• Craft and Advice

    The Writing Life

    How Working at a Grocery Store Helped Me Become a Better Writer

    Karleigh Frisbie Brogan Considers the Benefits and Trade-Offs of a Non-Literary Day Job

     
    By Karleigh Frisbie Brogan  August 11, 2025
    Write-minded

    Maggie Tokuda-Hall and Lee Wind on Championing Marginalized Characters

    By Memoir Nation   August 11, 2025
    On Translation

    The Case for Renaming Kafka’s Metamorphosis as The Transformation

    By Mark Harman  August 8, 2025
    The Craft of Writing

    Jessica Gross on Writing a New York Novel as an Ex-New Yorker

    By Jessica Gross  August 8, 2025
    Am I the Literary Asshole?

    Am I the Literary Asshole For Prioritizing My Writing Over the People in My Life?

    By Kristen Arnett  August 7, 2025
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Chloe Caldwell Is Reading Now, and Next

    By Diana Arterian  August 7, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Awakeners

    Carl Phillips and Aditi Machado Feel Like Radically Different Poets

    By Awakeners   August 7, 2025
    Veterans

    Khadijah Queen on What It’s Like to Write Poetry on a Naval Destroyer

    By Khadijah Queen  August 6, 2025
    Reading Lists

    Doubles, Glitches, Hallucinations, Dreams: Nine Books that Feature David Lynchian Deja Vu

    By Vanessa Roveto  August 6, 2025
    Motherhood

    On the Peace and Pleasure of Reading Books About Babies as a New Mother

    Ellyn Gaydos on William Carlos Williams, Annie Ernaux, and More

    By Ellyn Gaydos  August 11, 2025
    Science fiction

    On the Joy of Building a Sci-Fi World with a Korean Inflection

    By Elaine U. Cho  August 5, 2025
    Autofiction

    How Writers Write Characters Who Are Writers Writing About Themselves; Or, But Is It Autofiction?

    By Megan Cummins  August 5, 2025
    Scandals

    Why a Nineteenth-Century Scandal of Class and Identity Still Speaks to Us

    By Nell Stevens  August 4, 2025
    News and Culture

    A Happy One-Trick Multi-Book Pony: On Writing Novels About Art History

    B.A. Shapiro Follows Her Literary Footsteps Through Storied Museums

    By B.A. Shapiro  August 4, 2025
    literary criticism

    How Witi Ihimaera’s The Whale Rider Helped Introduce Maori Literature to the World

    By Shilo Kino  August 4, 2025
    First Draft

    Ed Park on Trusting the Generative Mind

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   August 4, 2025
    Write-minded

    Jane Alison and Jeannine Ouellette on Craft and Form

    By Memoir Nation   August 4, 2025
    The Craft of Writing

    Aymann Ismail on Asking the Right Questions (at the Right Time)

    “Memoirs ought to interrogate certainties.”

    By Aymann Ismail  August 1, 2025
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Amy Silverberg Is Reading Now, and Next

    By Diana Arterian  August 1, 2025
    Audiobooks

    The Most Anticipated Audiobooks of August

    By AudioFile Magazine  July 31, 2025
    In Conversation

    Form, Method, and Metafiction: Talking Craft and Completion with Ed Park

    By Eric Olson  July 30, 2025
    Storytelling

    The Art of Lying: Kate Weinberg on the Similarities Between Fibs and Fiction

    “Let’s be more honest with ourselves and all those who may learn from us: about the slipperiness of truth, about the wonders of fiction.”

    By Kate Weinberg  July 30, 2025
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Daniel Saldaña Paris is Reading Now, and Next

    By Diana Arterian  July 30, 2025
    Windham-Campbell Prizes

    Roy Williams on Dael Orlandersmith’s Yellowman

    By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast   July 30, 2025
    Folklore

    How Tochi Eze Found Her Writing Voice in Igbo Folklore

    By Tochi Eze  August 5, 2025
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