‘Bad Stories’: The Millions Interviews Steve Almond
The ache is how we know we’re alive. And when we’re telling good stories, the ache is how you know you’re not alone in this life.
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The Millions Top 10
Captain Stubing from ‘The Love Boat,’ My Literary Nemesis
There was no preprogrammed solution to my dilemma: My novel reviews have been hijacked by a seemingly nice but title-hacking actor from the ’70.
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Our Florida, Hers and Mine
It’s often said that Florida is like Eden. Yet it’s rarely noted that eventually the humans fucked up and got expelled from the garden.
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Summer Playlist: Beyond the Cyclical
With time, you can find your star’s brilliance, settle down and straighten the wheel; you can dig deeper for the patience you didn’t have before.
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My Son, the Nonreader
Perhaps I should have tried to make sure it didn’t end up on that inevitable list we sons compose of our shortcomings in our father’s eyes.
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Why Don’t Female Spies Grow Up? Women in Contemporary Spy Literature
This idea that “women are the victims, never in control” reverberates throughout contemporary spy fiction; those who do exist are femme fatales—or martyred.
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Seven Great Reads for the 2018 FIFA World Cup
In this selection of the best books about soccer, authors stand in awe and terror of what soccer does to them, their communities, and entire continents.
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Apply Aesthetic Pressure to the Language: An Interview with Paul Harding
I certainly worried, wondering whether I could pull it off. But I either had to write a second book or disappear. Much better, I thought, to get on with it.
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