• Craft and Advice

    Excerpts

    How Alice B. Toklas Found her Voice Through Food

    By Justin Spring  January 18, 2018
    Essay

    I Am Different Now from the Person I Wrote in My Memoir

    By Molly Caro May  January 18, 2018
    Archives

    Read Susan Sontag’s Love Letter to Borges, Written 10 Years After His Death

    By Emily Temple  January 16, 2018
    Essay

    Who Gets to Write About Gentrification?

    By Naima Coster  January 16, 2018
    Advice

    Dear Rick Moody: Half My Family Knows the Truth About Me

    By Rick Moody  January 12, 2018
    Essay

    Do Audio Books Count As Reading?

    By James Tate Hill  January 11, 2018
    Excerpts

    The Child-Poet Genius of Brooklyn

    By Ann Hulbert  January 9, 2018
    Essay

    If It Wasn’t For My Corporate Office Job, I Couldn’t Be a Novelist

    By Jillian Medoff  January 8, 2018
    Essay

    Christopher J. Yates Gave Himself 10 Years to Publish a Novel

    By Christopher J. Yates  January 5, 2018
    Poets

    How Fetishizing ‘Craft’ Can Get in the Way of a Good Poem

    By Michael Bazzett  December 19, 2017
    Deep Dive

    Making the Jump from Stage to Page

    By Kia Corthron  December 15, 2017
    Advice

    20 Questions (And Answers) for the Debut Writer

    By Literary Hub  December 14, 2017
    Advice

    How Important is the First Draft to Your Novel?

    By Sandra Scofield  December 12, 2017
    Advice

    William H. Gass’s Advice for Writers: “You Have to be Grimly Determined.”

    By Emily Temple  December 7, 2017
    Op-Ed

    On Book Publishing’s Drinking Culture

    By Szilvia Molnar  December 6, 2017
    Essay

    The Ghosts of Literary Greatness That Forever Haunt Paris

    By Peter Wortsman  December 5, 2017
    Excerpts

    On Our Love-Hate Relationship with Punctuation

    By Stephen Spector  December 5, 2017
    Events

    Love and Death at the Library with the Astro Poets

    By Kyle Lucia Wu  December 1, 2017
    Deep Dive

    How I Turned My Discarded Novel Drafts Into an AI

    By Kirsten Menger-Anderson  November 30, 2017
    Archives

    Inside Vladimir Nabokov’s Dream Journal

    By Vladimir Nabokov  November 30, 2017
    Essay

    Encountering My Son’s Older Doppelganger

    By Ashley Hay  November 30, 2017
    Advice

    James Salter: Why I Write

    By James Salter  November 29, 2017
    Advice

    5 Reasons Why a Writer Should Move to Tacoma

    By Renee Simms  November 29, 2017
    Essay

    The Dangerous Lure of Writing For White Readers in an MFA

    By Aisha Sabatini Sloan  November 28, 2017
    Feature

    How 11 Writers Organize Their Personal Libraries

    By Emily Temple  November 21, 2017
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