• Craft and Advice

    Plot

    The Transcendence of the Clock: On Finding Clarity in Fiction and in Life

    By Samuel Ligon  March 13, 2023
    Keen On

    Jean Hanff Korelitz on Philip Roth, The Human Stain, and a Novelist’s Right to Tell Other People’s Stories

    By Keen On  March 13, 2023
    The Craft of Writing

    Xiaolu Guo on Translating
    the Self

    By Xiaolu Guo  March 10, 2023
    Dysmorphia

    My Author Photo Brought Me Face to Face With the Body I Hated

    By Kate Brody  March 9, 2023
    Otherppl

    Camonghne Felix on Her Gamification Approach to Collage

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  March 9, 2023
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Letters to a Writer of Color: Deepa Anappara and Taymour Soomro on Finding Community With Each Other

    By Fiction Non Fiction  March 9, 2023
    Thresholds

    Layli Long Soldier on the Joys of Creative Liberation

    By Thresholds   March 8, 2023
    When I’m Not Writing

    How Wave Riding is Like Writing: Liza Monroy on Surrendering to the Great Unknown

    By Liza Monroy  March 8, 2023
    Debut Authors

    If Doctors Make the Worst Patients, Do Editors Make the Worst Authors?

    By Jenny Jackson  March 8, 2023
    Book Awards

    Meet the Five PEN/Faulkner Finalists of 2023

    By Martha Anne Toll  March 8, 2023
    The Hub

    The one where Margaret Atwood gave a cracking WIRED interview.

    By Janet Manley  March 7, 2023
    Writers in Conversation

    Idra Novey on Characters Who Hear and Mishear Each Other

    By Jane Ciabattari  March 7, 2023
    Metaphors

    Erasing Metaphors in the Quest to Fit In

    By Dina Nayeri  March 7, 2023
    News and Culture

    Encounters with a Mad King: Jac Jemc on Finding a Story While Lost in Research

    By Jac Jemc  March 7, 2023
    I'm a Writer But

    Lydia Conklin on Letting Their Personality Into Their Work

    By I'm a Writer But   March 7, 2023
    Origins

    Countries Real and Imagined: Chris McCormick on Creating His Own Armenia

    By Chris McCormick  March 6, 2023
    Influences

    “The Excitement of Influence.” Read Stories by Katherine Mansfield and Christine Schutt

    By NOON senior editors Rachel Chait, Zach Davidson, Madelaine Lucas, Liza St. James   March 6, 2023
    Poets

    ​​José Olivarez on Translation and Transformation in Poetry

    By Literary Hub  March 6, 2023
    Trilogies

    What It’s Like To Write About the Same Characters For Over a Decade

    By Rachel Joyce  March 6, 2023
    Craft

    How a Middle School Piano Lesson Helped Me Write My Book

    By Ilyon Woo  March 6, 2023
    On Teaching

    What If? Lidia Yuknavitch on Her Philosophy of Teaching

    By Lidia Yuknavitch  March 3, 2023
    Politics

    Andrea Dunlop on Why Today is Such a Rage-Inducing Moment to Be a Woman

    By Keen On  March 3, 2023
    Keen On

    Corie Adjmi on Her Guilt at Writing About “Flawed” Jewish Characters

    By Keen On  March 3, 2023
    The Craft of Writing

    Stephen Marche on the Truth About Writerly Perseverance

    By Stephen Marche  March 3, 2023
    New Books Network

    Personhood, Privilege, and the Virtual: Lavanya Lakshminarayan on Her New Dystopian Novel

    By New Books Network  March 3, 2023
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