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In Megan Fernandes’s collection “I Do Everything I’m Told,” geography paradoxically points to places off the map, not to real life but to potential life, to places that can be inhabited only in the poems. https://t.co/eGzREKUw1T

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On Hermann Hesse’s birthday, revisit Adam Kirsch on how the beloved author of “Siddhartha” embraces failure and makes it his inspiration. https://t.co/mn3VP7glVb

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In an excerpt from his forthcoming book, “Come Back in September,” Darryl Pinckney remembers the writer and critic Elizabeth Hardwick, who showed him that a life of writing was possible. https://t.co/aW0enTbkIj

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When Zadie Smith stumbled upon an extraordinary story from the 19th century, it felt like a once-in-a-lifetime gift from the universe. But it was eight years before she sat down to write her new historical novel, “The Fraud.” https://t.co/Heqm3VV6CM

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On Lewis Carroll’s birthday, revisit Adam Gopnik on how the controversial author of “Alice in Wonderland” inspired the British modernists. https://t.co/xfVvydRONc

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A collection of letters that Kurt Vonnegut wrote to his future wife, Jane Marie Cox, in the twilight of his teens and in his early 20s. https://t.co/Z3Gc5k66xo

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In her début novel, “Nothing Special,” the Irish writer Nicole Flattery appropriates and inverts Andy Warhol’s own novel ambitions. https://t.co/kmXBuZXneu

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Nancy Livingston is the last surviving member of the cast of “Sunset Boulevard.” Her memoir spins tales of (director) Billy Wilder, (husband) Alan Jay Lerner, and (pursuer) Howard Hughes. https://t.co/xmxtPN3AX3

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“Bambi” rendered the Austro-Hungarian writer Felix Salten famous; the movie, which altered and overshadowed its source material, rendered him virtually unknown. https://t.co/LXaJpnWof9

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In his 2019 book “How to Be an Antiracist,” Ibram X. Kendi argues that we should think of “racist” not as a pejorative but as a simple, widely encompassing term of description. https://t.co/FPkL7XDaIB