On Historical Fiction, True Stories, and Not Recreating Reality

On Historical Fiction, True Stories, and Not Recreating Reality

Craig Larsen on how writing a novel is like fabricating an elaborate lie

By Craig Larsen | October 7, 2016

Can Fiction Still Make a Difference?

Can Fiction Still Make a Difference?

Am I Writer-as-Writer, or Writer-as-Advocate?

By Rachel Hennessy | October 7, 2016

Junot Diaz: On My Way to the Novel, I Fell in Love with the Short Story

Junot Diaz: On My Way to the Novel, I Fell in Love with the Short Story

In Praise of a Form "Unforgiving as Fuck"

By Junot Díaz | October 7, 2016

Nell Zink: How to Become a Novelist in Ten Easy Steps

Nell Zink: How to Become a Novelist in Ten Easy Steps

Advice from the author of Nicotine

By Nell Zink | October 5, 2016

How My Grandfather Went From the Pulitzer Prize to Complete Obscurity

How My Grandfather Went From the Pulitzer Prize to Complete Obscurity

Tom Shroder on Growing Up in the Shadow of MacKinlay Kantor

By Tom Shroder | October 4, 2016

Where the Hell Do You Start With Something as Vast as a Memoir?

Where the Hell Do You Start With Something as Vast as a Memoir?

iO Tillet Wright on How to Tell the Story of a Life

By iO Tillett Wright | October 3, 2016

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One Story, Two Tellers: When Someone Else Wrote the Same Book As Me

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The Time I Wrote a 150,000-Word Pulp Novel in a Month to Win a Bet

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How J.M. Coetzee wrote His Booker Prize-Winning Book

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The Grumpy Librarian: If Your Living Room is Carpeted in Thorns...

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By Caitlin Goodman | September 27, 2016

Getting Paid for Poetry in the Digital Age

Getting Paid for Poetry in the Digital Age

On Ghost City Press, Micro-Chapbooks, and Donation-Based Models

By Deirdre Coyle | September 22, 2016

What Jane Austen Can Teach Us About Building Suspense

What Jane Austen Can Teach Us About Building Suspense

How to Use Dramatic Irony and Plot Secrets

By Rebecca Smith | September 21, 2016

Ask the Publicists: But What About My Book?

Ask the Publicists: But What About My Book?

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By Literary Hub | September 20, 2016

Fear and Loathing in New England: Lev Grossman Looks Back at His First Novel

Fear and Loathing in New England: Lev Grossman Looks Back at His First Novel

"I wasn’t really a slacker; I was more just a loser."

By Lev Grossman | September 20, 2016

Writing Advice from Edward Albee

Writing Advice from Edward Albee

When One of the Great Playwrights of the 20th Century Visits Your High School

By Neil Goldstein Glick | September 20, 2016

On the Irresistible Pull of Tidal Metaphors

On the Irresistible Pull of Tidal Metaphors

The Language of Love and Death Deep Beneath the Sea

By Hugh Aldersey-Williams | September 20, 2016

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