• Craft and Advice

    LGBTQ Stories

    The Wrong Story: Jeremy Atherton Lin on Writing Love and Politics

    By Jeremy Atherton Lin  June 5, 2025
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Kate Briggs Is Reading Now, and Next

    By Diana Arterian  June 5, 2025
    Speeches

    Ocean Vuong: “This is where we must always return… pure possibility undergirded by pure humility.”

    By Ocean Vuong  June 4, 2025
    In Conversation

    Melissa Febos on the Unexpected Joys, Discoveries, and Sexiness of Celibacy

    By Sarah Viren  June 4, 2025
    Fact vs. Fiction

    Novelist’s Nonfiction: Writing Across the Gaps in the Record

    By Aidan Ryan  June 4, 2025
    Historical Fiction

    Learning Luxury: Exploring the History and Practice of High-End Hospitality

    By Maggie Stiefvater  June 4, 2025
    Windham-Campbell Prizes

    Tongo Eisen-Martin on Ayi Kwei Armah’s The Healers

    By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast   June 4, 2025
    Thresholds

    Lisa Ko on Destroying Her Diaries

    By Thresholds   June 4, 2025
    The Critic and Her Publics

    Yahdon Israel on The Critic and Her Publics

    By The Critic and Her Publics   June 3, 2025
    In Conversation

    Susan Choi on Writing a Cross-Cultural Story of Mystery and Tragedy

    By Jane Ciabattari  June 3, 2025
    First Draft

    Madeleine Thien on Writing a Love for This World

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   June 2, 2025
    Write-minded

    Elissa Altman on Permission

    By Memoir Nation   June 2, 2025
    Bugs

    In Praise of Poetry About Bugs

    By Hannah Brooks-Motl  June 2, 2025
    Literary Criticism

    Laura Rossi and Jo Reed on Recent Earphones Award Winners

    By Behind the Mic   May 30, 2025
    The Craft of Writing

    Anna Mitchael on the Lessons of Ghostwriting

    By Anna Mitchael  May 30, 2025
    Anniversary

    Rebecca Solnit on Her Most Beloved Objects

    By Rebecca Solnit  May 29, 2025
    On Poetry

    Death, Desire, and the Poetics of the Automobile

    By Rosie Stockton  May 29, 2025
    Legacies

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

    By Simon Tolkien  May 29, 2025
    Am I the Literary Asshole?

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

    By Kristen Arnett  May 29, 2025
    Unlikable Women

    The Likability Trap: Why We Need More “Nasty” Female Protagonists

    By Laura Leffler  May 29, 2025
    Writing Trauma

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

    By Darrow Farr  May 29, 2025
    Wine

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

    By Rochelle Dowden-Lord  May 28, 2025
    Character Studies

    How Curtis Sittenfeld’s “American Wife” Imbues Even Its Ugliest Characters with Nuance

    By Jessica Stanley  May 28, 2025
    Storms

    Writing the Wind: Capturing the Sensation of Life’s Many Storms

    By Catherine Bush  May 28, 2025
    Anniversaries

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

    By Rebecca Solnit  May 27, 2025
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