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How to Visit the Graves of 75 Famous Writers

How to Visit the Graves of 75 Famous Writers

From crypts to hillsides to the Schomburg Center

By Emily Temple | March 26, 2018

A Visual Tour of 35 Literary Bars and Cafés from Around the World

A Visual Tour of 35 Literary Bars and Cafés from Around the World

Drink Where Your Favorite Writers Once Drank

By Emily Temple | February 9, 2018

Surviving 2017 with Borges: On the Art of Wonder and Wonder of Art

Surviving 2017 with Borges: On the Art of Wonder and Wonder of Art

Considering Good, Evil, Nazis, and All the What-Ifs That Make a Life

By Gabrielle Bellot | January 10, 2018

On the Literary Wheelings and Dealings of Ulysses S. Grant and Mark Twain

On the Literary Wheelings and Dealings of Ulysses S. Grant and Mark Twain

The World of Publishing, Unchanged for 150 Years

By Ron Chernow | October 17, 2017

Mark Twain, Cocaine Kingpin?

Mark Twain, Cocaine Kingpin?

"I never was great in matters of detail"

By Alan Pell Crawford | October 16, 2017

14 Classic Works of Literature Hated By Famous Authors

14 Classic Works of Literature Hated By Famous Authors

"I got a little bored after a time. I mean, the road seemed to be awfully long."

By Emily Temple | October 16, 2017

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Did Mark Twain Anticipate the Nazis?

By Arvind Dilawar | September 22, 2017

15 Famous Writers on the Perils of a Formal Education

By Emily Temple | August 29, 2017

The Most Anthologized Essays of the Last 25 Years

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The Time Murakami Met Carver (and Other Literary Meet-Cutes)

The Time Murakami Met Carver (and Other Literary Meet-Cutes)

Famous Writers in the Wild, Talking to Each Other

By Emily Temple | July 25, 2017

So You've Decided to Write: When to Drown Your Darlings

So You've Decided to Write: When to Drown Your Darlings

Part Two in Terry McDonell's Summer Series on How to Be a Writer

By Terry McDonell | July 12, 2017

Seeing Your Hometown Through the Fresh Eyes of Fiction

Seeing Your Hometown Through the Fresh Eyes of Fiction

An Interview with Melissa Scholes Young

By Chelsea Horne | June 30, 2017

Is <em>Watchmen</em> Coming to TV?

Is Watchmen Coming to TV?

And Other Literary Film and TV News From This Week

By Emily Temple | June 23, 2017

Forrest Trump: On the Donald's Many Cameos in American Literature

Forrest Trump: On the Donald's Many Cameos in American Literature

Susan Rieger Finds Him Everywhere, From Twain to Wharton to Lewis...

By Susan Rieger | June 20, 2017

Five Pieces of Writing Advice from Philip Schultz

Five Pieces of Writing Advice from Philip Schultz

Beware the Shitbird

By Emily Temple | May 3, 2017

Teddy Roosevelt vs. Mark Twain: A Brief History of American Intervensionism

Teddy Roosevelt vs. Mark Twain: A Brief History of American Intervensionism

Christopher Lydon in Conversation with Stephen Kinzer

By Christopher Lydon | February 20, 2017

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