Craft and Advice

Graphic Memoir

Alison Bechdel on Transcendentalism, Bliss, and The Secret to Superhuman Strength

The Author of Fun Home Discusses Writing Beyond Language

 
By Corinne Segal  May 10, 2021
Plot

What Do We Mean When We Say a Novel is Without Plot?

By Rónán Hession  May 10, 2021
First Draft

Why Elizabeth McCracken Loves Ventriloquism and Other Weird Show Business

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   May 10, 2021
Interview with a Journal

Interview with a Journal: The Point

By Vanessa Willoughby  May 10, 2021
The Literary Life

Hanif Abdurraqib on Censoring the Desires of Whiteness in Storytelling

By The Literary Life  May 7, 2021
Interview with a Journal

Interview with a Journal: ZYZZYVA

By Vanessa Willoughby  May 7, 2021
Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
The Craft of Writing

Elissa Washuta on the Questions that Animate an Essay

By Elissa Washuta  May 7, 2021
5 Questions

Writer’s Block? Maggie Shipstead Befriends It Instead of Fighting It

By Literary Hub  May 7, 2021
The Common

Deborah Lindsay Williams on Asking Better Questions About the Status Quo

By The Common  May 7, 2021
Interview with a Poet

Kate Durbin on Finding Beauty in the Possessions That Possess Us

Chelsea Hodson Talks with the Author of Hoarders

By Chelsea Hodson  May 10, 2021
Writers on Writers

My Boxing is Everything: On Trying to Punch Like Ernest Hemingway

By Alison Dean  May 6, 2021
Book Covers

When You’re the Target Audience for the Futurist Paintings of a Long-Dead Swedish Artist

By Patrick Allington  May 6, 2021
5 Questions

“Writers Write.” Laura Dave on Writerly Affirmations and Love for Nora Ephron

By Literary Hub  May 6, 2021
The Maris Review

Maggie Shipstead: In Praise of Books That Aren’t Totally Satisfying

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review  May 6, 2021
NewberyTart

Celia C. Peréz on Creating the Zines She Couldn’t Find in the 90s

By NewberyTart   May 6, 2021
Otherppl

Gina Nutt on the Creative Usefulness of Feeling Stuck

By Otherppl with Brad Listi  May 6, 2021
Publishing

All in the Timing: On Publishing a Novel Nine Years After Giving Up on It

By Joy Lanzendorfer  May 5, 2021
Teaching High School

8 Ways the Pandemic Has Changed How I Teach High School English

Nick Ripatrazone Recommends Flexibility, Care, and Rest

By Nick Ripatrazone  May 5, 2021
Thresholds

Hanif Abdurraqib on Decentering Pain in the Stories of Black Lives

By Thresholds   May 5, 2021
Personal Space

Personal Space: Julie Metz on Memoir as the Key to Locked Family Stories

By The Virtual Book Channel  May 5, 2021
Historical Fiction

How Do You Write a Historical Novel About Under-Documented Lives?

By Emily Hourican  May 5, 2021
So Many Damn Books

Loan Le on Stepping Back into Those Emotional Teen Years to Write a YA Novel

This Week on So Many Damn Books

By So Many Damn Books  May 5, 2021
Punctuation

The Punctuation Marks Loved (and Hated) by Famous Writers

By Emily Temple  May 4, 2021
Diaries

How John Steinbeck’s Diaries Helped Me Write My Debut Novel

By Stacey Swann  May 4, 2021
New Books Network

Greta Kelly on Beauty as Weaponry in The Frozen Crown

By New Books Network  May 7, 2021
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