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  1. 10 hours ago

    "Fictional maps are a visual trace of the ridiculous, undignified passion that we pour into worlds that we know aren’t real." Lev Grossman on the perennial appeal of mapping the fantastical.

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  2. 11 hours ago

    “I want to understand, I want to believe, that it’s possible to be a good person, a really good person, who makes a mistake.” Jeannie Vanasco on writing the character of her abuser.

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  3. 12 hours ago

    "I wanted a novel to hold these characters thoroughly and, most importantly, on their own terms." Ocean Vuong on the books he needed to write his novel.

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  4. 13 hours ago

    "Writing, like play, is an exercise of the imagination, and as such an exercise of desire that, Carson writes, teaches us 'something about edges.'"

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  5. 14 hours ago

    "My father felt oblique to me, impenetrable, no less so after his death, so I molded his absence into the shape of the heroes I knew."

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  6. 15 hours ago

    "'The Topeka School' begs the question: is it still autofiction if you are inhabiting voices other than your own?"

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  7. 16 hours ago

    "Is it racist to vote for a candidate whose campaign and policy platform seek to maintain or exacerbate existing racial disparities, while developing new ones? The answer to that question is, 'Hell yeah.'”

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  8. 17 hours ago

    "I wanted to make big sprawling jungles but Mr. Hills was saying I ought to be growing little bonsai trees."

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  9. 18 hours ago

    "The literature which does endure is never typical, never couched in the fits-all language of the social space, but that which defies it." Karl Ove Knausgaard on Jon Fosse (just in time for Nobel season).

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  10. Oct 4

    "The history of the Petry archive is a particularly painful reminder of the many ways... in which black women writers’ archives are scarce."

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  11. Oct 4

    "Once you’ve had enough practice at sitting still, you learn to care and not to care."

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  12. Oct 4

    Don't—and we can't stress this enough—@ us.

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  13. Oct 4

    "If we accept a factual reality (that we are destroying the planet), but are unable to believe it, we are no better than those who deny the existence of human-caused climate change."

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  14. Oct 4

    "A hashtag affirms that a communication channel is open, that being heard is possible..."

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  15. Oct 4

    Step one: surrender all expectations.

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  16. Oct 4

    "When Ed Markey’s committee realized that hearings alone weren’t changing the political dynamic, they took a more provocative step. They wrote a bill of their own." on how close we came in 2009 to making a regulatory difference.

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  17. Oct 4

    "When I found out the Unabomber had spent five years at the university where I now taught, I started to wonder what I might have done if he had been my student."

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  18. Oct 4

    "We have a terrible fear that if we stop for a moment we will miss something. The exact opposite is true."

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  19. Oct 4

    On the curious case of Ann Petry.

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  20. Oct 4

    "There is no way for this not to be a throwdown." , Susan Sontag superfan, offers a (surely controversial) ranking of her work.

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