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The Art of the Guild
Freemasonry seems old-fashioned, if not obsolete. But Jennifer Sky argues that writers of the digital age have a lot to learn from the freemasons. Continue reading
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Art & Life & Lunch With Will Self
Sam Mills sets out to meet her hero, Will Self, and meditates on food, fiction and second comings, plus the spiritual enlightenment of celebrity culture Continue reading
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What Edith Wharton Knew: Bieber, Ambition and the A-List
Tom Gualtieri wonders if social-climbing has changed 100 years after the publication of Edith Wharton’s THE CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY. Continue reading
Capes of Wrath
The stuff of comic books is essentially a raw, undiluted breed of native magical realism, American in origin and as ingrained in our culture as jazz, baseball, or the WWE. Samuel Sattin discusses comics, masculinity, and his debut novel, League of Somebodies. Continue reading
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Haunted by a doppelganger, another Richard Benson, this Richard Benson insists he is not the humorist and certainly not the author of books like F in Exams. Continue reading
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Looking at the Numbers Trouble: The VIDA Count and Me
Twenty years before VIDA started collecting statistics that revealed how many more men than women were featured in premier literary publications, Zoe Zolbrod noticed the same kind of disparity. She tried to talk herself out of paying attention, until VIDA’s numbers helped her remember why she should. Continue reading
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Well “Red”: 8 Reasons Why Taylor Swift Should Date a Writer
If you want a “Love Story,” Taylor, you must love story. And the writers who craft it. Continue reading
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