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How to Write This Year’s “Definitive Novel” of the East Village in the 1980s

How to Write This Year’s “Definitive Novel” of the East Village in the 1980s

Jarett Kobek Gives Away His Professional Secrets

By Jarett Kobek | August 14, 2017

Katie Kitamura on Subverting Tropes in <em>A Separation</em>

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Because All Books Have Dead Women and Tidy Endings

By Emily Temple | August 14, 2017

Writing Just Enough Detail, But Not Too Much

Writing Just Enough Detail, But Not Too Much

Daniel Galera on Finding That Perfect Description

By Daniel Galera | August 14, 2017

How Pickles Help Me Survive the Horrible, Wonderful Life of a Writer

How Pickles Help Me Survive the Horrible, Wonderful Life of a Writer

Danya Kukafka on Her One, True Love: A Good Pickle

By Danya Kukafka | August 11, 2017

Charlie Jane Anders on Writing the Future

Charlie Jane Anders on Writing the Future

When the Drone Strikes in Your Story Become the Drone Strikes in the Sky

By Emily Temple | August 10, 2017

Good Memoir Comes From Saying What Can't Be Said

Good Memoir Comes From Saying What Can't Be Said

Dani Shapiro on What We Lose by Using Twitter

By Emily Temple | August 8, 2017

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On the Redemptive Generosity of Artistic Communities

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Do I Have the Right to Inhabit Another's Mental Illness in Fiction?

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What Trying to Finish a Crime Novel Taught Me About Writing

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So You've Decided to Write: How the Hell Do You Get Paid?

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Once Upon a Time, Writers Made Five Dollars a Word

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By Terry McDonell | August 1, 2017

So You’ve Decided to Write: The Best Way to Deal with Rejection

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“I long to hold the poetry editor’s penis in my hand.”

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Just Fill Up the Pit! And Other Writing Advice from Famous Authors

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