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The Books That Made Your Favorite Writers Want to Write

The Books That Made Your Favorite Writers Want to Write

From Eileen Myles to Zadie Smith

By Emily Temple | April 26, 2017

Why You Shouldn't Get Into a Fight With Jane Smiley

Why You Shouldn't Get Into a Fight With Jane Smiley

Claire Cameron on Finding the Strength to Commit to Her Fictional History

By Claire Cameron | April 26, 2017

Translating This Broken World: How to Tell a Refugee's Story

Translating This Broken World: How to Tell a Refugee's Story

Valeria Luiselli and Mark Lyons Reveal the Human Details of Our Inhumanity

By Nathaniel Popkin | April 26, 2017

Five Reasons Why a Writer Should Move to Chicago

Five Reasons Why a Writer Should Move to Chicago

None of Them Are Pizza

By Adam Morgan | April 26, 2017

Ask the Publicists: What's the One Thing I Can Do For My Book?

Ask the Publicists: What's the One Thing I Can Do For My Book?

A REGULAR ADVICE COLUMN FROM BROADSIDE PR

By Literary Hub | April 25, 2017

Life Advice from the Late Robert M. Pirsig

Life Advice from the Late Robert M. Pirsig

A Little Wisdom from the Iconic Author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

By Emily Temple | April 25, 2017

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Historical Fiction is More Important Than Ever: 10 Writers Weigh In

By Crystal King | April 24, 2017

A Twang or a Drawl? The Art of the Audiobook Southern Accent

By John Adamian | April 20, 2017

Allen Ginsberg's Definition of the Beat Generation

By Allen Ginsberg | April 20, 2017

From Mukasonga to Alexievich, We Need Writers Who Bear Witness

From Mukasonga to Alexievich, We Need Writers Who Bear Witness

Scott Esposito on Staying Clear-Eyed in Dark Times

By Veronica Esposito | April 18, 2017

Something More than Correctness: On Teaching Grace Paley's Essays

Something More than Correctness: On Teaching Grace Paley's Essays

"It’s not their own shame that holds young writers back; it’s ours"

By Scott Korb | April 18, 2017

Mónica de la Torre on Corporatese and the Oppression of Fancy Chairs

Mónica de la Torre on Corporatese and the Oppression of Fancy Chairs

Poets on Life and Craft

By Peter Mishler | April 17, 2017

Helping My First Generation Students Take Pride in their Personal Essays

Helping My First Generation Students Take Pride in their Personal Essays

"I feel lucky to be able to witness the telling of these lives"

By Sonia Taitz | April 13, 2017

David Vann:

David Vann: "If I Miss a Single Morning of Writing, It Changes My Novel"

On Creative Routine and Writing Eight Books in Eight Years

By David Vann | April 13, 2017

The Lives of the Poets Aren't All That Cinematic

The Lives of the Poets Aren't All That Cinematic

Routine and Domesticity in Terence Davies’s A Quiet Passion and
Jim Jarmusch’s Paterson

By Lucy Scholes | April 13, 2017

Lidia Yuknavitch: I Will Always Inhabit the Water

Lidia Yuknavitch: I Will Always Inhabit the Water

On Living a Swimmer's Life

By Lidia Yuknavitch | April 12, 2017

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