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

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

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

Shifting Narratives, Oral Histories, and the Tricky Nature of the Facts

By Lorraine Boissoneault | October 3, 2016

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

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

Stanley Donwood on the Story Behind Catacombs of Terror!

By Stanley Donwood | September 30, 2016

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

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

On the Many False Starts and Revisions to Disgrace

By David Attwell | September 29, 2016

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

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

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By Caitlin Goodman | September 27, 2016

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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

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Writing Advice from Edward Albee

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

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On the Irresistible Pull of Tidal Metaphors

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The Language of Love and Death Deep Beneath the Sea

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Dear Rick Moody: Why Do Men Spinster-bait?

Dear Rick Moody: Why Do Men Spinster-bait?

Rick Moody, Life Coach, on Male Fear of the Symbolic Feminine

By Rick Moody | September 16, 2016

Alan Moore Goes (Very Very) Big with <em>Jerusalem</em>

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On the Ongoing Ascendancy of the Very Long Novel

By Joshua Zajdman | September 14, 2016

Wrestling With Writer's Block in the Middle of a Cranberry Bog

Wrestling With Writer's Block in the Middle of a Cranberry Bog

Rosamund Stone Zander on the Writing That Happens When We Don't Know It

By Rosamund Stone Zander | September 14, 2016

Why I'm Starting a Publishing House in Romania

Why I'm Starting a Publishing House in Romania

On Reading Our Way to the Real Issues

By Elena Marcu | September 14, 2016

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