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bust of Isaac Newton in front of bookshelves at Trinity Library
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Alternate History

Writing the Speculative Into Real History

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writers on writing

How Chronic Pain Made Me a Better Writer

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Detail from the cover of Titus Groan
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Gormenghast

The Great Intangibles of Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast Series

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forest with fog rising above the trees
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forests

The Enduring Appeal of Magnificent Trees and Fantasy Forests

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Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) holds up a three-fingered salute in The Hunger Games
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Politics

All Insurrections Are Not Created Equal: On Writing Resistance After January 6th

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Covers of 10 literary fiction titles, recommended by Charlie Jane Anders
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literary fiction

10 Literary Books That Made Me a Better Science Fiction Writer

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Images from three movies that depict the creative process: Wildcat, Whisper of the Heart, and Tick Tick Boom
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creativity

7 Performances That Bring the Creative Process to Life

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Photograph of an open book with two pages positioned to form a heart
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cozy fantasy

The Rise of Cozy Fantasy

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Painting of a man sitting at a desk, bent over a pile of papers and books, writing on one of the papers
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Mark as Read

To Write or Not to Write (In Your Books)

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author Clare Beams and the cover of her recent novel The Garden
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interview

Something Strange Is in The Garden: A Conversation With Clare Beams

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the Marina Bay Sands Hotel in Singapore
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architecture

Arkady Martine in Singapore: On Sci-Fi City Planning and What Makes a “City of the Future”

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book culture

Prestige Creates a Permission Structure for Experimentation

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“There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.”

C.S. Lewis, The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader

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