How to Live Your Best Bookish Life Day
Because we want you to start the new year, and the new decade, with your best foot forward, we’re dedicating today to living your best…
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Who Are the Hanged Men?
José Clemente Orozco, The Hanged Men from The American Scene, no. 1, 1933–34, published 1935. © 2020 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SOMAAP,…
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What All Those Dead Girls Say About Us
This is a guest post from Kit Frick. Kit is a novelist, poet, and MacDowell Colony fellow from Pittsburgh, PA. She studied creative writing at…
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Evelyn Puerto on How to Write Great Dialogue in a Story
Speaking is part of being human. The idea of being able to communicate is essential to our day-to-day life. If we’re so good at communicating,…
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8 Bequests By Famous Authors to Libraries
In October 2019, InsideHook reported that Philip Roth, author of Portnoy’s Complaint, gave a bequest of over $2 million to his hometown library in New…
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A Slap in the Face of Stalinism
Varlam Shalamov in 1929. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. “Every story of mine is a slap in the face of Stalinism,” Varlam Shalamov wrote to…
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Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for January 9, 2020
Sponsored by Paula Chase. These deals were active as of this writing, but may expire soon, so get them while they’re hot! Today’s Featured Deals You…
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August Wilson on the Legacy of Martin Luther King
On this archival recording, playwright August Wilson celebrates the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. with a reading at the 92nd Street Y’s Unterberg Poetry…
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How to Use Scrivener to Write Scenes That Work
Sometimes it happens. You get that niggling feeling that the scene you just wrote isn’t sitting right, isn’t accomplishing what it needs to do. It…
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Bah, Humbug
Sabrina Orah Mark’s monthly column, Happily, focuses on fairy tales and motherhood. It is December in Georgia, and we are driving past…
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