Craft and Advice

Witches

In Order to Write, I Had to Break a Family Curse

Amanda Yates Garcia on Witchcraft and Writer's Block

 
By Amanda Yates Garcia  November 15, 2019
Love

Broken Heart? Immanuel Kant is Here to Help

By Marie Robert  November 13, 2019
Russian Literature

The Woman Who Brought Dostoevsky and Chekhov to English Readers

By Sara Wheeler  November 12, 2019
Writing Recommendations

Lydia Davis: Ten of My Recommendations for Good Writing Habits

By Lydia Davis  November 12, 2019
Craft

Kurt Vonnegut’s Advice for the Impatient Writer

By Suzanne McConnell and Kurt Vonnegut  November 11, 2019
Satire

What I Learned From Pretending to Be a Pretentious Lit Bro for 5 Years

By Dana Schwartz  November 7, 2019
Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
Capitalism

Big Data vs. Big Dada: Writing Poetry on Demand at a New Orleans Tech Convention

By Benjamin Aleshire  November 7, 2019
Interview

Rosalie Knecht and Idra Novey on Translation, Writing Tension, and Literary ‘Retrenchment’

By Brian Gresko  November 6, 2019
Writing Process

On the Patchwork Approach to Piecing Together a Book

By Heather Christle  November 5, 2019
Craft

Lessons in worldbuilding from N. K. Jemisin (plus a preview of her next book).

By Aaron Robertson  November 13, 2019
Love Stories

André Aciman Finds His Way Back to His Famous Lovers

By Brian Gresko  November 1, 2019
Residencies

Swimming Through Writer’s Block at an Icelandic Public Pool

By Amanda Whiting  November 1, 2019
Fiction/Non/Fiction

Creepy Stories (and More) from Victor LaValle and Benjamin Percy

By Fiction Non Fiction  October 31, 2019
5 Books

Kevin Wilson: I Pretend to Have Read Books All the Time

On the Genius of Seinfeld and Jennifer Egan

By Kevin Wilson  October 31, 2019
Motherhood

What I Feel When My Daughter Tells Me She Wants to Be a Writer

By Cinelle Barnes  October 30, 2019
Translation

Reyna Grande on Translating Her Own Book Into Spanish

By Reyna Grande  October 29, 2019
News and Culture

The Media Went Crazy When I Made $20,000 in a Week For Writing

By Glenn O'Brien  October 25, 2019
Cartoons

Six Cartoonists on Critical Failure, One Panel at a Time

Barbara Smaller, Edward Koren, Mick Stevens, and More

By Bob Eckstein  October 24, 2019
Craft

On the Many Different Engines That Power a Short Story

By Lincoln Michel  October 24, 2019
Craft

How Pretending to Be Paul McCartney Helped Me Write My Book

By Karl Whitney  October 24, 2019
Teaching High School

Teaching High School Students the Wildness of Poetry

By Nick Ripatrazone  October 23, 2019
Interview

Poet Diana Khoi Nguyen on Family and Writing a Radical Eulogy for Her Brother

The Author of Ghost Of in Conversation with Peter Mishler

By Peter Mishler  October 23, 2019
Trauma

Panic is Worse Than Pain: How Fiction Failed Me After Trauma

By Jenn Ashworth  October 18, 2019
Fiction/Non/Fiction

The Connie Brothers Era: 45 Years at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop

By Fiction Non Fiction  October 17, 2019
The Writing Life

How a Writing Mentor Can Change Your Life

By Nathan Deuel  November 4, 2019
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