• Craft and Advice

    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
    Residencies

    Swimming Through Writer’s Block at an Icelandic Public Pool

    By Amanda Whiting  November 1, 2019
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Creepy Stories (and More) from Victor LaValle and Benjamin Percy

    By Fiction Non Fiction  October 31, 2019
    5 Books

    Kevin Wilson: I Pretend to Have Read Books All the Time

    By Kevin Wilson  October 31, 2019
    Motherhood

    What I Feel When My Daughter Tells Me She Wants to Be a Writer

    By Cinelle Barnes  October 30, 2019
    Translation

    Reyna Grande on Translating Her Own Book Into Spanish

    By Reyna Grande  October 29, 2019
    News and Culture

    The Media Went Crazy When I Made $20,000 in a Week For Writing

    By Glenn O'Brien  October 25, 2019
    Cartoons

    Six Cartoonists on Critical Failure, One Panel at a Time

    By Bob Eckstein  October 24, 2019
    Craft

    On the Many Different Engines That Power a Short Story

    By Lincoln Michel  October 24, 2019
    Craft

    How Pretending to Be Paul McCartney Helped Me Write My Book

    By Karl Whitney  October 24, 2019
    Teaching High School

    Teaching High School Students the Wildness of Poetry

    By Nick Ripatrazone  October 23, 2019
    Interview

    Poet Diana Khoi Nguyen on Family and Writing a Radical Eulogy for Her Brother

    By Peter Mishler  October 23, 2019
    Trauma

    Panic is Worse Than Pain: How Fiction Failed Me After Trauma

    By Jenn Ashworth  October 18, 2019
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    The Connie Brothers Era: 45 Years at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop

    By Fiction Non Fiction  October 17, 2019
    Work

    How Working the Swing Shift Saved My Writing

    By Anna Maxymiw  October 16, 2019
    Writing Advice

    Demystifying the Writer’s Fear of Failure

    By Sarah LaBrie  October 16, 2019
    The Writing Life

    A Poet’s Case for Wasting Time

    By Kayo Chingonyi  October 10, 2019
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