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Walt Whitman’s Specimen Days: a Q&A
The most interesting book I read in 2025 was by a self-proclaimed poet.
Jan 29
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5 Ways to Read like a Writer
Aug 26, 2022
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Menopause Lit
Sep 6, 2024
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Four books by Sarah Moss
Jan 31, 2025
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Jun 15, 2025
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What I read in 2025: the fiction.
The annual list, with annotation. (Also a brief review of my year in writing.)
Jan 14
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A Reader's Interview with Lucas Schaefer
The author of The Slip answers questions about fatherhood, revision, and creative risk.
Dec 18, 2025
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Dispatches from the Texas Book Festival
Poets, writers, trail mix, a barking dog.
Nov 21, 2025
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Austin is a tug-of-war over a lake that is really a river.
Why I love The Slip by Lucas Schaefer.
Oct 7, 2025
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How to Collect Words like a Writer
Gianni Rodari's "fantastic binomials," cobblery with Emily Hunt Kivel, and other thoughts about words
Sep 19, 2025
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A reader's interview with Emily Hunt Kivel
The author of "Dwelling" talks fairy tales, Marxism, and writing with humor.
Aug 3, 2025
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Amerikanka
A bookish girl goes to Russia in the summer of 1997.
Jul 13, 2025
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Recommit
An unusually personal post; and how to keep reading during a busy season
Jun 15, 2025
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A Reader's Interview with Julia Phillips
Fairy tales, Russian lit, and the joys of reading out loud to children with the author of Disappearing Earth and Bear.
Mar 23, 2025
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