Connected at the Roots: A Conversation with Margot Livesey

The August 2020 publication of Margot Livesey’s The Boy in the Field comes 30 years after her first novel, Homework. In that time Livesey has earned a wide range of honors, including fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and National Endowment from the arts, a New York Times bestseller (The Flight of Gemma Hardy, 2012) as […] Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'

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Devoted to Devotionals

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Clint Smith Returns to His Roots in Poetry

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Panel Mania: Algorithmic Reality by Damian Bradfield and David Sánchez

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Four Ukrainian Writers on Literature, Solidarity, and the Future of Justice

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