Leopoldine Core: Nella Larsen’s radical Passing and other influences on When Watched
John Muir, “Yosemite Valley in Flood”
Sarah Pinsker: Octavia Butler, Woody Guthrie, and other classics that inspired my debut
Siri Hustvedt, Deborah Eisenberg, and other contemporary writers read ten stories by Sherwood Anderson
Stephen Crane, “An Episode of War”
Shangyang Fang: Hearing the “meticulous music” in contemporary American poetry
Edith Wharton, “Miss Mary Pask”
Meet S. J. Perelman, the “writer’s writer” who was audacious, original, and funny
Zora Neale Hurston, “John Redding Goes to Sea”
Edgar Allan Poe, “The Oval Portrait”