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Why Does Anyone Write?

Why Does Anyone Write?

Writing a Novel is a Painful and Bloody Process

By Alice Adams | June 29, 2016

What Kind of Writer Are You: Cook or Baker?

What Kind of Writer Are You: Cook or Baker?

Improvise and Season Liberally; You Can Always Salvage Dinner

By Anna North | June 28, 2016

Why You Should Aim for 100 Rejections a Year

Why You Should Aim for 100 Rejections a Year

Kim Liao on Flipping Your Perspective on Submissions, and Failing Best

By Kim Liao | June 28, 2016

13 Questions to Ask Before Submitting to a Literary Journal

13 Questions to Ask Before Submitting to a Literary Journal

Erika Dreifus on Her Approach to Sending Out Writing

By Erika Dreifus | June 27, 2016

Do Writers Need To Be Alone to Thrive?

Do Writers Need To Be Alone to Thrive?

Angela Flournoy, Leslie Jamison, and Katherine Towler on Artistic Solitude

By Literary Hub | June 24, 2016

The Writer's Curse, The Writer's Blessing

The Writer's Curse, The Writer's Blessing

Rachel Louise Snyder on the Burden of the Memory Keeper

By Rachel Louise Snyder | June 22, 2016

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Martin Walker on the Origin of the Inspector Bruno Series

By Martin Walker | June 21, 2016

The Dark Side of Longform Journalism

By Luke Mogelson | June 16, 2016

Writer, Mother, Both, Neither

By Belle Boggs | June 14, 2016

How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Empty My Shelves

How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Empty My Shelves

Alana Massey on Books as Lifestyle Objects and Thinning Out Her Collection

By Alana Massey | June 13, 2016

On Max Perkins, One of America's Greatest Editors

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The Genius Behind the Genius of Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Wolfe, and More

By A. Scott Berg | June 13, 2016

Five Reasons Why Writers Should Move to Kansas City

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Exciting, Affordable, and Brimming with Freaky Art People

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How Rebel Ex-Punk Stona Fitch Became Rory Flynn

How Rebel Ex-Punk Stona Fitch Became Rory Flynn

The Reinvention of a Gritty Crime Writer

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In Search of Obscure Words for Even Rarer Feelings

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The More Emotions We Can Name, The Better Off We'll Be

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Escaping the Self-Critical Eye for the Sake of My Daughter

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Helen Phillips on Body Image, Motherhood, and Owning Your Idiosyncratic Self

By Helen Phillips | June 3, 2016

Actually, Criticism <em>Is</em> Literature

Actually, Criticism Is Literature

Writing About the Art of Writing is an Art Unto Itself

By Jonathan Russell Clark | June 2, 2016

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