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Look inside the only surviving copy of Joseph Pulitzer’s secret code book.

Look inside the only surviving copy of Joseph Pulitzer’s secret code b...

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Time to rewatch this iconic performance of Where the Wild Things Are.

Time to rewatch this iconic performance of Where the Wild Things Are.

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“Nobody ever made fun of him, but I did.” Orson Welles on his friendship with Hemingway.

“Nobody ever made fun of him, but I did.” Orson Welles on his friendsh...

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Here’s the shortlist for NYPL’s 2021 Young Lions Fiction award.

Here’s the shortlist for NYPL’s 2021 Young Lions Fiction award.

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Emma Cline: ‘Reading anything because you “should” doesn’t make sense to me’

Emma Cline: ‘Reading anything because you “should” doesn’t make sense ...

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“Portrait of Two Young Ladies in White and Green Robes (Unidentified Artist, circa Sixteenth Century)”

“Portrait of Two Young Ladies in White and Green Robes (Unidentified A...

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The Donald Barthelme Story Nobody Talks About But Everyone Should Read

The Donald Barthelme Story Nobody Talks About But Everyone Should Read...

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On Great Literary Loves and the Joyous, Complicated Brilliance of Walt Whitman

On Great Literary Loves and the Joyous, Complicated Brilliance of Walt...

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On Dealing with Literary Rejection: The Importance of Letting Go and Moving On

On Dealing with Literary Rejection: The Importance of Letting Go and M...

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On the Necessary (and Inevitable) Rise of the Nature Memoir: A Reading List

On the Necessary (and Inevitable) Rise of the Nature Memoir: A Reading...

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Searching for Three Generations of Secrets at a French Chateau

Searching for Three Generations of Secrets at a French Chateau

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How to Raise Your Children on the History of Protest

How to Raise Your Children on the History of Protest

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Why Targeted Ads Are a Disaster for Democracy

Why Targeted Ads Are a Disaster for Democracy

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A Secret, Symbolic History of Pomegranates

A Secret, Symbolic History of Pomegranates

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Subverting the Script of the Adoption Industrial Complex

Subverting the Script of the Adoption Industrial Complex

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Are you a Tolkien fan? Contribute to this oral history collection.

Are you a Tolkien fan? Contribute to this oral history collection.

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Here are the literary Guggenheim Fellows of 2021.

Here are the literary Guggenheim Fellows of 2021.

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Traci Lester has been named as the Center for Fiction’s new Executive Director.

Traci Lester has been named as the Center for Fiction’s new Executive ...

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What to read next based on your favorite… way to make eggs.

What to read next based on your favorite… way to make eggs.

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How 5 Books on Black Motherhood Helped Me Write My Debut Novel

How 5 Books on Black Motherhood Helped Me Write My Debut Novel

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Hook the Reader and Hold Them: Why More Writers Should Study the Lessons of YA

Hook the Reader and Hold Them: Why More Writers Should Study the Lesso...

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Mass Incarceration Was Always Designed to Work This Way

Mass Incarceration Was Always Designed to Work This Way

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How Leonora Carrington’s Self-Portrait Helped Me Tell Her Story

How Leonora Carrington’s Self-Portrait Helped Me Tell Her Story

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Imaginary Histories: How Tolkien’s Fascination with Language Shaped His Literary World

Imaginary Histories: How Tolkien’s Fascination with Language Shaped Hi...

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Did anyone actually . . . like William Wordsworth?

Did anyone actually . . . like William Wordsworth?

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Bring back the “erotic far left.” Or, why Violette Leduc’s The Taxi needs a new translation.

Bring back the “erotic far left.” Or, why Violette Leduc’s The Taxi ne...

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