FICTIONAL

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Life inside the Fiction Factory: Dan Sinykin on Conglomerate Publishing

Life inside the Fiction Factory: Dan Sinykin on Conglom...

“An author’s photo is more appealing to the consumer than the publisher’s coloph...

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John Plotz on Earthsea, Anarchism, and Ursula K. Le Guin

John Plotz on Earthsea, Anarchism, and Ursula K. Le Guin

“Rather than thinking of creative arts and sciences as ‘two cultures,’ we should...

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“Their Lives Go On beyond the Book”: A Conversation with Sarah Blakley-Cartwright

“Their Lives Go On beyond the Book”: A Conversation wit...

“It’s wonderful to be haunted by characters; because they aren’t ‘real,’ they ca...

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You Write Because You Want to Feel Free: Katie Kitamura and Alexander Manshel

You Write Because You Want to Feel Free: Katie Kitamura...

“I grew up with this very firm sense that there were multiple places that I coul...

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It’s Not Only Human Stories Worth Telling: Sigrid Nunez’s Animal Novels

It’s Not Only Human Stories Worth Telling: Sigrid Nunez...

Why are animals so central to Sigrid Nunez’s thinking about the status of fictio...

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Lahiri’s Metamorphoses

Lahiri’s Metamorphoses

Over eight years have passed since Jhumpa Lahiri announced her intention to leav...

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Escape Velocity: Sarah Manguso in Conversation with Tess McNulty

Escape Velocity: Sarah Manguso in Conversation with Tes...

“It's still a vast mystery to me how one can write knowing anything at all what ...

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The Writing “I” and the Reading “I”: Sheila Heti and the New Frontiers of the Personal

The Writing “I” and the Reading “I”: Sheila Heti and th...

In her latest, Sheila Heti embarks on an inverted Oulipian experiment, producing...

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Karla Cornejo Villavicencio on “Catalina”

Karla Cornejo Villavicencio on “Catalina”

“I find human behavior fascinating. I find it interesting. I find all of it conf...

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Dirt Bag Novels: Lydia Kiesling in Conversation with Megan Ward

Dirt Bag Novels: Lydia Kiesling in Conversation with Me...

“When I think about the novels that sort of shaped me as a younger reader, they'...

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