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If It Wasn't For My Corporate Office Job, I Couldn't Be a Novelist

If It Wasn't For My Corporate Office Job, I Couldn't Be a Novelist

Jillian Medoff Would Rather Talk About Sex Than Reveal How Much Her Novels Made

By Jillian Medoff | January 8, 2018

Christopher J. Yates Gave Himself 10 Years to Publish a Novel

Christopher J. Yates Gave Himself 10 Years to Publish a Novel

"The rejections pile grew twenty-tall, thirty-high. . ."

By Christopher J. Yates | January 5, 2018

How Fetishizing 'Craft' Can Get in the Way of a Good Poem

How Fetishizing 'Craft' Can Get in the Way of a Good Poem

Michael Bazzett Worries About the Imagining Animal

By Michael Bazzett | December 19, 2017

Making the Jump from Stage to Page

Making the Jump from Stage to Page

Playwright-Turned-Novelist Kia Corthron on the Varieties of Storytelling

By Kia Corthron | December 15, 2017

20 Questions (And Answers) for the Debut Writer

20 Questions (And Answers) for the Debut Writer

Ask the Publicists, A Regular Advice Column From Broadside PR

By Literary Hub | December 14, 2017

How Important is the First Draft to Your Novel?

How Important is the First Draft to Your Novel?

Some People Revise, Some People Write

By Sandra Scofield | December 12, 2017

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By Emily Temple | December 7, 2017

On Book Publishing's Drinking Culture

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The Ghosts of Literary Greatness That Forever Haunt Paris

By Peter Wortsman | December 5, 2017

On Our Love-Hate Relationship with Punctuation

On Our Love-Hate Relationship with Punctuation

Why So Much Anger for the Semicolon?

By Stephen Spector | December 5, 2017

Love and Death at the Library with the Astro Poets

Love and Death at the Library with the Astro Poets

"I had that nervous date feeling, like you were all a giant Earth sign”

By Kyle Lucia Wu | December 1, 2017

How I Turned My Discarded Novel Drafts Into an AI

How I Turned My Discarded Novel Drafts Into an AI

Could a Computer Learn to Imitate Me?

By Kirsten Menger-Anderson | November 30, 2017

Inside Vladimir Nabokov's Dream Journal

Inside Vladimir Nabokov's Dream Journal

"Several dreams, one of them keenly erotic..."

By Vladimir Nabokov | November 30, 2017

Encountering My Son's Older Doppelganger

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Ashley Hay on the Scandinavian Concept of Vardøger

By Ashley Hay | November 30, 2017

James Salter: Why I Write

James Salter: Why I Write

An American Master on the Origins of His Craft

By James Salter | November 29, 2017

5 Reasons Why a Writer Should Move to Tacoma

5 Reasons Why a Writer Should Move to Tacoma

From Natural Beauty to Bookstore Cats, We'll Probably Relocate to Washington

By Renee Simms | November 29, 2017

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