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Finding Your Way Into Writing Fiction as J.R.R. Tolkien's Grandson

Finding Your Way Into Writing Fiction as J.R.R. Tolkien's Grandson

Simon Tolkien on the Double-Edged Sword of a Mighty Literary Inheritance

By Simon Tolkien | May 29, 2025

My Workshop Friend Stole the Plot for a Story I Never Got Around to Writing: Am I the Asshole?

My Workshop Friend Stole the Plot for a Story I Never Got Around to Writing: Am I the Asshole?

Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior

By Kristen Arnett | May 29, 2025

The Likability Trap: Why We Need More

The Likability Trap: Why We Need More "Nasty" Female Protagonists

Laura Leffler Considers the Faulty Logic Behind Gendered Expectations of Goodness in Fiction

By Laura Leffler | May 29, 2025

On Morals, Ethics, and Writing a Novel Inspired by a Story Ripped-From-the-Headlines

On Morals, Ethics, and Writing a Novel Inspired by a Story Ripped-From-the-Headlines

Darrow Farr on Patty Hearst, Exploitation, and Writing Other People's Traumas

By Darrow Farr | May 29, 2025

Eight Books that Feature Wine in All Its Facets (and Flavor Notes)

Eight Books that Feature Wine in All Its Facets (and Flavor Notes)

Rochelle Dowden-Lord Recommends Peter Hellman, Jilly Cooper, Bianca Bosker, and More

By Rochelle Dowden-Lord | May 28, 2025

How Curtis Sittenfeld's

How Curtis Sittenfeld's "American Wife" Imbues Even Its Ugliest Characters with Nuance

Jessica Stanley on Political Fiction, Conservative Characters, and Curiosity

By Jessica Stanley | May 28, 2025

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20 Years of Getting Lost: Rebecca Solnit on the Creative Process of Finding Yourself

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Crafting from of a Creator's Rib: Nicola Dinan on Writing Characters Based on Herself

By Nicola Dinan | May 27, 2025

Spring Ulmer on Political Poetry, Personification, and Translating as Gardening

Spring Ulmer on Political Poetry, Personification, and Translating as Gardening

The Author of "Phantom Number: An Abecedarium for April" in Conversation with Poets.org

By Literary Hub | May 27, 2025

Vauhini Vara on Where Self Meets Technology

Vauhini Vara on Where Self Meets Technology

From the Memoir Nation Podcast, Hosted by Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner

By Memoir Nation | May 26, 2025

What You See Is What You Get: The Optical Illusions That Shape Fiction—and Ourselves

What You See Is What You Get: The Optical Illusions That Shape Fiction—and Ourselves

T.J. Martinson Explores the Narrative Role of Sight on the Page and in the Real World

By T.J. Martinson | May 23, 2025

Richard Russo on Words and Their Arrangement

Richard Russo on Words and Their Arrangement

Considering Townes Van Zandt's "Pancho and Lefty"

By Richard Russo | May 23, 2025

None of Your Business: Why Writers Shouldn't Feel Obligated to Share Too Much

None of Your Business: Why Writers Shouldn't Feel Obligated to Share Too Much

Debbie Urbanski on the Invasive Expectations of Book Publicity and Their Unintended Consequences

By Debbie Urbanski | May 22, 2025

The Annotated Nightstand: What Alison Bechdel Is Reading Now, and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Alison Bechdel Is Reading Now, and Next

Featuring Sarah Schulman, Urvashi Vaid, Joan Didion, and Others

By Diana Arterian | May 22, 2025

Writing Towards the Future: Searching for Realism In an Increasingly Surreal World

Writing Towards the Future: Searching for Realism In an Increasingly Surreal World

Fred Lunzer on the Impact of Contemporary Problems on Literary and Science Fiction

By Fred Lunzer | May 21, 2025

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