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At a Stegner Fellow reading on February 6, Jay Deshpande shared an unpublished poem (courtesy of Jay Deshpande).

Stegner fellows Neha Chaudhary-Kamdar and Jay Deshpande entrance and move listeners

Dax Duong
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Feb. 20, 2019
"Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse" demonstrates that some books must be seen on screen (MARK YORK/The Stanford Daily).

Into the Adaptationverse – ‘Spiderverse’ proves that adaptations are necessary

Mark York
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Feb. 19, 2019
Arts & Life
Gustave Flaubert's "Madame Bovary" is one of the most bitter love stories ever written (courtesy of Wikimedia Commons).

Reading between the lines for love

Arts & Life Reads beat writers, Lily Nilipour, Carly Taylor, Scott Stevens, Mark York, Claire Francis and Shana E. Hadi
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Feb. 14, 2019
Dave Hickey writes about art, music and culture honestly and unpretentiously (FRAZER HARRISON/Getty Images).

My summer of Dave Hickey

Ali Vaughan
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Feb. 13, 2019
Joyce Carol Oates is the author of "We Were the Mulvaneys" (courtesy of Wikimedia Commons).

Joyce Carol Oates chronicles the fall of an American family in ‘We Were the Mulvaneys’

Scott Stevens
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Feb. 8, 2019
Maggie Nelson is the acclaimed author of "The Argonauts" and "The Act of Cruelty" (courtesy of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation).

Maggie Nelson shatters categories and defies expectations with new writing

Angela Yang
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Feb. 6, 2019
n "Her Body and Other Parties," Carmen Maria Machado discusses the debilitating effects of trauma on the female psyche (courtesy of Graywolf Press).

‘Her Body and Other Parties’ gives shape to female stories

Shana E. Hadi
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Feb. 4, 2019
In "Call Me By Your Name," director Luca Guadagnino uses visuals, not voiceovers, to convey the characters' complex emotions (courtesy of Mongrel Media and Sony Pictures Classics).

What movies can do that books cannot

Carly Taylor
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Feb. 1, 2019
Arts & Life
Virginia Woolf's "Orlando" complicates genre conventions and conceptions of gender (courtesy of Flickr).

Reading for new beginnings

Arts & Life Reads beat writers, Katherine Silk, Scott Stevens, Carly Taylor, Mark York and Shana E. Hadi
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Jan. 28, 2019
"Less" follows the misadventures of an aging writer (courtesy of Lee Boudreaux).

‘Less’-ons: An interview with Andrew Sean Greer, Part 2

Gracie Newman
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Jan. 24, 2019
Andrew Sean Greer's book "Less" won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (courtesy of Flickr).

‘Less’-ons: An interview with Andrew Sean Greer, Part 1

Gracie Newman
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Jan. 23, 2019
In "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," J.K. Rowling calls attention to her characters' personal problems and not her sweeping story (MARK YORK/The Stanford Daily).

Wizard puberty and other less important matters

Mark York
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Jan. 16, 2019
The Los Angeles Public Library uses Overdrive to make books available online (courtesy of Flickr).

An ode to OverDrive

Shana E. Hadi
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Jan. 11, 2019
At bookstores, customers encounter surfeits of superb stories (TIM FRITZ/Flickr).

Reflections on book selling and book readers

Sofia Schlozman
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Jan. 10, 2019
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A holiday trio of reads

Katherine Silk, Claire Francis and Shana E. Hadi
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Dec. 14, 2018
Virginia Woolf is the author of "Mrs. Dalloway," first published in 1925 (courtesy of Wikimedia Commons).

The bearable heaviness of being: reflections on ‘Mrs. Dalloway’

Carly Taylor
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Dec. 10, 2018
Most people read the 1831 edition of "Frankenstein," but it is not Mary Shelley's original version (courtesy of Wikimedia Commons).

‘Frankenstein’ and its transformations

Shana E. Hadi
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Nov. 29, 2018
As evidenced by this shelf, Dr. Emily Rabiner is an avid reader (courtesy of Emily Rabiner).

Shelf-indulgence: What professors are reading (Part 2)

Claire Francis
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Nov. 28, 2018
Gish Jen, author of "The Girl at the Baggage Claim," recently spoke at Stanford (courtesy of Boston Book Festival).

Gish Jen challenges cultural identities at Lane Lecture Series

Angela Yang
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Nov. 27, 2018
Neil Gaiman is the award-winning author of "The Sandman," "American Gods," "Coraline" and "The Graveyard Book" (STANISLAV LVOVSKY/Flickr).

The stardust surrounding Neil Gaiman

Shana E. Hadi and Claire Francis
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Nov. 16, 2018
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