“Twenty years after A Million Little Pieces became a national scandal, James Frey is ready for a new audience.”
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The Talented Ms. Highsmith
“I worked for the novelist in her final months. I thought she wanted to kill me.”
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I’d Like to Report a Murder
“Lauren Oyler and Brandon Taylor talk to hannah baer about the dark art of literary takedowns.”
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The Collapse of Self-Worth in the Digital Age
“Why are we letting algorithms rewrite the rules of art, work, and life?”
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The Case of the Missing Chacmools
“Geoffrey Gray investigates the writer’s bizarre cult and finds himself entangled in a web of murky financial dealings, sex, possible foul play—and one death-defying supernatural being.”
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Invisible Ink: At the CIA’s Creative Writing Group
“When an organization has, say, financed the overthrow of the government of Guatemala, you would think there might be a speaking fee.”
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Poets in the Machine
Why does the literary world still hold online writing at arm’s length?
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In Conversation: Julia Sanches & Mara Faye Lethem
“Why would anyone not want the richness that comes from learning a new form of communication, with all the culture it entails?”