Take a Tour of Octavia Butler’s Favorite Libraries
The interactive map features photographs of the Kindred author's book call slips, writing notebooks, personal journals and more.
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The Millions Top 10
Extinguishing the Self: On Robert Stone
Stone's work reads as if it were composed to the tune of clanging blacksmiths and left to cool under the stars somewhere far from land. This is the conundrum of good writing. It can take you anywhere.
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Gravity and Grace and the Virus
It was strangely comforting to read things that had been written in a time of crisis, yet one that was not this crisis, this unbearable time.
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Tuesday New Release Day: Starring Joukhadar, Celan, and van Heemstra
Here’s a quick look at some notable books—new titles from Zeyn Joukhadar, Paul Celan, and Marjolijn van Heemstra—that are publishing this week.
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Claire Messud on the Value of an Ordinary Life
The author discusses social media, finding hope in art, and her new essay collection, Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write.
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The Stories We Become: On William Cash’s ‘Restoration Heart’
Cash’s memoir is the story of a man whose penchant for letters suggests a desire to hold on to the present. Sealing up the envelope means ending the letter: allowing our fantasies and stories to be finished, read, and judged.
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Past Made Present: On Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s ‘Photostats’
I’m wondering, when will there be an intervention, a disruption, a reckoning with the current trajectory we’ve taken? Perhaps it begins with the 2020 elections and becomes something we enact daily.
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Douglas Stuart on Writing in Secret
The Shuggie Bain author grew up in a culture that discouraged boys from reading. His debut novel just won the Booker Prize.
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The Narrative Drama Triangle: On Sayed Kashua’s ‘Track Changes’
That is the complicated relation of truth to fiction: although the story is a lie, the emotions couldn’t be more real.
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‘The Orchard’: Featured Fiction from David Hopen
An excerpt from a book Booklist called "a brilliantly conceived and crafted coming-of-age novel of ideas, replete with literary and philosophical references."
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