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Chloe Michelle Howarth on How to End a Piece of Writing

Chloe Michelle Howarth on How to End a Piece of Writing

“After the last page, it’s as much their story as it is mine.”

By Chloe Michelle Howarth | July 18, 2025

On the Challenge of Writing a Sequel to a Twenty-Year-Old Novel

On the Challenge of Writing a Sequel to a Twenty-Year-Old Novel

Lee Martin Needed a New Story to Explain the Ending of “The Bright Forever”

By Lee Martin | April 1, 2025

Beautiful and Innovative: In Praise of Artistic Experimentation in Literature

Beautiful and Innovative: In Praise of Artistic Experimentation in Literature

Sam Mills Makes the Case For Marrying the Literary and the Visual in Fiction and Nonfiction

By Sam Mills | February 14, 2025

We’re Not in Winesburg Anymore: On the Literature of the Small Town

We’re Not in Winesburg Anymore: On the Literature of the Small Town

Carolyn Kuebler Recommends Kathryn Davis, Linda Legarde Grover, Jon McGregor, and More

By Carolyn Kuebler | May 16, 2024

How Lydia Ernestine Becker Was Once Central to—Then Excluded from—the Study of Botany

How Lydia Ernestine Becker Was Once Central to—Then Excluded from—the Study of Botany

Erin Zimmerman on How Botany Helped to Complicate Our Views of Gender

By Erin Zimmerman | April 19, 2024

My Search for Answers in the Fringe “30 Bananas a Day” Movement

My Search for Answers in the Fringe “30 Bananas a Day” Movement

Jacqueline Alnes on the Promises of Freelee The Banana Girl and Durianrider

By Jacqueline Alnes | January 17, 2024

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Mary Jo McConahay Recommends Olga M. Segura, Katherine Stewart, and More

By Mary Jo McConahay | April 6, 2023

A Multiverse of Words: Mirza Waheed on the Happy Coincidences of Omnivorous Reading

A Multiverse of Words: Mirza Waheed on the Happy Coincidences of Omnivorous Reading

“I’ve been trying to bring back to life that old, unencumbered young reader who reads what absorbs him, at leisure, at ease.”

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