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Narrative Magazine: Diane Middlebrook was a Stanford University professor, poet, critic and biographer. Witty, stylish, and formidably intelligent, Mi...

Narrative Magazine: Ernest Hemingway’s powerful prose changed not only the way we read and write but also the way we perceive ourselves in the world...

Narrative Magazine: Teenagers, with their hormone-fueled imaginations, can find erotic imagery even in the stark, slightly alien environment of a fish...

Narrative Magazine: [link “Narrative Magazine” to http://narrativemagazine.com/] What would you do as a lonely expat in Italy if you accidentally ...

Narrative Magazine: At the heart of Lynn Freed’s essay “The Romance of Elsewhere” lies her lifelong struggle with feeling like a stranger in her...

Narrative Magazine: Most people travel to the grand cities of Europe to see the sights: the ruins, the cathedrals, the art museums. But on a trip to B...

Narrative Magazine: W. S. Merwin, Poet Laureate of the United States, has been writing his widely read poems for five decades. Throughout his poetry r...

Narrative Magazine: Ruth Stone, author of eleven poetry collections, has endured poverty, tragedy, and obscurity to emerge as a preeminent American p...

Narrative Magazine: Apathetic sex, the sloth of creative obsession, a poetic envy of Canada--in the video recorded during Narrative Magazine's event a...

Narrative Magazine: Adam Prince's story "A. Roolette? A. Roolette?" is set during a fiftieth high school reunion, where attending members of the South...

Narrative Magazine: In Skip Horack's startling short story "Borderlands," seventeen-year-old Wes goes bird hunting, stumbles on the bound, mutilated ...

Narrative Magazine: People are talking about Carol Edgarian's big-hearted second novel, Three Stages of Amazement--a love story that begins with a mar...

Reynolds Price, whose novels and stories helped define the voice of contemporary Southern literature, died on January 20, 2011. Narrative Magazine's p...

Narrative Magazine: In spring 1992, in response to Bosnia and Herzegovina's declaration of independence from Yugoslavia, the Yugoslav National Army be...

Narrative Magazine: The January 8, 2011, shooting in front of a grocery store in Tucson, Arizona, in which six people died and thirteen were wounded, ...

Rick Bass is as well-known for his fiction as for his nonfiction books on the environment. His advice to beginning writers crosses genres and speaks t...

In Anthony Marra's story "Granddaughters," more than half a century unfolds in a small town on the Yenisei River in Siberia, beginning at the heyday o...

Narrative Magazine's Friday Feature: "Say Yes" by Tobias Wolff Each of Tobias Wolff's short stories is a tightly woven, tense drama ready for the sta...

Emily Raboteau is a novelist, an award-winning short story writer (Pushcart Prize, Nelson Algren Award), and a professor at City College of New York. ...

Narrative Magazine's Friday Feature: Ann Packer's "Molten" In her gut-wrenching story "Molten," best-selling novelist and award-winning short story w...

Among the contemporary masters of the short story, none surpasses James Salter. We have followed his work for decades and have heard him reading many ...

Poet, author, and screenwriter Barry Gifford has been called the master of the dark side of American reality. His stories take star-crossed, sex-drive...

Narrative Magazine: Tom Grimes, author of the newly released Mentor: A Memoir which traces his long friendship with legendary Iowa Writers' Workshop d...

Narrative Magazine: To celebrate our new iPhone and iPad application, which brings our entire literary library to readers' fingertips for free, we've ...