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“A work of art has never, to my knowledge, displaced another work of art. The living are no more in competition with the dead than they are with the living.”

This week, we’ve unlocked our Art of Fiction interview with Joyce Carol Oates. https://t.co/1WdYreCqmp

“in a world where you are possible
my love
nothing can go wrong for us, tell me”

We’ve unlocked a poem by Frank O’Hara from the archive. https://t.co/6Z9Kinw7Gz

“The veins wrapping his muscles stood up all over his arms and legs. I knew it was supposed to be attractive—that he meant to attract me—but I wasn’t sure what to say.”

From “Two Men, Mary” by Jamie Quatro in our Winter issue. https://t.co/xg1cAcloci

“Reading this astounding, virtuosic book is a sampling of interiority. It is extraordinary because the form partakes of the unjoined nature of human thought. But it needs adding, lest this should confound, that Carson’s trump card is that she is funny.” https://t.co/dNsw12YvZi

“I don’t think there’s any such thing as a good novel that has a weak ending.” —Pat Barker https://t.co/EiJmWYsgOt

“And now we have the phenomenon of the M.F.A. novel, which can often be a beautifully confected product. There are no rough edges.” —Arundhati Roy https://t.co/kuUtlfmjEW

"After all, she says, 'if you can’t find it in three pages, how are you going to do it in 40?'" @MariellaRudi profiled flash fiction star @VenitaBlackburn, who only goes long when it's worth it—like for her first novel, Dead in Long Beach, California https://t.co/4g20hdMfq2

“The fact that something embarrassed me was not a good enough reason to cut it.” —Helen Garner https://t.co/A0zeSYuZ5a

“I wish I could be as free ranging and Dionysian as Ginsberg.” —Henri Cole https://t.co/sELNHkp6LA