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What my students seek is what I sought: not just a place to publish, of which there remain plenty, but a place to aspire to, the kind of established, vital ecosystem within which a writer can learn, play, feud, create meaning, spark conversation, make sense of herself and her world. Rare by definition, such things grow more elusive by the day.

Michelle Orange • How the Village Voice Met Its Moment

Susanna Moore, author of eleven books, who teaches creative writing at Princeton.

Sara Davidson • The Didion Files

Man V. Nature: Stories

Diane Cook

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Beneath these giants, way down in the understory, her own body seems freakishly small, like one of those acorn-people she made in childhood.

Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel

She had been born a babe out of the darkness out of nothing; she had sparked to first breath and first wonder. As is the truth of all the people who have walked and will walk upon the earth, she returned at last to all she had been before life.

Lauren Groff • The Vaster Wilds: A Novel

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Margaret Atwood • The Testaments: The Sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale

All of these prolific geniuses in devotional service to their craft were monsters . Writer Claire Dederer: “[t]he female writers I know yearn to be more monstrous. They say it in off-hand, ha-ha-ha ways: ‘I wish I had a wife.’ What does that mean, really? It means you wish to abandon the tasks of nurturing in order to perform the selfis