots for the…
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Infinite Cover Redesigns
The Millions shows us the new fan-designed cover for the 20th anniversary edition of David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest, as well as a short and sweet interview with Wallace’s editor and Little, Brown CEO Michael Pietsch.
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Opened and Raw
The violence enters together with the beauty. Over at Electric Literature, Claire Schwartz writes about the power of recitation from memory, and about entering the poetry of Ai through memorization and rhythm and never leaving, despite the discomfort, the burning.
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Yes, There Were Drinks
Lit Hub sat down with the founders of Emily Books, Emily Gould and Ruth Curry, to talk about their decision to start their new imprint, from drinks at Palomas to their first book, Jade Sharma’s Problems.
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Our Literary Footpaths
Over at The Toast, Rebecca Turkewitz writes about the intersections between literary geography and the real, from Joyce’s Dublin and Tolkien’s Middle Europe to Faulkner’s Mississippi and Munro’s Ontario—how we explore these places by walking through pages, and how they…