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    Luis Alberto Urrea

    Luis Alberto Urrea: Tijuana Book of the Dead, and The Water Museum · 3 episodes

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    Lydia Millet

    Lydia Millet: Fight No More · 3 episodes

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    Lynne Tillman

    Lynne Tillman: Men and Apparitions · 3 episodes

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    Maggie Nelson

    Maggie Nelson: The Argonauts · 2 episodes

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    Margot Livesey

    Margot Livesey: “The Boy in the Field” · 2 episodes

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    Mark Leyner

    Mark Leyner · Jan 1993

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    Mark de Silva

    Mark de Silva: Square Wave · Feb 2016

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    Matthew Zapruder

    Matthew Zapruder and Joshua Beckman · May 2005

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    Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

    Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore: “The Freezer Door” · Dec 2020

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    Mira Gonzalez

    Mira Gonzalez and Tao Lin: Selected Tweets · Aug 2015

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    Naeem Murr

    Naeem Murr · Aug 2007

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    Nicholas Meyer

    Nicholas Meyer · Mar 1993

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    Nick Flynn

    Nick Flynn: The Reenactments · Feb 2013

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    Ottessa Moshfegh

    Ottessa Moshfegh: Homesick for Another World (Part II) · 2 episodes

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    Paul Muldoon

    Paul Muldoon and special guests, Sparks · Sep 2010

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    Paul Theroux

    Paul Theroux · Jan 1997

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    Paul Tran

    Paul Tran’s wildly impressive debut poetry book, ‘All the Flowers Kneeling’ · Mar 2022

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    Pauline Kael

    Pauline Kael · 2 episodes

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    Peter Orner

    Peter Orner: Maggie Brown & Others · 3 episodes

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    Philip Levine

    Philip Levine · Jan 2007

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    Rebecca Solnit

    Rebecca Solnit: Recollections of My Nonexistence · 3 episodes

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    Rita Bullwinkel

    Rita Bullwinkel: Belly Up · Jun 2018

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    Rob Doyle

    Rob Doyle: Threshold · Apr 2020

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    Sarah Manguso

    Sarah Manguso’s ‘Very Cold People’ and life’s overwhelming small moments · Feb 2022

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    Sarah Rose Etter

    Sarah Rose Etter: The Book of X · Aug 2019

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    Scott McClanahan

    Scott McClanahan: The Sarah Book / Crapalachia: A Biography of Place · Feb 2018

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    Shauna Barbosa

    Shauna Barbosa: Cape Verdean Blues · May 2018

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    Stuart Dybek

    Stuart Dybek · Feb 2004

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    Susan Choi

    Susan Choi · Jan 2004

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    Susan Straight

    Susan Straight: Take One Candle Light a Room · 4 episodes

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    T.C. Boyle

    TC Boyle: The Terranauts · 10 episodes

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    Tao Lin

    Tao Lin’s ‘Leave Society’ shifts the author’s perspective to love and kindness · 3 episodes

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    Terry Tempest Williams

    Terry Tempest Williams · Oct 1996

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    Tessa Hadley

    Tessa Hadley: “Free Love” · 2 episodes

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    Thomas McGuane

    Thomas McGuane: Crow Fair · 2 episodes

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    Tim O'Brien

    Tim O---Brien · 2 episodes

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    Tommy Orange

    Tommy Orange: There There · Oct 2018

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    Toni Morrison

    Toni Morrison: Beloved · 4 episodes

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    Valeria Luiselli

    Valeria Luiselli: Lost Children Archive · 3 episodes

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    Viet Thanh Nguyen

    Viet Thanh Nguyen: “The Committed” · Mar 2021

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