Craft and Advice

Lit Crit

In Defense of Writing Books That May Never Be Read

Mark de Silva: “That language fails to capture experience is no cause for disappointment.”

 
By Mark de Silva  January 27, 2021
Thresholds

Margo Jefferson: ‘If I Can’t Find a Way to Do That… Why Am I Writing a Memoir?’

By Thresholds   January 27, 2021
Otherppl

Te-Ping Chen on Finding Moments of Magical Realism in China

By Otherppl with Brad Listi  January 27, 2021
Literary Criticism

Joan Didion: Why I Write

By Joan Didion  January 26, 2021
Book Origins

How Do We Write About Political Crisis and Personal Conflict?

By Carys Davies  January 26, 2021
So Many Damn Books

Mateo Askaripour on Sorry to Bother You and Giving Up the Scarcity Mindset

By So Many Damn Books  January 26, 2021
Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
The Quarantine Tapes

What James Baldwin Taught Nikky Finney About the Poet’s Responsibility to the Living

By The Quarantine Tapes  January 25, 2021
Literary Tradition

Writing a Saudi American Novel When No One Has Done It Before

By Eman Quotah  January 25, 2021
First Draft

Peter Ho Davies on Writing a Book That Hovers Between Fiction and Fact

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   January 25, 2021
The Writing Life

Embracing Imperfection: On Writing in a Second Language

Kaori Fujimoto Recounts the Challenges of Finding Her Voice
in a Different Tongue

By Kaori Fujimoto  January 27, 2021
Interview with a Poet

Martín Espada on Framing the Present Through the Lens of the Past

By Peter Mishler  January 22, 2021
The Maris Review

Mateo Askaripour on the Manifest Destiny of Startups

By The Maris Review  January 21, 2021
On Grief

Resisting the Badge of ‘Resilience’ in the Wake of a Devastating Loss

By Emily Rapp Black  January 20, 2021
Otherppl

Rob Doyle: What Happened to Expecting Candor from Writers?

In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl

By Otherppl with Brad Listi  January 20, 2021
Reading Women

R. F. Kuang: How a Hidden History Became a Fantasy Trilogy

By Reading Women  January 20, 2021
On Craft

25 Essential Notes on Craft from Matthew Salesses

By Matthew Salesses  January 19, 2021
First Draft

Mark Wunderlich on the Resurrecting Powers of Poetry

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   January 19, 2021
Climate Change

Writing the Human Element Into Climate Change Via Those Most At Risk

Claire Holroyde on the Wayãpi of the Nipukú River and
Her Debut Novel

By Claire Holroyde  January 15, 2021
New Books Network

Why Kim Stanley Robinson Wrote a New Cli-Fi Novel… in Which Things Actually Get Better

By New Books Network  January 15, 2021
Writing Advice

In Favor of Speed:
Write Fast, Fix Later

By Mateo Askaripour  January 14, 2021
The Writer's Life

Caitlin Horrocks on Life in Michigan, the Love of Sleep, and Novels vs. Short Stories

By Jane Ciabattari  January 14, 2021
The Maris Review

George Saunders Wants You to Accept Your Flaws (Writing and Otherwise)

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review  January 14, 2021
On Memoir

On Putting the Most Vulnerable Parts of Yourself on the Page

By Justine Cowan  January 14, 2021
Creativity

Looking to Nurture Your Artistic Self? Go On an Artist Date

By Julia Cameron  January 14, 2021
Reading Habits

Why Should We Read Unfinished Novels?

By Matthew Redmond  January 22, 2021
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