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An image of the author Mac Barnett, who sits in a wood-paneled room, touched by streaks of light. Beside him is the cover of his new book, Make Believe.

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The Secret Door

by Mac Barnett May 5, 2026May 4, 2026

“When we read, we make believe. We aren’t duped or ensorcelled. Deep down we decide. We make ourselves believe.”

Editor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Writing

Letters from Trenton

by Thomas Swick July 5, 2018October 19, 2022

While striving to become a travel writer in the years after Watergate, Thomas Swick discovered that although writing for a newspaper was educational, there was more to be learned through romance with a foreigner.

Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story, Writing

Letters from Trenton

by Thomas Swick July 5, 2018October 19, 2022

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Coining Catchphrases on ‘Seinfeld’

by juliawick October 6, 2015October 19, 2022

“Humor can be dissected as a frog can,” E.B. White famously wrote, “but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the purely scientific mind.” It’s from this quotation that Poking a Dead Frog: Conversations With Today’s Top Comedy Writers, Mike Sacks’ 2014 collection of interviews with humorists, takes its […]

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The Way Theater Worked in 1955

by Aaron Gilbreath May 26, 2015October 19, 2022

In 1955, playwright Arthur Miller, author of Death of a Salesman, published the essay “The American Theater” in the American travel magazine Holiday. Holiday ran from 1946 and 1977. Joan Didion’s “Notes from a Native Daughter” first appeared in Holiday. Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, Paul Bowles and John Steinbeck wrote for it. Though E.B. White’s […]