• Craft and Advice

    Essay

    Why Does Art Happen in Pairs?

    By Drew Nellins Smith  February 12, 2016
    Essay

    What Makes Something Funny?

    By Stuart Evers  February 12, 2016
    Essay

    A Bikini, a Toothbrush, and 44 Issues of The New Yorker

    By Summer Brennan  February 11, 2016
    Advice

    How to Write What You Don’t Know

    By Amy Gustine  February 10, 2016
    Essay

    When a Self-Declared Genius Asks You to Read His Masterpiece

    By Jeff Sharlet  February 4, 2016
    Feature

    Writing, Traveling, and the Creative Act

    By Suzanne Joinson  February 4, 2016
    Feature

    The Rise of the Literary Binge-Read

    By Michael Bourne  February 3, 2016
    Essay

    How I Accidentally Wrote a Civil War Novel

    By Taylor Brown  February 3, 2016
    Essay

    Our Fairy Tales Ourselves: Storytelling From East to West

    By Marie Mutsuki Mockett  January 27, 2016
    Feature

    Surrealism and Decomposition. Or How I Wrote My Novel.

    By Elizabeth McKenzie  January 26, 2016
    Conversations

    Writing Workshops LA: Beware of Dog!

    By Michele Filgate  January 22, 2016
    Advice

    The Importance of Reading While Pregnant

    By Yardenne Greenspan  January 21, 2016
    How to...

    Four Personality Types That Will Derail Your Literary Event

    By Tim Johnson  January 15, 2016
    Essay

    My First Writing Job: Copyboy at the Daily News

    By Warren Adler  January 15, 2016
    Essay

    On Being a Writer Who Can’t Read

    By James Tate Hill  January 12, 2016
    Advice

    How to Live Cheaply and Finish Your Novel

    By Sunil Yapa  January 12, 2016
    Events

    Lit Scene: A Night Out With Irish Women Writers

    By Sarah Davis-Goff  January 11, 2016
    Advice

    Rick Moody, Life Coach: I Need to Learn to Fight

    By Rick Moody  January 11, 2016
    Feature

    How to Write a Book With an Anonymous Private Military Contractor

    By Ralph Pezzullo  January 11, 2016
    Feature

    Where is Wisława Szymborska’s Teeming Crowd?

    By Jonathan Russell Clark  January 8, 2016
    Essay

    How I Gave Up On the Great American Novel and Got a Book Deal

    By Ed Tarkington  January 7, 2016
    Essay

    On Writers, Hoarders, and Their Clutter

    By Barry Yourgrau  January 7, 2016
    Essay

    The Time My Grown-Up Novel Was Marketed As Young Adult

    By Kate Axelrod  January 5, 2016
    Essay

    Noel Coward, Reluctant Screenwriter

    By Barry Day  December 30, 2015
    Essay

    Why I Quit My Job as a Corporate Editor

    By Sarah Knight  December 29, 2015
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