• Craft and Advice

    Book Design

    Secrets of the Designer: The Nuance of Creating the Perfect Book Cover

    Alia Hanna Habib in Conversation with Emily Mahon

     
    By Alia Hanna Habib  April 7, 2025
    Imagination

    Lynn Steger Strong on the Importance of Imaginative Truth in Fiction and Nonfiction

    By Lynn Steger Strong  April 7, 2025
    First Draft

    Colum McCann on the Arts in Question

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   April 7, 2025
    Write-minded

    Write-Minded on Miranda July’s All Fours

    By Write-minded   April 7, 2025
    The Craft of Writing

    Maggie Smith on Embracing Imperfection, in Life and Art

    By Maggie Smith  April 4, 2025
    Comfort Food

    Memory, Care, Protection: Crystal Hana Kim on the Many Uses of Food

    By Crystal Hana Kim  April 4, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Remembrances

    Exploring the Traumas of the Armenian Genocide

    By Nancy Kricorian  April 4, 2025
    Craft and Criticism

    In Which a Couple of Actual Literary Assholes Make an Appearance

    By Kristen Arnett  April 3, 2025
    Mothers and Daughters

    More Than Just a Toy: What an Old Dollhouse Taught Me About Storytelling and Family

    By Elise Hooper  April 3, 2025
    Fiction vs. Nonfiction

    Inventing Truths: What Toni Morrison’s Fiction Taught Me About Writing Memoir

    Bridgett M. Davis on the Creative Lessons Learned From an Icon of American Literature

    By Bridgett M. Davis  April 7, 2025
    On Reading

    Can Writers Ever Remember How to Read For Fun?

    By Amy Shearn  April 1, 2025
    Craft of Writing

    On the Challenge of Writing a Sequel to a Twenty-Year-Old Novel

    By Lee Martin  April 1, 2025
    Poets in Conversation

    Art, Liberty, Diverse Voices: Six Poets on Why University Presses Are Critical for Poetry

    By Literary Hub  March 31, 2025
    First Draft

    Karen Russell on What the Magic Offers

    In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   March 31, 2025
    Write-minded

    Kate McKean on Your Feelings About Publishing

    By Write-minded   March 31, 2025
    The Craft of Writing

    Dancing on the Page: Sulaiman Addonia on Writing in the Footsteps of Pina Bausch

    By Sulaiman Addonia  March 28, 2025
    The Writing Life

    How Tennis Helped Me Manage the Competitive Beast That Was Ruining My Writing

    By Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya  March 27, 2025
    Climate Fiction

    Earthquake Anxiety:
    Living—and Writing—in Fear of the Big One

    Emma Pattee on Capturing the Human Feeling of Disaster

    By Emma Pattee  March 27, 2025
    Retellings

    Poet, Mystic, Warrior, Visionary: Reimagining the Life and Art of an Aztec Ruler Lost in Myth

    By Ilan Stavans  March 27, 2025
    Thresholds

    Sabrina Imbler on the Power of Collectivity

    By Thresholds   March 26, 2025
    Behind the Mic

    Ann Powers and Alison Fensterstock on How Women Made Music

    By Behind the Mic   March 26, 2025
    The Critic and Her Publics

    Fergus McIntosh: “One Wonders”

    In Conversation with Merve Emre on The Critic and Her Publics

    By The Critic and Her Publics   March 25, 2025
    Fact vs. Fiction

    Two Ways To Tell the Same Truth: Navigating the Boundary Between Fact and Fiction

    By Binnie Kirshenbaum  March 25, 2025
    craft advice

    The Power of Absence: How Loss Can Help Fuel a Creative Life

    By Sanam Mahloudji  March 25, 2025
    literary criticism

    Fighting for One’s Fiction: How Norman Mailer Taught Me to Defend My Plots

    By Anthony Giardina  April 2, 2025
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