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Writing
February 27, 2014
Leslie Jamison
Which Creates Better Writers: An MFA Program or New York City?
'MFA vs NYC' investigates the relationship between creativity and collectivity
February 26, 2014
Adam Kirsch
The Real Reason Writers Love the Amtrak Residency
It's not just the free train ticket
January 20, 2014
Alice Robb
Is Drinking Responsible for the Great American Novel?
November 5, 2013
Meredith Turits
Therapy: The Cause of, and Solution to, All of Writers' Problems
October 29, 2013
Luke O'Neil
Yes, Young Writers Should Give Their Work Away for Free
It's sad but true: There's no other way to make it
October 25, 2013
Lionel Shriver
How to Succeed as an Author: Give Up on Writing
The rancid smell of 21st century literary success
November 3, 2003
Zadie Smith
The Limited Circle Is Pure
November 25, 1956
James T. Farrell
Writers with Few Readers
March 20, 1955
Upton Sinclair
Enemy in the Mouth
August 27, 1951
MagazineElizabeth Bishop
Love From Emily
To Emily Dickinson, little besides love, human and divine, was worth writing about, and often the two seemed to fuse.

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