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June 13, 2013

Horace and the Ages of Excess

by Harry Eyres While researching Horace and Me, my book on the Roman poet (and…

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June 6, 2013

George the Gentlemanly Ghost

by Toby Barlow This is a ghost story, I think. So, one morning, I woke…

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June 6, 2013

Why Pickling Can’t Solve Everything

or, How to Bait a Trap for Yourself by Eli Brown In Cinnamon and Gunpowder,…

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May 29, 2013

Even a White Wall Is Beautiful

When I got off the ferry in the harbor of the Greek island of Sifnos…

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May 29, 2013

How to Read a Novelist

Jonathan Franzen by John Freeman Last week in Work in Progress we brought you John…

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May 23, 2013

Nicola Griffith & Sean McDonald

Authors and Editors in Conversation Sean McDonald: So, 7th-century England! How did that happen?…

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May 23, 2013

How to Read a Novelist

Jeffrey Eugenides by John Freeman For the past fifteen years or so, whenever a novel…

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May 9, 2013

Janet Malcolm & Ileene Smith

Authors and Editors in Conversation Ileene Smith: The title essay of your recently published volume—Forty-one…

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May 3, 2013

Brian McGreevy & Sean McDonald

Authors and Editors in Conversation Sean McDonald: How surreal has it been to watch your…

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May 3, 2013

George Packer & Alex Star

Authors and Editors in Conversation Alex Star: You've titled your book The Unwinding. What do…

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April 18, 2013

On Lorca’s Poet in New York

by Maureen N. McLane What a strange, vital, careening book—what a book for now. Yet…

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April 11, 2013

AWAYWARD

Averill Curdy on What Brought Her to Poetry Wayward: difficult to control or predict; shortened…

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April 11, 2013

O Publishing!

On Willa Cather, Alfred A. Knopf, and a case of Rothschild by Jeff Seroy Twenty-seven…

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April 4, 2013

Giving Away My Library

by Mark S. Weiner On a winter afternoon in 2006, on my birthday, I gave…

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March 21, 2013

Gavin Corbett & Mitzi Angel

Authors and Editors in Conversation Mitzi Angel: I particularly enjoyed your portrait of Dublin in…

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March 14, 2013

Rebecca Miller & Jonathan Galassi

Authors and Editors in Conversation Jonathan Galassi: Rebecca, lots of people are going to be…

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March 5, 2013

Sam Lipsyte & Eric Chinski

Authors and Editors in Conversation Eric Chinski: In The Fun Parts you're returning to short…

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February 28, 2013

On Writing Jacob’s Folly

by Rebecca Miller I started with one image: a fireman peeing on his front lawn,…

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February 14, 2013

Girls and Dead Poets

by Dennis Mahoney It’s 1990 and I’m a loser. Becoming a novelist hasn’t crossed my…

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February 7, 2013

Jamaica Kincaid & Jonathan Galassi

Authors and Editors in Conversation Jonathan Galassi: Jamaica, this is your first novel in a…

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