"Structure is Everything." Keith O'Brien on Structuring a Nonfiction Narrative

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"I Guess This is What I'm Writing About." Aimee Bender on Surrendering to the Material

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Rebecca Kauffman on Turning to Historical Fiction During the Chaos of 2020

Rebecca Kauffman on Turning to Historical Fiction During the Chaos of 2020

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Sarah Manguso on Getting on the Freeway, aka Writing a Novel

Sarah Manguso on Getting on the Freeway, aka Writing a Novel

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Douglas Stuart on Masculinity and the Long Literary Tradition of the Gang Novel

Douglas Stuart on Masculinity and the Long Literary Tradition of the Gang Novel

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Jacquelyn Mitchard on Hiding Mysteries in Plain Sight

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Why Having a Baby Led Evie Wyld to More Perilous Stories

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Lan Samantha Chang on Teaching, Tone, and Literary Generations

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How the “Tiger Lady” Profoundly Changed Susan Orlean

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Charlotte Wood on Exploring the Longevity of Female Friendship

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Anahid Nersessian’s Close Reading of Keats’s “Ode on a Grecian Urn”

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“Secrets Really Power a Book.” A Conversation with Steven Schwartz

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Peter Ho Davies on Why We Fear Revision (and How to Get Over It)

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Peter Ho Davies on Encouraging Readers to Read Between the Lines

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“A Kind of Clash.” Tom Bissell on the Structure of His Short Stories

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