Fact, Fiction, and When a Novel Crosses the Line

Fact, Fiction, and When a Novel Crosses the Line

Joanna Scott on the Illusive Boundaries of Truth and Literature

By Joanna Scott | August 15, 2017

How to Write This Year’s “Definitive Novel” of the East Village in the 1980s

How to Write This Year’s “Definitive Novel” of the East Village in the 1980s

Jarett Kobek Gives Away His Professional Secrets

By Jarett Kobek | August 14, 2017

Katie Kitamura on Subverting Tropes in <em>A Separation</em>

Katie Kitamura on Subverting Tropes in A Separation

Because All Books Have Dead Women and Tidy Endings

By Emily Temple | August 14, 2017

Writing Just Enough Detail, But Not Too Much

Writing Just Enough Detail, But Not Too Much

Daniel Galera on Finding That Perfect Description

By Daniel Galera | August 14, 2017

How Pickles Help Me Survive the Horrible, Wonderful Life of a Writer

How Pickles Help Me Survive the Horrible, Wonderful Life of a Writer

Danya Kukafka on Her One, True Love: A Good Pickle

By Danya Kukafka | August 11, 2017

Charlie Jane Anders on Writing the Future

Charlie Jane Anders on Writing the Future

When the Drone Strikes in Your Story Become the Drone Strikes in the Sky

By Emily Temple | August 10, 2017

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Good Memoir Comes From Saying What Can't Be Said

By Emily Temple | August 8, 2017

On the Redemptive Generosity of Artistic Communities

By Veronica Esposito | August 8, 2017

Do I Have the Right to Inhabit Another's Mental Illness in Fiction?

By Sarah Faber | August 7, 2017

Writers, Protect Your Inner Life

Writers, Protect Your Inner Life

A writing life and a writing career are two separate things

By Lan Samantha Chang | August 7, 2017

What Trying to Finish a Crime Novel Taught Me About Writing

What Trying to Finish a Crime Novel Taught Me About Writing

Jennifer Kitses on Some Hard-Won Lessons from Genre

By Jennifer Kitses | August 4, 2017

So You've Decided to Write: How the Hell Do You Get Paid?

So You've Decided to Write: How the Hell Do You Get Paid?

Once Upon a Time, Writers Made Five Dollars a Word

By Terry McDonell | August 2, 2017

The Weird Stenographer: Sam Shepard on His Long Writing Life

The Weird Stenographer: Sam Shepard on His Long Writing Life

RIP the Great American Playwright

By Emily Temple | August 1, 2017

Why Short Stories?

Why Short Stories?

Jim Shepard on the White Hot Literary Center of America

By Emily Temple | August 1, 2017

So You've Decided to Write: Is Your Novel Actually Fiction or Non?

So You've Decided to Write: Is Your Novel Actually Fiction or Non?

Truth Can Be Revealed in More Ways Than One

By Terry McDonell | August 1, 2017

So You’ve Decided to Write: The Best Way to Deal with Rejection

So You’ve Decided to Write: The Best Way to Deal with Rejection

“I long to hold the poetry editor’s penis in my hand.”

By Terry McDonell | July 27, 2017

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