Prestige Comics: On the Penguin Classics Marvel Collection
The idea that a citadel of bookishness has fallen to this siege of adolescent fantasia could easily take on outsize importance.
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The Millions Top 10
Ulysses: An Illustrated Edition
The Socratic Method: A Practitioner’s Handbook
When We Cease to Understand the World
The Penguin Modern Classics Book
The Morning Star: A Novel
Refuse to Be Done: How to Write and Rewrite a Novel in Three Drafts
These Precious Days: Essays
Crossroads: A Novel (A Key to All Mythologies, 1)
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
How High We Go in the Dark: A Novel
Risk and Craft Are Inseparable: Kristen Arnett, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, and Shelly Oria in Conversation
"There must be something at stake, shared between the writer and the reader."
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Ovid’s Exilic Imagination
"I suggest that Ovid was not simply exiled, but that he also exiled himself."
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The William Trevor Reader: “A Complicated Nature”
Often the simplest and most elegant approach to a story is to do as Trevor does (along with O’Connor, Cheever, Yates, Malamud, and all the greats of mid-century short story craft), which is give the reader the vital information right at the beginning.
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The Ecstatic Excess of Translation: The Millions Interviews Soje
"Every translated word I put down is filtered through me, so there’s no word that is not mine. But there’s still this sense of communal ecstasy."
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The Practice of Paying Attention: The Millions Interviews Beebe Bahrami
"The process of letting go of things you don’t need—that's a pilgrimage."
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I Write to Find Out: The Millions Interviews Marie Myung-Ok Lee
"I believe the work I do both in fiction and nonfiction is to make the experiences of Asian Americans legible."
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The Millions Top Ten: April 2022
Our list's true newcomers are Matt Bell and Sequoia Nagamatsu, who join in the sixth and tenth positions for 'Refuse to Be Done' and 'How High We Go in the Dark,' respectively.
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Origin Stories: On the Value of Comics
The world is vast and I'm unsure of how it works, but this comic is mine, and that's enough.
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