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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on How to Write and How to Read
"When it's difficult, what keeps me going is the possibility of joy."
By
Emily Temple
| September 15, 2017
7 Writers Who Were Also Editors (And the Books They Edited)
So Many Hats
By
Emily Temple
| September 14, 2017
When Roald Dahl's Editor Decided He Was Too Much of a Prick To Publish
Bob Gottlieb: Not Having It
By
Emily Temple
| September 13, 2017
Kaveh Akbar: How I Found Poetry in Childhood Prayer
In the Presence of the Long Faultless Tongue of God
By
Kaveh Akbar
| September 12, 2017
The Ways in Which a Novel Can Fail Like a Marriage
Josh Weil Considers How Hard It Is to Drown All His Darlings
By
Josh Weil
| September 12, 2017
The Classes 25 Famous Writers Teach
They're Not Always What You'd Expect
By
Emily Temple
| September 12, 2017
Best Reviewed
Books of the Week
Can the
New York Times'
Modern Love Column Change a Writer's Life?
By
Andrea Jarrell
| September 8, 2017
The Magic and Risk of a Handwritten Letter
By
Meghan Forbes
| September 7, 2017
How Academics Survive the Writing Grind: Some Anecdotal Advice
By
Helen Sword
| September 7, 2017
One Decade, Two Writers, Many Actors, and Finally My Book Became a Movie
Mark Haskell Smith on Adapting His Book
Salty
for the Big Screen
By
Mark Haskell Smith
| September 7, 2017
N.K. Jemisin on Craft, Advocacy, and Ignoring the Naysayers
"I feel the Force. I listen to my gut. I write what feels good."
By
Emily Temple
| September 1, 2017
Where Are the Likes? Coming to Terms with Being a Writer on Social Media
When News of Publication Garners Way More Attention Than the Writing Itself
By
Nick Ripatrazone
| August 31, 2017
Dear Rick Moody: What Should I Say About My Scars?
A Complicated Past Doesn't Need to Be a Complicated Present
By
Rick Moody
| August 31, 2017
The Photograph That Helped Me Finish My Book
Laura Schenone Finds Endurance in the Work of Fay Godwin
By
Laura Schenone
| August 30, 2017
15 Famous Writers on the Perils of a Formal Education
And Why Libraries > Classrooms
By
Emily Temple
| August 29, 2017
Why I Made My Main Character a Right Wing Blogger
Jonathan Dee on Spending Years with a Character He Didn't Quite Understand
By
Jonathan Dee
| August 28, 2017
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