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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…

Apr 24, 2017

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

Apr 24, 2017

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.

Feb 15, 2017

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

Feb 15, 2017

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…

Jan 23, 2017

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

Jan 23, 2017

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…

Jan 18, 2017

Sinclair Lewis and the Challenge to Democracy

Jan 18, 2017

What Stephen King Can Teach Us About Bullying

By Tom Blunt

Jan 9, 2017

What Stephen King Can Teach Us About Bullying

Jan 9, 2017

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…

Nov 28, 2016

Bram Stoker’s 1876 Fan Letter to Walt Whitman

Nov 28, 2016

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…

Nov 10, 2016

Write On: 27 of the Best Books on Writing

Nov 10, 2016

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.

Oct 24, 2016

Surviving NaNoWriMo, the Tough Mudder of Writing Challenges

Oct 24, 2016

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?

Oct 10, 2016

This is How Literary Fiction Teaches Us to Be Human

Oct 10, 2016

Erik Larson on the Art of Storytelling

By Scott Porch

Oct 3, 2016

Erik Larson on the Art of Storytelling

Oct 3, 2016

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