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What Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore Learned From Each Other

What Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore Learned From Each Other

Rachel Cohen on an Epistolary Friendship Between Two Giants of American Poetry

By Rachel Cohen | March 19, 2024

American Spirits"> Remembering Russell Banks: Mary Morris on Her Long Friendship With the Author of <em

Remembering Russell Banks: Mary Morris on Her Long Friendship With the Author of <em

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American Spirits">Remembering Russell Banks: Mary Morris on Her Long Friendship With the Author of American Spirits

"I grew up with Russell—as a writer, as a teacher and thinker, and as a friend."

By Mary Morris | March 5, 2024

Julie Schumacher on Thirty Years of Correspondence With Her Late Friend, Melissa Bank

Julie Schumacher on Thirty Years of Correspondence With Her Late Friend, Melissa Bank

"If I were writing to her now, which I suppose I am, I would tell her that I will remember her."

By Julie Schumacher | August 2, 2023

How Virginia Woolf Shunned—and Then Embraced—T.S. Eliot

How Virginia Woolf Shunned—and Then Embraced—T.S. Eliot

Lyndall Gordon on the Rocky Beginnings of a Literary Friendship

By Lyndall Gordon | November 23, 2022

Read the letter that began the legendary friendship between Henry James and Edith Wharton.

Read the letter that began the legendary friendship between Henry James and Edith Wharton.

By Vanessa Willoughby | October 26, 2021

My Shadow Book: On Consciously—or Unconsciously—Immortalizing Ex-Partners in Literary Fiction

My Shadow Book: On Consciously—or Unconsciously—Immortalizing Ex-Partners in Literary Fiction

Andrew Palmer Struggles with the Idea of Creating Characters (Partly) Based on an Ex

By Andrew Palmer | August 17, 2021

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"In the end, Jim Harrison was a country boy who’d been touched."

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