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What It's Like to Be On A Book Prize Committee
First Person

What It's Like to Be On A Book Prize Committee

Megan Kate Nelson pulls back the curtain in our debut "first person" column

By Megan Kate Nelson
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A New Debs For a New Era
Book Reviews

A New Debs For a New Era

This New Biography Contextualizes America’s Socialist Past Within Its New Socialist Moment

By Shaun Richman
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Q & A with writer and coach Helen Betya Rubinstein
Craft Essays

Q & A with writer and coach Helen Betya Rubinstein

You might not agree with every take on writing and education in her provocative new craft book, but she'll certainly make you think

By Kate Carpenter
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Q & A with Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Marcia Chatelain

Q & A with Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Marcia Chatelain

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Soyica Diggs Colbert Writes the History of Icons Through Their Friendships

Soyica Diggs Colbert Writes the History of Icons Through Their Friendships

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What It's Like to Be On A Book Prize Committee

Megan Kate Nelson pulls back the curtain in our debut "first person" column

By Megan Kate Nelson
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A New Debs For a New Era

This New Biography Contextualizes America’s Socialist Past Within Its New Socialist Moment

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Durba Mitra On Doing Feminist History Now

Durba Mitra On Doing Feminist History Now

Episode 120 of the Drafting the Past podcast

By Kate Carpenter
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Q & A with writer and coach Helen Betya Rubinstein

Q & A with writer and coach Helen Betya Rubinstein

You might not agree with every take on writing and education in her provocative new craft book, but she'll certainly make you think

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10 New Books We Want to Read This November

10 New Books We Want to Read This November

Snails, telephones, musical theater, and other subjects that caught our attention

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An Incomplete Guide to the Female Monster

An Incomplete Guide to the Female Monster

A new but limited history of the women who have always terrified men

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Soyica Diggs Colbert Writes the History of Icons Through Their Friendships

Episode 119 of the Drafting the Past podcast with the author of Freedom's Gate

By Kate Carpenter
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Getting Through Getting Stuck

Getting Through Getting Stuck

Struggling to write that history project? One of these ideas might help

By Megan Kate Nelson
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Mining the Past for New Material

Mining the Past for New Material

A new book from a prolific popular historian takes readers to the gold camps of California, but not much farther

By Megan Kate Nelson
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Shane White Is An Avowed Completist

Shane White Is An Avowed Completist

Episode 118 of the Drafting the Past podcast

By Kate Carpenter
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