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The Virtue of Slow Writers
The slow writer embraces the protracted and unpredictable timeline, seeing it not as fraught or frustrating but an opportunity for openness and discovery.
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Xochitl Gonzalez Wants to Reframe Art History
"The only reason I was interested in the story was to give Ana Mendieta agency."
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Dan Sinykin on Fiction, Scholarship, and Academic Twitter
"Academic Twitter is something of a compulsion for me. My wife hates it."
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At Long Last, a Translation Worthy of ‘Pedro Páramo’
The latest translation of 'Pedro Páramo' is a mystifying work, in the dual sense that it is confounding and that its language possesses an almost mystical quality.
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Tennis Lessons from David Foster Wallace
I was, and still am, the most reviled type of tennis player.
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“She Pierces the World”: Olga Ravn on Doris Lessing
"She's pissed off. I guess that's why a lot of people don't want to read her. But it gives a book intensity."
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Old Lesbian Love
The sexual objectification of the body, of our bodies, is less an insult these days and more of a goal.
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The French Cartoonist
Who Limned New York City
"While Paris is gray-blue, New York is very, very colorful."
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The Path Is No Path: On Not Becoming a Poet
What makes a poet a poet? There is of course no simple answer. You could argue that self-declaration is enough. You could also argue there must be a measure.
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How English Took Over the World
English has become not just the “language of Europe”—it has become the dominant lingua franca of the world.
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What’s Wrong with Me?
"We know that our health-care system is failing people who live with chronic pain and illness. I know because it's failing me."
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Language That Lives: How to Translate an Italian Master
Far from being ornamental, wordplay serves a very specific function in 'Verdigris.'
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Leslie Jamison Serves the ‘God of Complexity’
"My early personal writing leaned so far towards certain kinds of self-recrimination that I had to learn how to lean away from it."
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The Collaborative Alchemy of W.G. Sebald’s Photographs
By rephotographing the material Sebald brought to him, Michael Brandon-Jones played a critical role in helping the writer achieve a tonal consistency between text and image.
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Kelly Link’s Romantic Imagination
Though Link’s stories often keep closer bedfellows with Karen Russell and Aimee Bender, her novel is pulpier and more bathetic, in some ways a piece of straight fantasy.
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Pressure-and-Release: Writing Shanghai’s Rooftoppers
I remember crying the day I made a decision about his character: It seemed clear what needed to happen.
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Debra Magpie Earling Is Reclaiming Native Women’s Agency
"All my stories have something to do with women who refuse to be pigeonholed or enslaved by men in any way."
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