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Lorrie Moore on Wisconsin and Steven Avery

Lorrie Moore writes an extensive ode to her weird home state of Wisconsin, and its newest national sensation, the Netflix documentary series Making a Murderer. The well-acclaimed Wisconsin author’s viewpoint on…

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The Translator of Great Male Novelists™

For VICE’s Broadly, Alicia Kennedy interviews Natasha Wimmer, Spanish translator extraordinaire, on her life as a translator of Great Male Novelists™ like Roberto Bolaño, Mario Vargas Llosa, and most recently Álvaro Enrigue.…

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Aaron Sorkin’s Mockingbird

In an announcement that is equal parts completely expected and narrow-eyes-tilted-head inducing, Aaron Sorkin will adapt Harper Lee’s beloved classic To Kill a Mockingbird for the stage, to be directed by Barlett…

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Editions at Play

Editions at Play, the brainchild of Visual Editions publishers Anna Gerber and Britt Iverson and Google Creative Lab in Sydney, has launched, pushing the boundaries of books so far off…

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Black Memoir

Memoir, the offspring of the slave narrative, is not simply a form within the Black literary tradition; it has thoroughly shaped that tradition. With the release of smash hit Between…

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The Fractal Structure of Finnegans Wake

Some very intelligent scientists recently published a study showing Finnegans Wake—among other novels, from The Waves to 2666—to have a structure comparable to mathematical fractals, in which each fragment (here,…

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The Writing is the Ball

In an excerpt from Why We Write About Ourselves, National Book Award-winner James McBride writes about that question, among other things—the ethics of memoir writing, diversity in publishing, the necessity…

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Radical Empathy

Empathy is a radical act, particularly when you use it to connect with people who are very different from you. Loving others is wonderful, but caring for others is profound.…

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Pinsky’s DOS Days

Over at the New Yorker, James Reith discusses Mindwheel, a text adventure game written by US Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky back in the 80s. Once thought the future of fiction,…

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A Step Towards a Good Thing

We believe this is critical to our future: to publish the best books that appeal to readers everywhere, we need to have people from different backgrounds with different perspectives and…

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Boudreaux Books

For Lit Hub, Kerri Arsenault interviews Lee Boudreaux, editor at the newly-minted Little, Brown imprint Boudreaux Books, about the editing process, the publishing world, and the necessary evil of book…

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The Charismatic Loser

I think it would be a great time for men, basically, to go on vacation. Eileen Myles is interviewed by the New York Times, touching on poetry’s place in politics,…

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