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A Pretty Girl, a Novel with Voices, and Ring-Tailed Lemurs
Extracts from forthcoming books by Kathryn Davis, Jane DeLynn, N. H. Pritchard, Katherine Rundell, and Izumi Suzuki.
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A Painter Is Being Beaten: Freud and Kantarovsky
How to stay with this painful stirring? In Freud, the artist always did this best, somehow working at the limit of repression ...
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On Writing Advice and the People Who Give It
What confuses me so much about those who have prescriptions for how to write is that they assume all humans experience the world the same way.” ...
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The City Is Covered in Snow: From the Notebooks of Orhan Pamuk
Orhan Pamuk is the author of twelve novels, the memoir Istanbul, three works of nonfiction, and two photography books, and the recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature. Memories of Distant ...
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The Hawk's Cry in Autumn
Wind from the northwestern quarter is lifting him high above ...
The Paris Review4d
There Is Only One Clique and You Are the Only One
The Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Sharon Olds discusses sex, religion, and writing poems that “women were definitely not supposed to write,” in an excerpt from her Art of Poetry interview with Jessica ...
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The Black Venus: For Max Ernst
of Sedona, Arizona, with a blank book for poems. Didn't we emerge from the same prehistoric egg amid sparks of jet & obsidian embedded in the hills of Montmartre? "Only Negroes can excite Paris." ...
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The Dead Soldier's Talk
I’m tired of lying here. The mountain and the river are not bad.
The Paris Review4d
Found Poem: Wind Fells Oklahoma's Ancient Chimney Rock
WANOKA (AP) Chimney Rock, which stood for centuries on the Oklahoma plain as a towering guide for covered wagons crossing the treacherous Cimarron River, has fallen victim to the same forces which ...