• Craft and Advice

    Diaries

    Reading the Unpublished Novel My Mother Took
    30 Years to Write

    By Caroline Scott  December 5, 2019
    Freeman's

    The Impostor Poets of Iceland Issue a Manifesto

    By Literary Hub  December 4, 2019
    Drafts

    What Your Draft (and Its Problems) Says About You

    By Helen Betya Rubinstein  December 4, 2019
    Quotations

    The Truest Eye: Wisdom and Vision from Toni Morrison

    By Toni Morrison  December 3, 2019
    Debut Novels

    What Was the First Book You Fell in Love With?

    By Literary Hub  December 2, 2019
    Editors

    Lore Segal: A (Complicated) Love Letter to Editors

    By Lore Segal  December 2, 2019
    The Writing Life

    Larry Brown’s Long and Tortured Struggle to Make Himself Into a Writer

    By Jonathan Miles  December 2, 2019
    Writing Life

    How to Throw a Shower for a Novel

    By Caroline Louise Walker  November 27, 2019
    Fiction vs. Nonfiction

    How We See Iran: A Brief History of Fictions at a Distance

    By Ali Araghi  November 26, 2019
    Teaching High School

    Teaching High Schoolers to Talk Equally About Joy and Pain

    By Nick Ripatrazone  November 22, 2019
    News and Culture

    Dorothy Allison on the Necessity of Making Readers Uncomfortable

    By Editors of Garden and Gun   November 22, 2019
    Mythology

    What the Retelling of Myths Reveals of the Teller

    By Jennifer S. Cheng  November 20, 2019
    How to Write

    Why get an MFA when you have free advice from Wikihow’s “How to Write” section?

    By Jonny Diamond  November 18, 2019
    Witches

    In Order to Write, I Had to Break a Family Curse

    By Amanda Yates Garcia  November 15, 2019
    Craft

    Lessons in worldbuilding from N. K. Jemisin (plus a preview of her next book).

    By Aaron Robertson  November 13, 2019
    Love

    Broken Heart? Immanuel Kant is Here to Help

    By Marie Robert  November 13, 2019
    Russian Literature

    The Woman Who Brought Dostoevsky and Chekhov to English Readers

    By Sara Wheeler  November 12, 2019
    Writing Recommendations

    Lydia Davis: Ten of My Recommendations for Good Writing Habits

    By Lydia Davis  November 12, 2019
    Craft

    Kurt Vonnegut’s Advice for the Impatient Writer

    By Suzanne McConnell and Kurt Vonnegut  November 11, 2019
    Satire

    What I Learned From Pretending to Be a Pretentious Lit Bro for 5 Years

    By Dana Schwartz  November 7, 2019
    Capitalism

    Big Data vs. Big Dada: Writing Poetry on Demand at a New Orleans Tech Convention

    By Benjamin Aleshire  November 7, 2019
    Interview

    Rosalie Knecht and Idra Novey on Translation, Writing Tension, and Literary ‘Retrenchment’

    By Brian Gresko  November 6, 2019
    Writing Process

    On the Patchwork Approach to Piecing Together a Book

    By Heather Christle  November 5, 2019
    The Writing Life

    How a Writing Mentor Can Change Your Life

    By Nathan Deuel  November 4, 2019
    Love Stories

    André Aciman Finds His Way Back to His Famous Lovers

    By Brian Gresko  November 1, 2019
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