How Thoreau (And My Father) Taught Me That Literature is a Public Good

How Thoreau (And My Father) Taught Me That Literature is a Public Good

"This Function is as Vital as Air, as Vital as Water"

By Kristen Case | July 12, 2017

Spider-Man Taught Me How to Live, Comics Taught Me How to Write

Spider-Man Taught Me How to Live, Comics Taught Me How to Write

Nikesh Shukla on the Dual Life of an Immigrant Son in North West London

By Nikesh Shukla | July 12, 2017

So You've Decided to Write: Advice from a Great and Notorious Editor

So You've Decided to Write: Advice from a Great and Notorious Editor

Introducing a New Summer Series on Writing from Terry McDonell

By Terry McDonell | July 11, 2017

Why E.B. White Was Wrong About (Some of) the Elements of Style

Why E.B. White Was Wrong About (Some of) the Elements of Style

Lovers of the Passive Voice Unite

By A. L. Kennedy | July 11, 2017

How to Be a Writer on Social Media: Advice from Roxane Gay, Alexander Chee, Celeste Ng, and Adam M. Grant

How to Be a Writer on Social Media: Advice from Roxane Gay, Alexander Chee, Celeste Ng, and Adam M. Grant

Ask the Publicists, a Regular Advice Column from Broadside PR

By Literary Hub | July 10, 2017

8 Famous Writers Writing About Not Writing

8 Famous Writers Writing About Not Writing

Turns Out Nobody is Working Right Now

By Emily Temple | July 10, 2017

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If Consciousness Isn't A Stream, How Do We Represent It?

By David Letzler | July 10, 2017

I Walked Across Europe To Understand My Character

By Jason Hewitt | July 7, 2017

How A Reader's Feminist Critique Changed My Sci-Fi Novel

By Daniel Price | July 6, 2017

I Bought Sam Shepard's Clothes Off the Internet

I Bought Sam Shepard's Clothes Off the Internet

John Winters on What It Takes to Write an Unauthorized Biography

By John Winters | June 30, 2017

Refusing to Let Go of My Characters

Refusing to Let Go of My Characters

On Writing A Second Novel to Stave Off Loss

By Scott Spencer | June 29, 2017

The Pessimist's Guide to Literary Wedding Toasts

The Pessimist's Guide to Literary Wedding Toasts

Seriously, Put Down the Damn Neruda

By Emily Temple | June 28, 2017

Why is it So Difficult to Define the Essay?

Why is it So Difficult to Define the Essay?

Or, How to Use Knowledge Ethically

By Nicole B. Wallack | June 28, 2017

If a Bear Shows Up in the First Act, He Better Eat Someone in the Second

If a Bear Shows Up in the First Act, He Better Eat Someone in the Second

Tom Bouman on the Use of Man-Eating Bears in Fiction

By Tom Bouman | June 27, 2017

When a Lifelong Editor Becomes a Novelist

When a Lifelong Editor Becomes a Novelist

What I Learned on the Other Side of the Desk

By Karen Rinaldi | June 23, 2017

Reading Across America: Making Things Political

Reading Across America: Making Things Political

Natalka Burian on Creating Lit Scenes That Can Do Some Good

By Natalka Burian | June 23, 2017

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