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Seeing Illness: Medical Memoirs by Graphic Novelists
Seeing Illness: Medical Memoirs by Graphic Novelists
By Freddie Moore
October 23, 2014

Harvey Pekar’s Our Cancer Year, David Small’s Stitches, Julia Wertz’s The Infinite Wait — how do graphic novels plumb sickness so deeply?

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Eat Prey Drug: Sweet Charity
Eat Prey Drug: Sweet Charity
By Paul Kwiatkowski
October 10, 2014

Coming out of isolation and starting over in Wisconsin.

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The Sun Don't Shine on a Moonshine Still
The Sun Don't Shine on a Moonshine Still
By Kim McCann
October 03, 2014

Get a bleary-eyed view of moonshining from a modern day bootlegger.

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Eat Prey Drug: Motel 6
Eat Prey Drug: Motel 6
By Paul Kwiatkowski
September 26, 2014

A pit-stop in South Dakota reconnects friends, memories and everyone with a camera phone.

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The Phantom Behind The Phantom of the Opera
The Phantom Behind The Phantom of the Opera
By Benjamin Welton
September 03, 2014

Most famous for The Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Leroux was also an accomplished — though now largely forgotten — journalist and short story writer.

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Borges, Master of Nonfiction
Borges, Master of Nonfiction
By Tom Griggs
August 22, 2014

Best known for his intricate short stories, Jorge Luis Borges wrote considerably more — and some would say better — essays, articles and criticisms.

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The Fantastic (Free) Nonfiction of Great Novelists
The Fantastic (Free) Nonfiction of Great Novelists
By B. David Zarley
August 20, 2014

Joyce Carol Oates, David Foster Wallace, Zadie Smith — you’ve read their books, now check out their essays, articles and criticism available free online.

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Orange is the New Black: A Supplementary Reading List
Orange is the New Black: A Supplementary Reading List
By Michelle King
August 19, 2014

Writing by the real Piper, Larry, Alex and more.

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Homage to George Orwell’s Nonfiction
Homage to George Orwell’s Nonfiction
By Benjamin Welton
August 08, 2014

Best known for penning the novels Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, Orwell spent the majority of his career as a brilliant journalist, essayist and critic.

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Etgar Keret on Israel & Why Fiction Writers Should Discuss Politics
Etgar Keret on Israel & Why Fiction Writers Should Discuss Politics
By Freddie Moore
July 28, 2014

Keret’s new op-ed in The New Yorker resounds a very necessary call for writers to speak their minds.

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