• Craft and Advice

    Writing Advice

    Alice McDermott’s Writing Mantra:
    “Ah, Fuck Em.”

    By Alice McDermott  May 10, 2024
    The Craft of Writing

    Karen Tei Yamashita on Seeking Stories in the Soil

    By Karen Tei Yamashita  May 10, 2024
    Queer Literature

    Sitting at the Cool Table: Christina Cooke and Marissa Higgins on the (Supposed) Renaissance of Queer Lit

    By Christina Cooke  May 10, 2024
    Fatherhood

    A Different Kind of Dad Book: Lucas Mann on Fatherhood, Writing, and the Essay as an Act of Care

    By Brian Gresko  May 9, 2024
    craft advice

    How the Beloved Memory of Dead Pets Can Help Guide the Writing Process

    By Simon Van Booy  May 9, 2024
    Journals

    Why You Should Keep a Garden Journal (Even if You Don’t Have a Garden)

    By Fiona Warnick  May 9, 2024
    The History of Literature

    Sophie Ratcliffe on Loss and Love

    By History of Literature  May 9, 2024
    Abortion Rights

    Punished for Pregnancy: On the Radical Power of The Millstone by Margaret Drabble in a Post-Roe World

    By Carrie Mullins  May 8, 2024
    craft advice

    Writing With “Sprezz.” On the Art of Saying Just Enough

    By Magdalena Zyzak  May 7, 2024
    Motherhood

    A Daughter Becomes a Mother: On Inhabiting Both Roles in Fiction and in Life

    By Heidi Reimer  May 6, 2024
    Memoir

    On Memoir, Permission, and the Thorny Terrain of Writing About Family

    By Jane Wong  May 6, 2024
    First Draft

    Steve Almond on the Magic and the Craft of Storytelling

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   May 6, 2024
    Write-minded

    Claire Jiménez on the Hardest Emotion to Write

    By Write-minded   May 6, 2024
    Am I the Literary Asshole?

    I Don’t Want to Talk to My Coworker About Their Stupid Writing: Am I the Literary Asshole?

    By Kristen Arnett  May 2, 2024
    The History of Literature

    Boel Westin on Tove Jansson

    By History of Literature  May 2, 2024
    Influences

    Hero of a Cult of One: On Loving Cormac McCarthy’s Early Work

    By Jason K. Friedman  May 1, 2024
    Writers in Conversation

    Rachel Khong on the Power and Potential of Not Knowing

    By Nicole Chung  April 30, 2024
    Writers on Writers

    Closing the Literary Circle: Marc Berley on Editing the Work of Gordon Lish

    By Marc Berley  April 29, 2024
    First Draft

    Anne Lamott on Secrets

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   April 29, 2024
    Write-minded

    Elwin Cotman on Creating New Forms

    By Write-minded   April 29, 2024
    The Craft of Writing

    Nell Irvin Painter on Writing About Anything (and Everything)

    By Nell Irvin Painter  April 26, 2024
    The History of Literature

    Gareth Russell on Hampton Court

    By History of Literature  April 25, 2024
    On Reading

    How Music and Verse Can Spark Literary Passion in Reluctant Readers

    By Alicia D. Williams  April 24, 2024
    Relationships

    When Writing Your Novel (Maybe) Manifests Your Breakup

    By Hazel Hayes  April 24, 2024
    The Writing Life

    The Pilgrim’s (Lack of) Progress, Or, Sorry I Took So Long to Finish My Novel, Or, On the Value of Restarting

    By Justin Taylor  April 23, 2024
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