• Craft and Advice

    The Craft of Writing

    Karen Thompson Walker on Conceiving the Inconceivable in Fiction

    “There is a pleasure in being reminded that we don’t yet know all there is to know about the universe.”

     
    By Karen Thompson Walker  February 28, 2025
    Ancestors

    Roots of Stone: Diana McCaulay on Finding Your Story In That of Your Ancestors

    By Diana McCaulay  February 27, 2025
    Windham-Campbell Prizes

    Dionne Brand on José Saramago’s Seeing

    By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast   February 26, 2025
    Historical Fiction

    More than Cosplaying the Past: Andrea Barrett on Learning to Write Fresh Historical Fiction

    By Andrea Barrett  February 26, 2025
    Blindness

    An Invisibility Cloak of the Self: Jane Tara on Being Told She Was Going Blind in Her Forties

    By Jane Tara  February 26, 2025
    The Critic and Her Publics

    Meghan O’Rourke on the Glitzy Bits

    By The Critic and Her Publics   February 25, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Literary Community

    The Literary Favor Economy: In Praise of the Oft-Maligned Book Blurb

    By Ada Calhoun  February 25, 2025
    Retellings

    Non-Canon Compliant: In Praise of Classic Lit Fan Fiction

    By Allison Epstein  February 25, 2025
    craft advice

    Want to Write Better Fiction? Break Seven Ribs

    By Jane Pek  February 24, 2025
    Reading Lists

    Bridges to a Misunderstood World: Seven Memoirs That Show the Many Sides of Cuba

    Rebe Huntman Recommends Ruth Behar, Daisy Hernández, Alma Gillermoprieto, and More

    By Rebe Huntman  February 27, 2025
    Writers in Conversation

    Just a Little Blip: A Conversation with Sheila Heti

    By Fiona Warnick  February 24, 2025
    In Conversation

    Elaine Equi on Blankness, Condensing Verse, and the Joy of Writing Short Poems

    By Literary Hub  February 24, 2025
    First Draft

    Paul Theroux on His Ideal Reader

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   February 24, 2025
    Write-minded

    Jean Kwok on Infusing Mystery into Literary Fiction

    From the Write-minded Podcast, Hosted by Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner

    By Write-minded   February 24, 2025
    The Craft of Writing

    Eric Puchner: How to Be Funny When Writing a Novel

    By Eric Puchner  February 21, 2025
    In Conversation

    Clinging to an Ardent Hope: Eli Zuzovsky on Film, Selfhood, and Being an Israeli Writer Today

    By Eli Zuzovsky  February 21, 2025
    Am I the Literary Asshole?

    Am I the Literary Asshole for Thinking All Book Covers Look the Same?

    By Kristen Arnett  February 20, 2025
    Self-Publishing

    Inky and Determined: In Praise of Writers Who Self-Publish

    Lewis Buzbee on the Benefits of Taking Book Production Into Your Own Hands

    By Lewis Buzbee  February 20, 2025
    Walking

    How Walking Shaped Simone and Hélène de Beauvoir’s Art and Thought

    By Annabel Abbs  February 19, 2025
    Writing the Novel

    How the Kremlin’s Truly Epic Adaptation of War and Peace Helped Me Write a Novel

    By Elyse Durham  February 19, 2025
    Storytelling

    Novelists, Trust Me: You Can Really Learn a Lot About Storytelling From Video Games Like Elden Ring

    By Nick Newman  February 19, 2025
    Fathers and Daughters

    What My Father’s Emails Taught Me About the Craft of Writing

    Emily J. Smith: “If my voice was anything, it was the shadow of his.”

    By Emily J. Smith  February 19, 2025
    In Conversation

    Dreams of Liberation: Alex Zamalin on the Political Power of American Countercultures

    By Aaron Robertson  February 19, 2025
    Narrators

    Poetry’s “Flirty, Winking Middle Space.” Sarah Lyn Rogers on the Speaker as Mask in Verse

    By Sarah Lyn Rogers  February 18, 2025
    In Conversation

    Paul Lisicky on Joni Mitchell, Anti-Memoirs, and How Songwriting Influences His Nonfiction

    By Emma Copley Eisenberg  February 24, 2025
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