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Genre as Liberation: Lee Irby on Learning to Manipulate Thriller Tropes

Genres can be stern taskmasters, none more so than the thriller with its conventions of suspense that come variously from Aristotle, Poe…

4 min readApr 24, 2017

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Genre as Liberation: Lee Irby on Learning to Manipulate Thriller Tropes

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I Traveled Halfway Around the World to Discover Gratitude For My Marriage

I was finding it really hard to be grateful for just about anything.

6 min readFeb 15, 2017

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I Traveled Halfway Around the World to Discover Gratitude For My Marriage

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The Lasting Brilliance of ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?’

Like many people my age or younger, I came to Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by way of the film adaptation: Ridley Scott’s 1982…

5 min readJan 23, 2017

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The Lasting Brilliance of ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?’

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Sinclair Lewis and the Challenge to Democracy

Although Sinclair Lewis is known to many as the author of such bestsellers as Main Street, Babbitt, and Elmer Gantry, he’s been…

3 min readJan 18, 2017

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Sinclair Lewis and the Challenge to Democracy

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What Stephen King Can Teach Us About Bullying

By Tom Blunt

12 min readJan 9, 2017

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What Stephen King Can Teach Us About Bullying

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Bram Stoker’s 1876 Fan Letter to Walt Whitman

When Bram Stoker discovered Walt Whitman, he was a young man only just beginning a literary career that would eventually create one of the…

2 min readNov 28, 2016

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Bram Stoker’s 1876 Fan Letter to Walt Whitman

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Write On: 27 of the Best Books on Writing

Writing is, as a general rule, hard. Defining yourself as a writer can be even harder. Sure, there are other difficult practices like law…

12 min readNov 10, 2016

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Write On: 27 of the Best Books on Writing

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Surviving NaNoWriMo, the Tough Mudder of Writing Challenges

That chill felt by writers at the sound of the words “National Novel Writing Month” is more than just a brisk fall wind.

6 min readOct 24, 2016

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Surviving NaNoWriMo, the Tough Mudder of Writing Challenges

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This is How Literary Fiction Teaches Us to Be Human

Think about every bully you can remember, whether from fiction or real life. What do they all have in common?

9 min readOct 10, 2016

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This is How Literary Fiction Teaches Us to Be Human

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Erik Larson on the Art of Storytelling

By Scott Porch

9 min readOct 3, 2016

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Erik Larson on the Art of Storytelling

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Penguin Random House, Inc., the world’s largest English language trade publisher, bringing you the best in fiction, nonfiction, and children’s books.

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