Say You Were Gonna Make a Bomb: On Bud Smith’s ‘Teenager’
If you can’t suspend your disbelief on page one, Teenager warns, you’re going to have a bad time.
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The Millions Top 10
Ulysses: An Illustrated Edition
The Socratic Method: A Practitioner’s Handbook
The Penguin Modern Classics Book
When We Cease to Understand the World
The Morning Star: A Novel
Refuse to Be Done: How to Write and Rewrite a Novel in Three Drafts
How High We Go in the Dark: A Novel
Crossroads: A Novel (A Key to All Mythologies, 1)
Sea of Tranquility: A novel
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
The Magical and the Mundane: The Millions Interviews Alanna Schubach
"The person I am when reading or writing feels like a better person than who I am moment-to-moment in the everyday."
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Shelf Life: On the Stories Our Books Tell About Us
My bookshelves remind me of where I’ve been, who I am, and what it’s taken to get here.
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The Literary Afterlife of F.O. Matthiessen
Matthiessen has remained a force to contend with, even if only to react against his ideas and literary judgments.
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Always Present, Sometimes Deadly: The Millions Interviews Matt Bondurant
"Morally despicable people are often powerful agents of history, and I feel the historical novelist has some obligation to wrestle with this conundrum."
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Wage War Against Cliché: The Millions Interviews Isaac Butler
"I feel in some ways like Stanislavski himself taught me how to write a book about his ideas."
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How Being a Ghostwriter Has Shaped My Fiction
What you discover in one aspect of your work is bound to follow you into another.
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The William Trevor Reader: “Mr. McNamara”
The burden of the narrator's secret knowledge is implied before it is expressed.
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