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Second and Long

“Why did James Whitehead—poet, fiction writer, and onetime college football player—fail to complete a successor to his celebrated first novel?”

“We abandon stories. They don’t end.”

Learning lessons about love while living in a 1961 Artcraft mobile home in Moab, Utah.

It wasn’t entirely Laura Lippman’s idea to become a mother in her 50s. But when it happened, she leaned in hard.

Anthony Boudain passed away in Strasbourg, France, on Friday, June 8th, at age 61.

“Debut author Naima Coster on working with Morgan Parker, the whiteness of publishing, and literary self-determination.”