• Craft and Advice

    First Draft

    Anna Noyes on Knowing When to Give Up

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   December 9, 2024
    Write-minded

    Faith Adiele on Hybrid Writing for Hybrid Lives

    By Write-minded   December 9, 2024
    The Craft of Writing

    Pilgrimage: Beowulf Sheehan on Author Photos and the Search for Home

    By Beowulf Sheehan  December 6, 2024
    Ghosts!

    Seeing Life Through the Eyes of the Dead: A Short Handbook for Writing Ghosts

    By Muriel Leung  December 5, 2024
    Behind the Mic

    Julia Whelan and the Best Fiction Audiobooks of 2024

    By Behind the Mic   December 5, 2024
    Am I the Literary Asshole?

    I Don’t Want to Read Anymore: Am I the Literary Asshole?

    By Kristen Arnett  December 4, 2024
    Historical Fiction

    Tired of Today’s Tech: Writing Historical Fiction in a Technocratic American Present

    By John Brandon  December 4, 2024
    Surrealism

    The Craft of Surrealism: On Accessing the Unconscious in Our Fiction

    By Anita Felicelli  December 4, 2024
    Acting

    Method Writing: What Novelists Can Learn From Actors About Self-Expression

    By Eliza Moss  December 4, 2024
    On Reading

    Reading With My Past Self: A Year of Revisiting Books

    By Angela Baggetta  December 3, 2024
    Queer Sex

    Why We Need More Queer Sex in Climate Fiction; Or, on Rereading Rachel Carson

    By Gabrielle Korn  December 3, 2024
    In Conversation

    Anita Felicelli on Crafting a Collection of Existential Speculative Short Stories

    By Jane Ciabattari  December 3, 2024
    Awakeners

    Rick Barot & Brian Teare Remind Each Other to Look Again

    By Awakeners   December 3, 2024
    New Books Tuesdays

    Gay Talese! Gabrielle Korn! Poets respond to Taylor Swift 23 new books out today.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  December 3, 2024
    I'm a Writer But

    Nayantara Roy on the “Badge of Honor” That Inspired Her Debut Novel

    By I'm a Writer But   December 3, 2024
    Poetry

    Some of Our Favorite Poetry Collections of the Year

    By David Woo  December 2, 2024
    Write-minded

    Jeannine Ouellette on Bringing Attention, Playfulness, and Surprise to Your Writing

    By Write-minded   December 2, 2024
    Interviews

    Writing Advice, Book Recommendations, and More from the Newest Literary MacArthur Fellows

    By Emily Temple  November 27, 2024
    Criticism

    In Praise of the Literary and Social Subversions of George Gissing’s The Odd Women

    By Literary Hub  November 27, 2024
    The Craft of Writing

    Samina Ali on Writing Through the Fear

    By Samina Ali  November 27, 2024
    New Books Tuesdays

    Orhan Pamuk! Birth control in America! A history of beer! 11 new books out today.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  November 26, 2024
    In Conversation

    Werner Herzog on Memory, the Elusiveness of Truth, and Sleepwalking Into New Wars

    By Aysegul Sert  November 25, 2024
    Write-minded

    Emily Witt on Drug Stories

    By Write-minded   November 25, 2024
    The Craft of Writing

    Let Them Talk: Maya Kessler on the Power of Dialogue

    By Maya Kessler  November 22, 2024
    In Conversation

    Diverting Diversions: Mark Haber on Distractions, Literary Digressions, and the Possibilities of Fiction

    By Brian Castleberry  November 22, 2024
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