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Going to Dinner with Your Troll, and Other Tales of Writing Gone Viral

Going to Dinner with Your Troll, and Other Tales of Writing Gone Viral

Courtney Maum on Dealing with Internet Fame

By Courtney Maum | January 9, 2020

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

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

By Literary Hub | January 7, 2020

Learning to Love the Loneliness of Writing After My MFA

By Sean Adams | January 6, 2020

Lynda Barry: A Comic Exercise in Building Character

By Lynda Barry | December 19, 2019

When Your Family Figures Out You're a Writer... and Loves You For It

When Your Family Figures Out You're a Writer... and Loves You For It

Melissa Woods on the Unlikely Intersections of
Child-Rearing and Novel-Writing

By Melissa M. Woods | December 19, 2019

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

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

Is it the Mysterious Work of the Unconscious, or the Mechanized Brain?

By Jim Davies | December 18, 2019

How a Mathematical Model Rescued My Book About Math

How a Mathematical Model Rescued My Book About Math

Ben Orlin Used Calculus to Fix His Floundering Draft

By Ben Orlin | December 17, 2019

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

By Nick Ripatrazone | December 17, 2019

Confessions of an Undercover Novelist

Confessions of an Undercover Novelist

Abigail Hing Wen on Difficult Family Conversations

By Abigail Hing Wen | December 16, 2019

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

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

In Conversation with Will Schwalbe on But That's Another Story

By But That's Another Story | December 16, 2019

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

By Stewart Sinclair | December 12, 2019

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