Survival and Hope: Akwaeke Emezi’s You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
You Made A Fool organically makes the argument that friendships can be just as important and fulfilling as romantic relationships.
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Posts Tagged: Nora Ephron
The Resumes of Identity We Present to Strangers: A Conversation with Dolly Alderton
Dolly Alderton discusses her new novel, GHOSTS.
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What to Read When You Are Ready to Start Over
Melissa Radke shares a list of books to celebrate her memoir, Eat Cake. Be Brave.
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What to Read When You Want to Read Funny Women
Sometimes the truth hurts. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t have to hear it, and all the better if we can couch those painful truths amid laughter.
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Reading Other People’s Mail: Talking with Michelle Dean
Michelle Dean discusses Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion, literary legends, and the absence of Black writers from the narrative.
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The Truth About Lying
My gut is a red, fiery drum, a beacon of rosy light. My instinct to run is a bright radioactive pink arrow, a bloody blade. I was correct.
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You’ve Got Mail and the Internet of Ordinary People
You’ve Got Mail was one of the first movies to depict the Internet as it affects the lives of ordinary users.
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The Last Book I Loved: Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living In New York
But when my loneliness feels as vast—and capable of drowning me—as the sea, this book about self-destruction comforts me more than any self-help.
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The Rumpus Interview with Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Producer Jeff Sommerville, director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, and the cast of Me and Earl and the Dying Girl discuss their movie that went to Sundance and beyond.
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