- Charles Foran explores Munro Country, the area in Southern Ontario that helped forge the Nobel Prize winner’s literary sensibility
- Bert Archer on the places that helped shape other writers, including Hunter S. Thompson, Mary Shelley, and Farley Mowat
- “Most writers are nuts. Some are a bit more cracked than others”: Marion Meade on Lillian Hellman and Dorothy Parker
- “I really don’t see a problem here”: Slavoj Zizek accused of plagiarizing a book review from a “white separatist” journal
- Junot Díaz, Stephen Colbert, and Sherman Alexie: writers who have been influenced by Dungeons & Dragons
- David Mitchell serializes new short story on Twitter
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