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So You've Decided to Write: What I Learned From Editing Jim Harrison

So You've Decided to Write: What I Learned From Editing Jim Harrison

Part Three of Terry McDonell's Summer Series on Becoming a Writer

By Terry McDonell | July 13, 2017

So You've Decided to Write: When to Drown Your Darlings

So You've Decided to Write: When to Drown Your Darlings

Part Two in Terry McDonell's Summer Series on How to Be a Writer

By Terry McDonell | July 12, 2017

How Thoreau (And My Father) Taught Me That Literature is a Public Good

How Thoreau (And My Father) Taught Me That Literature is a Public Good

"This Function is as Vital as Air, as Vital as Water"

By Kristen Case | July 12, 2017

Spider-Man Taught Me How to Live, Comics Taught Me How to Write

Spider-Man Taught Me How to Live, Comics Taught Me How to Write

Nikesh Shukla on the Dual Life of an Immigrant Son in North West London

By Nikesh Shukla | July 12, 2017

So You've Decided to Write: Advice from a Great and Notorious Editor

So You've Decided to Write: Advice from a Great and Notorious Editor

Introducing a New Summer Series on Writing from Terry McDonell

By Terry McDonell | July 11, 2017

Why E.B. White Was Wrong About (Some of) the Elements of Style

Why E.B. White Was Wrong About (Some of) the Elements of Style

Lovers of the Passive Voice Unite

By A. L. Kennedy | July 11, 2017

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I Walked Across Europe To Understand My Character

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On Writing A Second Novel to Stave Off Loss

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The Pessimist's Guide to Literary Wedding Toasts

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Seriously, Put Down the Damn Neruda

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Why is it So Difficult to Define the Essay?

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Or, How to Use Knowledge Ethically

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If a Bear Shows Up in the First Act, He Better Eat Someone in the Second

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Tom Bouman on the Use of Man-Eating Bears in Fiction

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