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On Publishers Big and Small

At the Atlantic, Nathan Scott McNamara provides an optimistic view of the symbiotic relationship between massive corporate publishers and small indie houses. Profiling energetic presses like Graywolf, Coffee House, Two Dollar Radio,…

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Mommy Dearest

We have an unfortunate tendency to let motherhood eclipse all aspects of a person’s identity—and then to turn around and call motherhood a faulty aspiration. Luckily there are moms like Antonia Malchik who write…

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Three Flashes of God

The child wanted to name the rabbit Actually, and could not be dissuaded from this. For its final Flash Friday column, curated by Tin House, the Guardian shares three new excerpts from Joy…

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The Rumpus Interview with Danniel Schoonebeek

Danniel Schoonebeek discusses living a quiet life in the Catskills, the importance of travel, partying in the woods with poets, and how capitalism forces people to be cruel to each other.

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Douse, Rattle, and Roll

There’s a treasure trove of poetry recommendations at Tin House’s Open Bar. Jessica Lakritz’s Sex on Sundaze is alive: she writes her lines on human bodies. One Tin House staff member declares,…

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Berliners

I think that everyone writes for an ideal reader. Mine are friends in my heads, some of whom are no longer with me, with us. Darryl Pinckney, author of Black…

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A Brief History of Pandering

Erasing women writers like Woolson carries immense implications. It creates an environment ripe for the continued marginalization and silencing of women’s voices today.

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The New and Improved Romie Futch by Julia Elliott

Elizabeth Byrne reviews The New and Improved Romie Futch by Julia Elliott today in Rumpus Books.

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The Poetry of Liu Xia

Liu Xia’s burden has become too heavy. Her heart is beginning to fail. In isolation, she can only stare at a tree through her window, a tree that a bird…

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Baxter’s Informal Decalogue

For Tin House, Susan Tacent interviews Charles Baxter. The two discuss topics ranging from how to write “funny,” to the process that went into writing Baxter’s most recent collection There’s Something I…

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This Week in Short Fiction

Earlier this month, Steven Millhauser released Voices in the Night, a new collection of short stories. On Tuesday, the Boston Globe described the towns of many of the stories in…

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This Week in Short Fiction: A Guide to AWP

It’s that time of year again, where writers young and old, from all corners of the country, come to congregate in one gigantic, frenetic, neurotic, alcohol-infused crowd, in a couple…

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