American Public Libraries: A Visual History
Public libraries remain our country's greatest democratic institutions, but it took generations of work and social progress to get them to their current place as beacons to their communities.
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The Millions Top 10
Does Size Matter? A Conversation with Three Filmmakers
I am first and foremost a storyteller. Short films or feature-length films are just various sizes of a blank canvas.
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They Are Not Calling to You: Featured Poetry by Paige Ackerson-Kiely
A great second-person poem is narrated both toward us and past us, its words skimming off our shoulders but leaving marks.
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“A Novel” Reminder
Eliza Brooke for Vox explains why the seemingly obvious phrase "A Novel" still appears on book covers and spines today.
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Taking the Time: Christine Sneed in Conversation with Mandeliene Smith
I’m not a fast writer; I tend to let my stories marinate for a while. Sometimes I even put them away for a year or so, if I can’t see my way forward.
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In Praise of Urinal Lit
To write words on a bathroom wall and feel the relief of urination and proclamation at the same time—that is to really live.
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The Extraordinary Enigmatic: Kathryn Davis’s ‘The Silk Road’
Complaining about indeterminacy in a Kathryn Davis novel is like complaining about William Gass’s love of alliteration or Bob Dylan’s singing voice.
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Candlepin Bowling with Elizabeth McCracken
Elizabeth McCracken discusses her new novel, Bowlaway, with Ann Patchett in a new interview for Patchett's bookstore, Parnassus Books.
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