When women can't speak up, a chorus of voices should rise to their aid, though that often seems like too much to hope for. John Irving understands this in a way most male writers don't or can't.
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Talking with the author of The Well-Dressed Wound about the appeal of evil, the sexual proclivities of cereal mascots, and how much fucking there must have been during the Civil War.
Who gets to keep the record that everyone is so bored making?
Passed down through generations, fables provide rich material for everything from novels such as Patrick deWitt's Undermajordomo Minor, to Rocky and Bullwinkle and the Twilight Zone.
Covering mirrors while in mourning has a curious ambivalence: both ritual and superstition, a way of honoring the dead and warding them off, a vow that hides within the fear of something going wrong.
As video games increasingly adopt the language and pacing of literature—intricate plots, morally ambiguous characters, endlessly expansive worlds—what effect are they in turn having on books?
Speaking with the author of Girl in the Spider’s Web about class, mental illness, and making yogurt interesting.
Talking to the author of In The Country about expatriate communities, Filipino and otherwise, the protection fiction can offer, and the holes migration can leave in your experiences.
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