What Can an Essayist Do in the Face of Massive Tragedy?

What Can an Essayist Do in the Face of Massive Tragedy?

Sonya Bilocerkowycz on Guilt, Ego, and Speculative Nonfiction

By Sonya Bilocerkowycz | January 9, 2020

Ten Writers Reflect on Their First Big YES

Ten Writers Reflect on Their First Big YES

T Kira Madden, Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, and Others
Describe Their Turning Points

By Benjamin Schaefer | January 8, 2020

Chuck Palahniuk on the Importance of Not Boring<br> Your Reader

Chuck Palahniuk on the Importance of Not Boring
Your Reader

The Author of Fight Club Finds Parallels Between Film and Prose

By Chuck Palahniuk | January 8, 2020

What Lotería Means to Me—And My Writing

What Lotería Means to Me—And My Writing

Yvette Benavides on a Childhood Source of Identity,
Freedom, and Creativity

By Yvette Benavides | January 8, 2020

Miranda Popkey: What Happens If You Start Thinking of Your Life as a Narrative?

Miranda Popkey: What Happens If You Start Thinking of Your Life as a Narrative?

Kristin Iversen in Conversation with the Author
of Topics of Conversation

By Kristin Iversen | January 7, 2020

Chuck Palahniuk on His Childhood Love of Ellery Queen and Writing in a Good Mood

Chuck Palahniuk on His Childhood Love of Ellery Queen and Writing in a Good Mood

The Author of Consider This Answers Five Questions From Lit Hub

By Literary Hub | January 7, 2020

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How Do Some Authors “Lose Control” of Their Characters?

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How a Mathematical Model Rescued My Book About Math

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Ben Orlin Used Calculus to Fix His Floundering Draft

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Teaching High Schoolers the Ingenuity and Prowess of Poetry

Teaching High Schoolers the Ingenuity and Prowess of Poetry

Nick Ripatrazone Speaks to Teacher Joel Mayo

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Confessions of an Undercover Novelist

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Abigail Hing Wen on Difficult Family Conversations

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Michael Frank on the Hard Work of Waiting and Making it to the Other Side

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Who Has the Right to Be a Writer?

Who Has the Right to Be a Writer?

Stewart Sinclair on What It Means (and Takes) to Have a Career in Writing

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The Light As She Saw It: On Sitting in Emily Dickinson's Bedroom

The Light As She Saw It: On Sitting in Emily Dickinson's Bedroom

Poetic Power of Place ">Biographer Julie Dobrow on "Footstepping" and the
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