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Dwyer Murphy on How to Write About a City
“You’re going to want to get out and walk around.”
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Dwyer Murphy
| August 5, 2022
An Honest Living
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We Need to Reckon with the Rot at the Core of Publishing
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Elaine Castillo
| July 26, 2022
How Final Fantasy VII Taught Me to Write
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Jamil Jan Kochai
| July 20, 2022
Burning and Bright: 7 Great Novels About Young Female Friendships
Sarah Priscus on the Intimate Bonds Between Young Women
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Sarah Priscus
| July 15, 2022
Small Rebellions: Erika L. Sánchez on Writing the Characters She Wanted to Read
”I rarely found portrayals of anyone like me—bookish and poor and surly and Brown—in the art that I enjoyed.”
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Erika L. Sánchez
| July 14, 2022
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Clare Pooley
| June 27, 2022
How Russia Became an Empire
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Keith Gessen Explores the Often-Disturbing Biographies of Great Children's Book Authors
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Keith Gessen
| June 7, 2022
Imagining More: Women Writing Worlds in Crisis
Erin Swan on Fiction That Dares to Ask, “What If?”
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Erin Swan
| June 1, 2022
From Pandemics to Nuclear Power: Why People Why People Take the Risks They Do
Vaclav Smil on the Strange Choices We Make
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Vaclav Smil
| May 11, 2022
The Foundations of Black Feminism and Womanism: A Reading List
Negesti Kaudo Lists Some Pillars of Womanist Writing
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Negesti Kaudo
| April 29, 2022
Danica Roem on Why She Decided to Run for Office
“Life can change in an instant.”
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Danica Roem
| April 27, 2022
Writing Climate Fiction Showed Me That a Different Life is Possible
Rebecca Scherm on Looking a Terrifying Future in the Face
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Rebecca Scherm
| April 19, 2022
How to Fictionalize New Technology Even As It’s Constantly Changing
Claire Stanford on a Novelist's Approach to Tech
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Claire Stanford
| April 19, 2022
The Many Wars Within the Last Great War
Richard Overy on the Second World War Made and the Fall of Global Empires
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Richard Overy
| April 8, 2022
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"Not much happens In fact there is much in the text that is not made…"