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Literature
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Days of the Jackal
How Andrew Wylie turned serious literature into big business.
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Poets in the Machine
Why does the literary world still hold online writing at arm’s length?
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Confessions of a Viral AI Writer
“Despite my success with AI-generated stories, I’m not sure they are good for writers—or writing itself.”
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How Literary Translation Can Shift the Tides of Power
“I am just one parent. What if more parents read translated books with their children?”
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Misdirectives
“A public high school teacher asks why the wrong things cause a fuss in schools.”
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The Terrifying Car Crash That Inspired a Masterpiece
“Fifty years ago, a Kansas family picked up a hitchhiker on their way to Iowa. What happened on that drive became part of literary history.”
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‘The Ways of Fiction Are Devious Indeed’
Sands Hall, a playwright and daughter of author Oakley Hall, digs into the work of Wallace Stegner — specifically his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Angle of Repose, which is based on the life of Mary Hallock Foote. “[W]e often fold in the real with the invented,” writes Hall, but when does inspiration become plagiarism? Yet in […]
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On Writing: An Abecedarian
“To be inside the cathedral of a language is to be inside a particular view of the world.”
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We Need to Translate More Armenian Literature
“We need them to assert our very existence.”