• Craft and Advice

    Craft

    Hilary Mantel on How Writers Learn to Trust Themselves

    By Hilary Mantel  October 27, 2020
    So Many Damn Books

    Revisiting the Perennially Creepy House of Leaves

    By So Many Damn Books  October 27, 2020
    Children's Literature

    A Book to Conjure Nature, When We
    Need It Most

    By Jonny Diamond  October 26, 2020
    First Draft

    Bill Clegg on the Unknowability of… Well, Everything

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   October 26, 2020
    Music

    On the Event That Brought Me Back to Writing After 30 Years

    By Robert Duncan  October 23, 2020
    The Literary Life

    Jill McCorkle on the Voice She Channels When It’s Time to Write a Rant

    By The Literary Life  October 23, 2020
    NewberyTart

    Adam Gidwitz’s Dream Job: Getting Heckled by Second Graders

    By NewberyTart   October 23, 2020
    New Books Network

    Eshkol Nevo on Writing a Novel in Questions

    By New Books Network  October 23, 2020
    Workshop

    The Case Against Critical Feedback

    By Lauren D. Woods  October 22, 2020
    The Writing Life

    Against the Muse Myth: On Motherhood and the Writing Life

    By Molly Spencer  October 22, 2020
    The Maris Review

    Rumaan Alam on the Psychic Usefulness of a Tangible Disaster

    By The Maris Review  October 22, 2020
    Climate Crisis

    The Moment My Poetry Students and I Could No Longer Ignore the Climate Crisis

    By Craig Santos Perez  October 22, 2020
    Reading Lists

    Where Do Reading Lists Come From? (And Why Do We Love Them?)

    By William Germano and Kit Nicholls  October 21, 2020
    WMFA

    Jami Attenberg: Your Politics Are Always Going to Show Up in the Work

    By WMFA   October 21, 2020
    Gender and Politics

    On Beauty, Sexual Violence, and Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye

    By Kanako Nishi  October 20, 2020
    Audiobooks

    In Conversation with Actress and Audiobook Narrator Yetide Badaki

    By Traci Currie  October 20, 2020
    Discovering Old Manuscripts

    How a Rare and Ancient Manuscript Moved Me to Write a Novel

    By Natalka Burian  October 19, 2020
    Diaries

    Ricardo Piglia’s Alter Ego on Epidemics of Violence in Argentina

    By Ricardo Piglia  October 19, 2020
    First Draft

    Claire Messud on Chekhov’s Best Advice

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   October 19, 2020
    Young Adult

    Cory Doctorow: Kids Use Reason, Adults Rationalize

    By Cory Doctorow  October 19, 2020
    Short Stories

    A Way to Beat Mortality

    By Shelly Oria  October 19, 2020
    On Craft

    How to Write a Sci-Fi Rock ‘N’ Roll Novel in Rhyming Couplets

    By Jason Guriel  October 19, 2020
    How to Proceed

    George Saunders: Everyone Wants to Be Loved. What Do We Do with That?

    By How to Proceed   October 16, 2020
    On Craft

    How to Write? Don’t… At Least Not Yet

    By Johanna Hedva  October 16, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    The Spontaneous Quarantine Writing that Became a Hit in Japan

    By Barry Yourgrau  October 16, 2020
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