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Eden Lost: Nin Andrews on the Pains and Rewards of Writing a Memoir About Her Father

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On the Challenge of Writing a Sequel to a Twenty-Year-Old Novel

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“A Conflicted, Imperfect Love.” Jesmyn Ward on William Faulkner’s <em>As I Lay Dying</em>

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