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In the street waiting for a cab, Ann’s boyfriend entrusted me with the story.

I would chase it to the shores of the lake where the killer waited.

An in-depth audio interview with Ann Beattie on her writing.

Frank Conroy

Audio clips of Pultizer Prize winner Jennifer Egan on her work.

Getting over being drunk makes you wonder why the hell you did that.

You see, I plan on remaining here as the most foolish god in the world.

Being with Kate was like a circuit connecting, lighting everything up.

Love I know is the husk caught and throbbing under your gums.

The cherry tree’s trance of petals tumbled bit by bit to the sidewalk.

A painter dies of a heart attack before finishing a portrait of Churchill.

The light from dead stars only exists in the minds of the living.

Their marriage had dwindled to a separation and a running joke.

Knowing that it will end i saw myself again at the fair popping balloons

ConEd drills the street to dendrites, tapping morse at the old house.

Do the work. Every day. Take a step back and see if you love it.

Fidel narrates the home video: See the women on the beach? Beauty.

His beginnings, his genesis as a writer, and the fateful connections between life and art.

Without you, would I still be reaching out for myself now?

If I had been blessed that afternoon, why did I lose my tongue?

And so it was clear that Mia was still basically a teenager.

I was tracing my finger along his hoodied back, to draw the route.

Let us not forget the desuetude of nailed-shut carousels.

I seek these ghosts because they allow me to return home outside of time.

He didn’t come to arrive, he came to go, and yet that didn’t matter.

I want to change the subject, but I can’t. I need to think about dying.

Tana Wozcjuk

He got his wife off a German farmer, for whom he went to work one day.

Ira and Ada are stepsiblings. Within a month they were sleeping together.

Atomic bomb. How could those two words be said together?