You Can’t Rely on Inspiration: Essential Writing Advice from J.G. Ballard

You Can’t Rely on Inspiration: Essential Writing Advice from J.G. Ballard

"Self-discipline is enormously important."

By Emily Temple | November 15, 2018

When a Story is Best Told Backwards

When a Story is Best Told Backwards

Samantha Harvey on the Melancholy of Reverse Narratives

By Samantha Harvey | November 15, 2018

Herman Melville: How to Promote Your Future Classic About Whales

Herman Melville: How to Promote Your Future Classic About Whales

Did People Even Talk About Books Before Twitter? As Told to Thomas Swick

By Herman Melville | November 14, 2018

Reading Across America: Literature and Community in Sin City

Reading Across America: Literature and Community in Sin City

Kayla Dean on Neon Lit, a Grad Student-Run Reading Series in Las Vegas

By Kayla Dean | November 14, 2018

Advice from the NBA 5 Under 35 Honorees About Writing a <em>Second</em> Book

Advice from the NBA 5 Under 35 Honorees About Writing a Second Book

Take Your Second Book Seriously Before There Is One

By Corinne Segal | November 13, 2018

George Saunders on the Best Writing Advice He's Received

George Saunders on the Best Writing Advice He's Received

Everybody's Favorite Literary Uncle Also Loves Gogol

By Literary Hub | November 13, 2018

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Kay Eldredge Salter: My Husband's Choice to Be a Writer Was the Hardest of His Life

By Kay Eldredge Salter | November 13, 2018

Poetry is Infinite: A Conversation with Jeffrey Schultz

By Peter Mishler | November 13, 2018

See Oscar Wilde's Handwritten Edits to The Picture of Dorian Gray

By Literary Hub | November 9, 2018

If You Have These Traits You Might Be a Writer

If You Have These Traits You Might Be a Writer

Karen E. Bender Tries to Answer a Very Difficult Question

By Karen E. Bender | November 8, 2018

How Kazuo Ishiguro Used

How Kazuo Ishiguro Used "Dream Techniques" to Write His Most Polarizing Novel

Revelations from the Nobel Laureate's Archives

By Emily Temple | November 8, 2018

Rakesh Satyal on the Pick-Up Line That Changed His Life

Rakesh Satyal on the Pick-Up Line That Changed His Life

(And Some Very Good Writing Advice, Too!)

By Rakesh Satyal | November 7, 2018

Having No Time is the Best Time to Get Writing Done

Having No Time is the Best Time to Get Writing Done

Jessie Greengrass on Writing in the Cracks of a Busy Day

By Jessie Greengrass | November 7, 2018

The Man Who Made Science Fiction What It Is Today

The Man Who Made Science Fiction What It Is Today

On John Campbell Who "Influenced the Dreamlife of Millions"

By Alec Nevala-Lee | November 7, 2018

MTA Versus MFA: On Trains as Writing Spaces

MTA Versus MFA: On Trains as Writing Spaces

Panio Gianopoulos Makes the Best of His Daily Commute

By Panio Gianopoulos | November 5, 2018

The Weirdos of Russian Literature

The Weirdos of Russian Literature

On the Foibles of Genius, From Tolstoy to Akhmatova

By Viv Groskop | November 2, 2018

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