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    By Jon Fosse  May 13, 2024

    Reading Radically: A Reading List of the 1960s and 70s Protest Movements to Understand Activism Today

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    By Jessica Shattuck  May 13, 2024

    Continual Self-Revision: Bee Sacks on Coming Out As a Nonbinary Author

    “I have become a text that revises themself, that will revise themself every day, every day until the last day.”

     
    By Bee Sacks  May 13, 2024

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    By Madeleine Orr  May 13, 2024

    Jennifer Leigh Selig on Deep Memoir

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    Colson Whitehead has withdrawn as a 2024 commencement speaker. Who will be next?
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    One great short story to read today:
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    One great short story to read today:
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    Alice McDermott’s Writing Mantra:
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    Lolita is Nabokov: On the Parallel Histories of the Writer and His Most Famous Character

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    Lolita is Nabokov: On the Parallel Histories of the Writer and His Most Famous Character
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