“It Was a Skeleton of a Book.” Marisa Crane on World-Building in Their Debut Novel 

“It Was a Skeleton of a Book.” Marisa Crane on World-Building in Their Debut Novel 

In Conversation with Lindsay Hunter on I'm a Writer But  

By I'm a Writer But | April 11, 2023

Novelist Juliette Fay Explains Why Regret is Such Fertile Territory for Fiction Writers

Novelist Juliette Fay Explains Why Regret is Such Fertile Territory for Fiction Writers

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | April 11, 2023

Baroque, Purple, and Beautiful: In Praise of the Long, Complicated Sentence

Baroque, Purple, and Beautiful: In Praise of the Long, Complicated Sentence

Ed Simon Asks Us to Reconsider Our Definitions of Good Style

By Ed Simon | April 10, 2023

Joy Harjo on Being a Poet and Witness to History

Joy Harjo on Being a Poet and Witness to History

From Her Acceptance Speech for the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award at The National Book Critics Circle Awards

By Joy Harjo | April 10, 2023

Maggie Smith on How She Approached Plot in Her Memoir

Maggie Smith on How She Approached Plot in Her Memoir

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | April 10, 2023

Ling Ling Huang on the Similarities Between Classical Music and Fiction Writing

Ling Ling Huang on the Similarities Between Classical Music and Fiction Writing

“Music and writing demand the same things: self-discipline, time, and patience.”

By Ling Ling Huang | April 10, 2023

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Charif Shanahan on Making the Unseen Seen through Poetry

By Literary Hub | April 10, 2023

The Reader is the Only Place That Matters: On the Metaphysical Space Within Literature

By Blair Austin | April 10, 2023

What to Read Before and After Seeing the Adaptation of Haruki Murakami’s Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

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The Most Mysterious of Arts: On the Science of Reading

The Most Mysterious of Arts: On the Science of Reading

Adrian Johns Considers Our Attempts to Codify and Optimize Learning

By Adrian Johns | April 7, 2023

When Cate Blanchett Played Tennessee Williams’s Greatest Character

When Cate Blanchett Played Tennessee Williams’s Greatest Character

Nancy Schoenberger on the Power of Blanche duBois in Liv Ullmann's Unique Production of A Streetcar Named Desire

By Nancy Schoenberger | April 7, 2023

Jane Roper on Learning How to Have Fun While Writing Fiction

Jane Roper on Learning How to Have Fun While Writing Fiction

“Bringing your full self to your work, wielding all of your tools with abandon, is fun at a whole other level.”

By Jane Roper | April 7, 2023

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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Our Father Issues: A Reading List of Spiritual Disillusionment

Our Father Issues: A Reading List of Spiritual Disillusionment

Christiana Spens Recommends Patti Smith, Lily Dunn, and More

By Christiana Spens | April 7, 2023

A Passion for Living in the Present: <br>A Conversation with Yuko Tsushima and Annie Ernaux

A Passion for Living in the Present:
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A Piece of Global Literary History Available in English For the First Time

By Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda | April 6, 2023

Manufacturing Lies: Dina Nayeri on How Our Cultural and Bureaucratic Norms Often Betray the Truth

Manufacturing Lies: Dina Nayeri on How Our Cultural and Bureaucratic Norms Often Betray the Truth

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | April 6, 2023

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