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Many Roads to Worship
Erik Reece, author of Utopia Drive: A Road Trip Through America’s Most Radical Idea, writes a lively review of Thomas More’s 1516 novel, Utopia, for FSG’s Work in Progress. More’s Utopians “revere religious tolerance above all else…in keeping with the…
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Poets in Place
Poet Ange Mlinko responds to a challenge from FSG’s Works in Progress series, to “tackle a question—or invent a new one—that lies within [Rilke’s] Letters to a Young Poet.” Mlinko muses on poets and places: do writers of beautiful lines…
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Vonnegut in the House of Magic
Asked years later why he had chosen to write science fiction in his early days, Kurt replied “There was no avoiding it, since the General Electric Company WAS science fiction.” Over at Work in Progress, Ginger Strand shows us how…
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Double Deja Vu
Here’s a mouthful: Catherine Lacey has written a story, about a woman named Catherine Lacey, who’s writing a story about Etgar Keret, who’s just written a story about a man named after himself. Her piece, and its inevitable outcome, are over…