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...moreAlisson Wood discusses her debut memoir, BEING LOLITA.
...moreLeah Hampton discusses her debut collection, F*CKFACE AND OTHER STORIES.
...moreSecrets are expectations passed down over silent years.
...moreAlways, when my father spoke to me in words I could not understand, my guilt spoke back.
...moreSadie Dupuis discusses her debut collection, MOUTHGUARD.
...more“I want to always fight for art, not against it.”
...moreRuth Baumann discusses her debut poetry collection, PARSE.
...moreMonica Prince discusses writing, advocacy, and the art of the choreopoem.
...moreRachel Heng discusses her debut novel, Suicide Club, the book’s genesis, her writing and reading life, and her thoughts on “wellness.”
...moreMorgan Jerkins discusses This Will Be My Undoing, getting her start on the Internet, and why her collection of linked personal essays isn’t just another Millennial read.
...moreThe pressure to prove ourselves can have a distorting effect, causing us to doubt our instincts in favor of following others we perceive to be experts or “genuine.”
...moreJess Arndt discusses her debut story collection Large Animals, accepting love from other people, human bodies, and fear of the written word.
...moreWe’ll be open as long as the National Endowment for the Arts is.
...moreWhen a writer has said all that he or she has to say, or as much as possible before mortality intercedes, the body of work remains incomplete no matter the size of the output. The taunt persists: That’s it? At the New York Times, Roger Rosenblatt bemoans the haunting presence of the writer’s oeuvre.
...moreComedian Sara Benincasa opens up about her latest book Real Artists Have Day Jobs, adjusting to success, Venn-diagramming love, and the loss of Morley Safer.
...moreWhat is a career, and how does it define us?
...moreRainbow Rowell talks about her new novel, Landline, the writing advice she refuses to follow, and young adult fiction.
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