Views
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Short-story cycles are often marginalized because they are seen as apprentice works.
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Seeing as I’ve never enjoyed reading travel essays, I am bewildered and conflicted now that I’ve ended up writing one.
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Why did I sign up for NaNoWriMo? I'm actually cheating a little bit.
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Some of the most memorable and celebrated narrators in literary fiction—from J. D. Salinger’s Holden Caulfield to Sandra Cisneros’s Esperanza Cordero—aren’t even old enough to vote. But we listen.
Interviews
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According to Linda McCarriston, poetry exists for reasons beyond displays of linguistic or lyrical talent.
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I expected to feel a certain level of discomfort when I began to read Lamb...
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Last year, Levin published his ambitious 1,030-page debut novel The Instructions, which spans four days in the life of a brilliant ten-year-old protagonist, Gurion Maccabee, who may or may not be the Messiah.
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When author, playwright, and poet M. G. Stephens was fifteen years old, he had a chance encounter with Thelonious Monk that would change his life forever.
Reviews
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Composed of various excursions into Peter Pan, it extends J. M. Barrie’s characters and comments on the whole enterprise, expanding the story...
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Imposed order diminishes the rich, primitive, chaotic experience of being alive.
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Once he has his subject in his grasp, he is able to pick at marble until it becomes art.
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This cycling of perspectives allows the reader to learn about the characters with surprising intimacy—certain details become much clearer when there is only one person in the proverbial room.
Blog Posts
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