• Craft and Advice

    Lit Crit

    In Defense of Writing Books That May Never Be Read

    By Mark de Silva  January 27, 2021
    The Writing Life

    Embracing Imperfection: On Writing in a Second Language

    By Kaori Fujimoto  January 27, 2021
    Thresholds

    Margo Jefferson: ‘If I Can’t Find a Way to Do That… Why Am I Writing a Memoir?’

    By Thresholds   January 27, 2021
    Otherppl

    Te-Ping Chen on Finding Moments of Magical Realism in China

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  January 27, 2021
    Literary Criticism

    Joan Didion: Why I Write

    By Joan Didion  January 26, 2021
    Book Origins

    How Do We Write About Political Crisis and Personal Conflict?

    By Carys Davies  January 26, 2021
    So Many Damn Books

    Mateo Askaripour on Sorry to Bother You and Giving Up the Scarcity Mindset

    By So Many Damn Books  January 26, 2021
    The Quarantine Tapes

    What James Baldwin Taught Nikky Finney About the Poet’s Responsibility to the Living

    By The Quarantine Tapes  January 25, 2021
    Literary Tradition

    Writing a Saudi American Novel When No One Has Done It Before

    By Eman Quotah  January 25, 2021
    First Draft

    Peter Ho Davies on Writing a Book That Hovers Between Fiction and Fact

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   January 25, 2021
    Reading Habits

    Why Should We Read Unfinished Novels?

    By Matthew Redmond  January 22, 2021
    Interview with a Poet

    Martín Espada on Framing the Present Through the Lens of the Past

    By Peter Mishler  January 22, 2021
    The Maris Review

    Mateo Askaripour on the Manifest Destiny of Startups

    By The Maris Review  January 21, 2021
    On Grief

    Resisting the Badge of ‘Resilience’ in the Wake of a Devastating Loss

    By Emily Rapp Black  January 20, 2021
    Otherppl

    Rob Doyle: What Happened to Expecting Candor from Writers?

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  January 20, 2021
    Reading Women

    R. F. Kuang: How a Hidden History Became a Fantasy Trilogy

    By Reading Women  January 20, 2021
    On Craft

    25 Essential Notes on Craft from Matthew Salesses

    By Matthew Salesses  January 19, 2021
    First Draft

    Mark Wunderlich on the Resurrecting Powers of Poetry

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   January 19, 2021
    Climate Change

    Writing the Human Element Into Climate Change Via Those Most At Risk

    By Claire Holroyde  January 15, 2021
    New Books Network

    Why Kim Stanley Robinson Wrote a New Cli-Fi Novel… in Which Things Actually Get Better

    By New Books Network  January 15, 2021
    Writing Advice

    In Favor of Speed:
    Write Fast, Fix Later

    By Mateo Askaripour  January 14, 2021
    The Writer's Life

    Caitlin Horrocks on Life in Michigan, the Love of Sleep, and Novels vs. Short Stories

    By Jane Ciabattari  January 14, 2021
    The Maris Review

    George Saunders Wants You to Accept Your Flaws (Writing and Otherwise)

    By The Maris Review  January 14, 2021
    The Craft of Writing

    Danielle Evans on How to Play With Time and Chronology in a Short Story

    By Danielle Evans  January 14, 2021
    On Memoir

    On Putting the Most Vulnerable Parts of Yourself on the Page

    By Justine Cowan  January 14, 2021
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