• Craft and Advice

    Folklore

    On the Lies We Tell in Fiction

    By Ruth Gilligan  November 10, 2020
    First Draft

    Bryan Washington on Giving His Characters the Capacity for Love, Even When They Don’t Have the Language for It

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   November 9, 2020
    Book Able

    Karen Russell on Fatal Insomnia and the Demons of Our Dreams

    By Bookable   November 6, 2020
    Craft

    Sandra Cisneros on the Me Too Movement, Narrative Voice, and The House on Mango Street

    By Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera  November 6, 2020
    Poetry

    Elisa Wouk Almino on Beloved Brazilian Poet
    Ana Cristina Cesar

    By Elisa Wouk Almino  November 6, 2020
    Craft

    In Praise of Bob Dylan’s Narrative Strategies…
    and His Verbs

    By Tony Conniff  November 6, 2020
    New Books Network

    P. Djèlí Clark Imagines the Monstrous Creation of the Second Ku Klux Klan

    By New Books Network  November 6, 2020
    Teaching High School

    The High School Teacher Who Changed Kaveh Akbar’s Life

    By Nick Ripatrazone  November 5, 2020
    On Craft

    Colm Tóibín: How Rules of Craft Inhibit Creativity

    By Literary Hub  November 4, 2020
    Reading Women

    K-Ming Chang on Storytelling as Her Greatest Inheritance

    By Reading Women  November 4, 2020
    WMFA

    Deesha Philyaw: Publishing Is Not What You Want Driving Your Self-Worth

    By WMFA   November 4, 2020
    Otherppl

    Sebastian Castillo on the Pleasures of Reading Fiction in Translation

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  November 4, 2020
    Reading Lists

    The Artist and The Audience: Writing About the Complexity of Creating Art

    By Scott O’Connor  November 2, 2020
    First Draft

    Ken Bonert: The Regional Is Universal

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   November 2, 2020
    How to Proceed

    Good News: Mary Ruefle Can’t Keep Up with All the Books Being Published, Either

    By How to Proceed   October 30, 2020
    Shirley Jackson

    Read Shirley Jackson’s Eerily Contemporary Letter About Fear

    By Literary Hub  October 30, 2020
    Work Diaries

    The Weird Underbelly of Tech Writing in Silicon Valley

    By Lulu Dewey  October 29, 2020
    The Maris Review

    David Goodwillie on the Tricky Intersection of Art and Commerce

    By The Maris Review  October 29, 2020
    The Writing Life

    What Passes For Love: On the Marriage of Leonard and Virginia Woolf

    By Beth Kephart  October 28, 2020
    Advice

    Baba Yaga Will Answer Your Questions About Life, Love, and Belonging

    By Taisia Kitaiskaia  October 28, 2020
    Lit Century

    On the Fine Line Between Antagonist and Love Interest in Nella Larsen’s Passing

    By Lit Century   October 28, 2020
    WMFA

    R. O. Kwon on Keeping Faith in the Writing Process

    By WMFA   October 28, 2020
    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
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