• Craft and Advice

    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Yiyun Li on Writing Advice (the Good, the Bad) and the Books She Always Returns To

    By Literary Hub  September 26, 2022
    Character Development

    Neither Villain Nor Victim: Stacey D’Erasmo on Embracing Discomfort in Telling the Story of a Complicit Woman

    By Stacey D'Erasmo  September 26, 2022
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Qian Julie Wang on Commuting, People-Watching, and Letting the Story Marinate

    By Literary Hub  September 26, 2022
    First Draft

    Jonathan Escoffery on Playing Out Some of His Worst Fears on the Page

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   September 26, 2022
    The Craft of Writing

    Stacey D’Erasmo on the Fun of Writing Cryptic Characters

    By Stacey D'Erasmo  September 23, 2022
    News and Culture

    Not Just Lyrics and Melodies: How Producers Conceive of Music

    By Susan Rogers and Ogi Ogas  September 22, 2022
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Yiyun Li on Complicated Friendships Real and Imagined

    By Fiction Non Fiction  September 22, 2022
    Jazz

    Why Jazz? Laura Warrell on Devotion to a “Dying” Art Form

    By Laura Warrell  September 20, 2022
    Nostalgia

    How the Trapper Keeper Shaped a Generation of Writers

    By Jess deCourcy Hinds  September 19, 2022
    Fragmentary Essays

    Break Everything and Begin Again: On Fragmentation as a Form

    By Sarah Haas  September 19, 2022
    Write-minded

    A.M. Homes on How to Write Characters that Stick with Your Readers

    By Write-minded   September 19, 2022
    On Craft

    Thomas C. Foster on the Seven Deadly Sins of Writing

    By Thomas C. Foster  September 16, 2022
    On Craft

    Ellen Meeropol on Writing Into the Gaps Left by Untold Family Stories

    By Ellen Meeropol  September 16, 2022
    On Writing

    When Your OCD Therapy is Also a Treatment for Writers’ Block

    By Elissa Bassist  September 16, 2022
    On Writing

    On the Myth of the Made Writer and the Madness of Emerging

    By Kailyn McCord  September 15, 2022
    The Maris Review

    Rachel Aviv: Why It’s Difficult to Trust Your Own Experiences of Mental Illness

    By The Maris Review  September 15, 2022
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    On Meaning and Time: Andrea Barrett on What the Past Tells Us About Today

    By Fiction Non Fiction  September 15, 2022
    The Writers Institute

    Jonathan Franzen: What Happens If We No Longer Have Bookstore Readings?

    By The Writers Institute  September 14, 2022
    Journalism

    How Dealing in Facts Helps Fiction Writers Hone Their Craft

    By Tracey Lien  September 14, 2022
    Art Criticism

    Why is Writing About Art So Difficult?

    By Sara Woster  September 14, 2022
    Thresholds

    Celeste Ng: What Place Does Art Have in the Fight Against Fascism?

    By Thresholds   September 14, 2022
    NewberyTart

    Author-Illustrator Dan Santat on the Magic of Fractured Fairy Tales

    By NewberyTart   September 14, 2022
    Ursa

    Deesha Philyaw and Dawnie Walton Answer Your Questions About Writing and Storytelling

    By Ursa   September 14, 2022
    On Translation

    Jhumpa Lahiri on Michael F. Moore’s Translation of Alessandro Manzoni’s The Betrothed

    By Jhumpa Lahiri  September 13, 2022
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Lit Hub Asks: 5 Writers, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

    By Teddy Wayne  September 13, 2022
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