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How to Write a Book That’s Based on a True Story

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Life is filled with stranger-than-fiction moments. But how do you write a book based on a true story? How do you take those fantastical events…

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Literature

Staff Picks: Witches, Glitches, and Governesses

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Anne Serre. Photo: ©Sophie Bassouls/Leemage and New Directions Publishing. Anne Serre’s The Governesses (translated from the French by Mark Hutchinson) is like someone else’s feverish…

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Literature

On Immolation

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In her column “Detroit Archives,” Aisha Sabatini Sloan explores her family history through iconic landmarks in Detroit.  Part of the Heidelberg Project in Detroit, Michigan…

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Literature

Staff Picks: Brownstones, Ballpoint, and Belonging

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Arundhati Roy. Photo: © Mayank Austen Soofi. Haymarket Books will release Azadi: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction., a slim new collection of essays by Arundhati Roy, this…

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Literature

Quarantine Reads: The U.S.A. Trilogy

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Our flat in London has five windows and two skylights. Like most renters in this city, we have no yard, no balcony, no fire escape.…

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Literature

Quarantine Reads: The Anatomy of Melancholy

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In this series, writers present the books they’re finally making time for.  Melancholy is a condition unsuited to a pandemic. Like ennui, it is an…

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Writing

The Magic of Atmosphere: Literary Definition and Genre Examples

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Atmosphere matters. People will pay a premium to eat at a restaurant with a certain ambience or buy a house in a setting that supports…

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Literature

Poets on Couches: Lynn Melnick

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    In this series of videograms, poets read and discuss the poems getting them through these strange times—broadcasting straight from their couches to yours.…

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Literature

Staff Picks: Puddings, Pastels, and Plano

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Still from Autumn de Wilde’s Emma. The coronavirus has thrown a wrench into Aries season, but plans for my March birthday remained unchanged. I watched…

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A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Make Money from Again

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It began with a simple longing, born in the humid 105 degree Austin summer: I just want to wear clothes that do not touch my…

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