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The Grind
Empty plaza with dark green fountain structure in the middle, trees on both sides of the image.

Geography of My Heart: The Stanford Bookstore

Dan Kubota
  •  
Oct. 22, 2024
The Grind
a graphic of colorful journals stacked inside of a desk drawer

Inside the Junk Drawer: My journals

Kaylee Chan
  •  
Oct. 1, 2024
Arts & Life
Burtner and Yilmaz recommend books for students in different majors. (Graphic: DA-HEE KIM/The Stanford Daily)

What to read this summer, based on your major

Cate Burtner and Leyla Yilmaz
  •  
June 5, 2024
The Grind
Heart-shaped pages of a book

Why do I need to explain my writing?

Gheed El Bizri
  •  
June 15, 2023
Reads
A closed-up shot of poet Mary Ruefle giving a reading against the background of dark curtains

Pulitzer Prize-Finalist Mary Ruefle enlightens with reading of snow-day inspired poetry

Ellen Abraham
  •  
March 5, 2023
Reads
The two stegner fellows laugh in conversation in a brightly lit room

Zombie apocalypse and epistolary poetry enlighten at Stegner Fellow reading

Ellen Abraham
  •  
Feb. 9, 2023
Reads
A woman having a conversation with a man in an auditorium.

Pulitzer Prize finalist Elif Batuman talks novels, sexuality and inspiration

Ellen Abraham
  •  
Feb. 5, 2023
Arts & Life
Person in gray sweater sits next to person in blue jacket holding a microphone.

Poetry and prose at first Stegner Fellow reading of the academic year

Elisabeth Westermann
  •  
Nov. 27, 2022
Reads
Over a faint backdrop of open books, the text: "lately in LITERATURE with Leyla Yilmaz." "Literature" is stylized in multiple fonts over red, green, and pink rectangles, as in a collage made from magazines.

Lately in Literature: ‘Can women kill?’ asks Eliza Clark in debut novel, ‘Boy Parts’

Leyla Yilmaz
  •  
Oct. 11, 2022
The Grind
Shot of writer writing with one hand and a mug in the other

How to stay inspired as a writer

Gheed El Bizri
  •  
May 15, 2022
The Grind
A room filled will stacks of books, some in focus while others are not.

Untranslatable: ‘Tsundoku’

From the Community
  •  
April 21, 2022
Local
Three rows of a bookshelf, stacked full of books.

How local bookstores have survived the pandemic

Karina Aronson
  •  
Aug. 19, 2021
Arts & Life
A graphic with a silhouette of a person speaking into a microphone, letters floating in the air like smoke

Undergraduate storytellers shine at Levinthal Reading

Rosana Maris Arias
  •  
May 20, 2021
Arts & Life
left: headshot of Richie Hofmann; right: cover of "Second Empire"

Poetry in Conversation: Richie Hofmann on ‘Second Empire’ and growing as a poet

Kyla Figueroa
  •  
May 6, 2021
Arts & Life
Screenshots of readers on zoom: Andrew Goulet (left), Michelle Robinson (middle) and Héctor Hoyos (right).

Literary scholars draw parallels between crime fiction, current events

Jed Ngalande
  •  
May 2, 2021
Arts & Life
Cathy Park Hong reading on Zoom

Cathy Park Hong on ethical storytelling and her ‘accidental’ writing process

Jared Klegar
  •  
April 29, 2021
Arts & Life
Lauren Clark ‘20 (left) and Emily Layden ‘11 (right) in Zoom

Emily Layden ’11 discusses the importance of the feminine perspective in literature

Jed Ngalande
  •  
April 15, 2021
Opinions
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Opinion | Can we read historical texts meaningfully?

Kamil Aftyka
  •  
April 5, 2021
Kindle version of Michel de Montaigne's "Essays" on top of a pile of books

Classics for quarantine: Reading in Michel de Montaigne’s ‘Essays’

Lily Nilipour
  •  
March 10, 2021
headshots of Stegner Fellows F.T. Kola and Jim Whiteside

An intimate Stegner Fellows reading with Jim Whiteside and F.T. Kola

Ellie Wong
  •  
March 1, 2021
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