• Craft and Advice

    Beyond the Page

    Patrick Radden Keefe on the Fine Line Between Reporting and Storytelling

    By Sun Valley Writers' Conference  September 17, 2021
    Red Ink Series

    Live at the Red Ink Series: On Using Reinvention as a Writing Tool

    By Literary Hub  September 17, 2021
    The Craft of Writing

    Margaret Renkl on Finding Ideas Everywhere

    By Margaret Renkl  September 17, 2021
    The Writing Life

    From Exobiology and Geology to… Writing Fiction?

    By Linda Rui Feng  September 17, 2021
    Book Dreams

    Sanjena Sathian on the Downfalls of Ambition

    By Book Dreams  September 16, 2021
    The Maris Review

    Lauren Groff Knows You’re Getting Her Book Title Wrong

    By The Maris Review  September 16, 2021
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    T. C. Boyle Craves Structure, in Life and on the Page

    By Literary Hub  September 15, 2021
    Ekphrasis

    On the Playwright Sarah Kane and Radical Ekphrasis in Contemporary Poetics

    By Andrea Abi-Karam  September 15, 2021
    The Body

    Writing a Novel Through Illness: On the Inseparability of Body and Mind

    By Cai Emmons  September 15, 2021
    Literary Criticism

    Colson Whitehead: Why a Heist Novel Was the Best Way to Tell the Story of New York

    By Dwyer Murphy  September 14, 2021
    The Writing Life

    “Maybe More People Should Have Writer’s Block.” In Which Joy Williams Responds to Our Questions Via Typewriter

    By Joy Williams  September 14, 2021
    Science Writing

    Mary Roach on Finding What’s Weird and Wild in Science Stories

    By Corinne Segal  September 14, 2021
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

    By Teddy Wayne  September 14, 2021
    So Many Damn Books

    Julie Shapiro and Claire Boyle on Reversing Roles for the 64th Issue of McSweeney’s

    By So Many Damn Books  September 14, 2021
    Writing Life

    Some Life Lessons (Read: Humiliations) From Playing Music

    By Emily Itami  September 13, 2021
    Otherppl

    Anna Qu Talks Betrayal, Immigration, and Assimilation

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  September 13, 2021
    First Draft

    “Profoundly, Deeply, Centrally Sensual.” Robert Olen Butler on the Kinesthetic Experience of Writing

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   September 13, 2021
    Family History

    Triumph and Tragedy: On Being a Mets Fan… and Being a Mankiewicz

    By Nick Davis  September 13, 2021
    The Craft of Writing

    Jai Chakrabarti on How to Get Unstuck While Writing

    By Jai Chakrabarti  September 10, 2021
    WWII

    How the History of German-Jewish Refugee Soldiers During WWII Shaped My Novel

    By Ellen Feldman  September 10, 2021
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Tolstoy Forever: Brigid Hughes and Yiyun Li on Retweeting a Russian Classic

    By Fiction Non Fiction  September 9, 2021
    California

    Falling in Love with Instant Anonymity: How I Became a Perpetual Student of LA

    By María Amparo Escandón  September 9, 2021
    In Conversation

    Lauren Groff and Rebecca Makkai Talk Literary Ethics, the Loneliness of Bodies, and Writerly Friendship

    By Rebecca Makkai  September 8, 2021
    Thresholds

    Alexandra Kleeman on the Artificial Boundary Between the Natural and Man-Made

    By Thresholds   September 8, 2021
    Writers on Writers

    Hilma Wolitzer on the Catharsis of Writing Through Grief

    By Jane Ciabattari  September 7, 2021
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