• Craft and Advice

    Publishing

    Pep Talks That I Give to Authors That I Will Now Give to Myself

    In Which Maris Kreizman Attempts to Take Her Own Advice

     
    By Maris Kreizman  June 20, 2025
    Pen names

    How Four Literary Icons Chose the Pen Names That Made Them Famous

    By Kirsty McHugh and Ian Scott  June 20, 2025
    Short Stories

    Less Matters More: Joanna Walsh on the Expansive Possibilities of the Short Story

    By Joanna Walsh  June 18, 2025
    Windham-Campbell Prizes

    Sigrid Nunez on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby

    By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast   June 18, 2025
    Thresholds

    Nicholson Baker on the Unsung Pleasures of the World

    By Thresholds   June 18, 2025
    The Critic and Her Publics

    Leo Carey on What’s Not There

    By The Critic and Her Publics   June 17, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Class

    What Does It Mean To Be a Working Class Writer at Iowa Writers’ Workshop?

    By Lee Cole  June 17, 2025
    Queer Literature

    Visionary Ways of Caring: Five Books That Capture the Expansiveness of Queer Love

    By Dylin Hardcastle  June 16, 2025
    The Writing Life

    Interdisciplinary Magic: What the Humanities Can Reveal About Scientific Pursuits

    By Robert P. Baird  June 16, 2025
    The Craft of Writing

    Kate McKean on the Nuts and Bolts of the Query Letter

    Or, How to Do a Lot in a Little Space

    By Kate McKean  June 20, 2025
    Patriarchy

    Power, Motherhood and Murder: On the Life and Death of Agrippina the Younger

    By Diana Arterian  June 16, 2025
    First Draft

    Ethan Rutherford on Making Something from Nothing

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   June 16, 2025
    Write-minded

    Sara Kehaulani Goo on Writing as Kuleana

    By Memoir Nation   June 16, 2025
    Father's Day

    Becoming a Parent Changes How You Write… But Must It Change What You Write?

    Danny Lorberbaum on Balancing Creativity and New Fatherhood

    By Danny Lorberbaum  June 13, 2025
    In Memoriam

    “The Finch Interested Me…” In Memory of Lewis H. Lapham and the Magazine He Founded

    By Donovan Hohn  June 13, 2025
    Queer Literature

    Liberating Lit: Iryn Tushabe on Writing Stories of African Black Queer Joy Under Oppression

    By Iryn Tushabe  June 13, 2025
    The Craft of Writing

    Lucas Schaefer on Troubleshooting a Problem Character

    By Lucas Schaefer  June 13, 2025
    Food Writing

    Food as First Language: Mike Curato on the Validation of Learning to Cook Filipino Food

    The Author of “Gaysians” Rediscovers Memories of an Immigrant Childhood Through Special Dishes

    By Mike Curato  June 13, 2025
    Behind the Mic

    Vikas Adam on His Golden Voice

    By Behind the Mic   June 13, 2025
    Am I the Literary Asshole?

    I Don’t Think My Fantasy-Writing Friend Will Get My Literary Fiction: Am I the Asshole?

    By Kristen Arnett  June 12, 2025
    Writing the Novel

    Tired of Telling Just One Kind of Truth: On Moving from Journalism to Fiction

    By Janelle Brown  June 12, 2025
    Black History

    To Tell The Honest Truth: Why Black Women’s Stories Remain Essential

    A’Lelia Bundles on Writing About Her Great-Grandmother, A’Lelia Walker, America's first Black Celebrity Heiress

    By A'Lelia Bundles  June 11, 2025
    In Conversation

    The Craft of This Mortal Coil: Jonathan Gluck on Writing a Different Cancer Story

    By Terry McDonell  June 11, 2025
    Literary Adaptations

    On Reimagining The Great Gatsby as a Black American Story

    By Kyra Davis Lurie  June 11, 2025
    Queer Literature

    Against Homophobic Traditionalism: The Revelations of Writing Queer Historical Fiction

    By Phil Melanson  June 16, 2025
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