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What Is the Value of Being Haunted? The Millions Interviews Randon Billings Noble

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Essays are more important than ever! I mean writing that slows down, deliberates, ruminates, and examines its own beliefs even as it states them.
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Little Islands of Faith: The Millions Interviews Tupelo Hassman

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To my mind, Catholicism has many of the prettiest and most satisfying ways of evidencing faith. Because we want to touch it, don’t we?
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Shane Jones’s Latest Book Takes on the World of Work

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One of my goals with ‘Vincent and Alice and Alice’ was to write an entertaining mainstream novel that also feels a little weird and imaginative.
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Magic in the Mundane: The Millions Interviews Kimberly King Parsons

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A good, long talk with the ‘Black Light’ debut author about bodies, secrets, the patriarchy, escaping it, revision, Amy Hempel, and more.
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Another Other: Gideon Glick on Broadway’s ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’

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I’ve created Dill as a proto-Truman Capote, a young queer boy in the Deep South in the ’30s. To carry that around you have to have a strong armor.
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A Pure Life of the Mind: The Millions Interview with Karen Olsson

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Olsson's new biography of the brilliant French siblings Simone and André Weil is a portrait-in-pieces of what it means to be a thinker and writer.
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A Vibrant Sense of Hope: The Millions Interviews J. Ryan Stradal

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Stradal's sophomore novel is the kind of book you read and immediately want to share. It’s a story about family, hard work, and goodness.
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An American in Afghanistan: The Millions Interviews James Longley

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The function of documentary—at least when I make one—is to augment our vision, understanding, and knowledge of the real world.
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Humane, but Not Nice: The Millions Interviews Amanda Goldblatt

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I’m interested in art that reflects flaws as opposed to resolving flaws, or seeking to resolve flaws. Whatever deepens flaws is more what I’m into.
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On Living Stories: Kristen Millares Young in Conversation with Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum

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The two authors talk about the intersections of community and the canon: “There must be space in literature for the multiplicity of human experiences.”
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John Zada Is Still Searching for Sasquatch

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The journalist and photographer on how a boyhood preoccupation turned into a book-length adventure story about the American Bigfoot, in all its forms.
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I Am Loudermilk: The Millions Interviews Lucy Ives

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When I write fiction I often discover I know a great deal more about the fictional world (and the fictional people in it) than I know about the real world.
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Mitchell Zuckoff on Writing His 9/11 Magnum Opus

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It was the deepest dive I have ever taken. As much as I care about all of the work I’ve done, I knew I would never tell a more important story than this.
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I Have Never Felt That I Have Roots: The Millions Interviews Isabel Allende

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I didn’t plan to write about refugees, but the conversations are all around us, and it just seeps into my books. In this one, it is the central theme.
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Telling Toni Morrison’s Story: The Millions Interviews Timothy Greenfield-Sanders

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The Pieces I Am presents Toni as the person that I know. Audiences will see her as the brilliant, strong woman she is. They will love her more than ever.
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When We Were Young: Christine Sneed in Conversation with Anthony Varallo

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I don’t know why I have to keep learning the same lesson again, but here’s one I can't seem to remember: Your writing doesn’t care about your plans for it.
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We Can Be Anyone: A Pride Month Conversation with Nicole Dennis-Benn

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I think of that little girl in me, that 17-year-old, 14-year-old, who wanted to see books like mine. I wanted to see love between two women on the page.
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Celebrity Culture and the Mechanics of Fame

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It’s the interactions of media, the public, and stars that create celebrity culture, and those interactions are dynamic and unpredictable.
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