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The Unbearable Niceness of Being

The Unbearable Niceness of Being

On Niceness in Publishing and Why We Should Ask Men to Do Better

By Alana Massey | January 13, 2017

When You Name Your Fictional War Criminal After a Real Man By Accident

When You Name Your Fictional War Criminal After a Real Man By Accident

David Savill on Trauma, History, and the Precarity of Naming

By David Savill | January 13, 2017

When Writing Becomes Just Another Lifestyle Good

When Writing Becomes Just Another Lifestyle Good

On MFA Programs, Supplementary Services, and Affordability

By Mary Wang | January 11, 2017

How Art Can Defeat Boredom and Loneliness

How Art Can Defeat Boredom and Loneliness

To Preserve the Need for Wonder, We Must Look Inward

By Eva Hoffman | January 11, 2017

On Selling Your First Novel After 11 Years

On Selling Your First Novel After 11 Years

Min Jin Lee on the Road to Free Food for Millionaires

By Min Jin Lee | January 10, 2017

12 Contemporary Writers on How They Revise

12 Contemporary Writers on How They Revise

From Joan Didion to Kelly Link to George Saunders...

By Emily Temple | January 10, 2017

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How Faulkner Convinced Me Not to Become an Astronomer

By Alan Jacobs | January 10, 2017

How to Build a Powerful Community of Brown Female Voices

By Piyali Bhattacharya | January 5, 2017

Why Every Aspiring Writer Should Go See Paterson

By Emily Temple | January 5, 2017

Letters from an Invented Writer

Letters from an Invented Writer

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What Romance Fiction Can Accomplish

What Romance Fiction Can Accomplish

On the Passion and Pleasure of "Light" Reading

By Cathy Maxwell | December 29, 2016

Working Your Way Through Depression to Finish a Book

Working Your Way Through Depression to Finish a Book

Jason Diamond on the Importance of Work, and the Struggle to Write

By Jason Diamond | December 22, 2016

The Last Bookbinder on the Lower East Side

The Last Bookbinder on the Lower East Side

An Ancient Trade, Alive on Henry Street

By Dwyer Murphy | December 21, 2016

The Art of Revision: Most of What You Write Should Be Cut

The Art of Revision: Most of What You Write Should Be Cut

Charles Johnson on How to Sculpt a Story

By Charles Johnson | December 20, 2016

Human Hair, Dolls Clothes, Love Letters and Other Strange Things Found in Old Books

Human Hair, Dolls Clothes, Love Letters and Other Strange Things Found in Old Books

UVA's Book Traces Project tracks human interactions with physical books

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Ask the Publicists: An Author's Survival Kit for Dark Times

Ask the Publicists: An Author's Survival Kit for Dark Times

A Monthly Advice Column from Broadside PR

By Literary Hub | December 13, 2016

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