Craft and Advice

The Virtual Book Channel

WATCH: A. Natasha Joukovsky in Conversation with Lauren Oyler

Hosted by Greenlight Bookstore

 
By The Virtual Book Channel  July 23, 2021
Gender

On Freaks and Geeks and Finding My Voice: How Pop Culture Shaped My Poetry

By Matt Mitchell  July 22, 2021
The Maris Review

Why Yaa Gyasi Wants Us to Remember the Brain Is an Organ

By The Maris Review  July 22, 2021
Book Dreams

Native Comedian Adrianne Chalepah Against Pandering to White Audiences

By Book Dreams  July 22, 2021
Otherppl

Reginald Dwayne Betts on Living Between the Poles of Yale-Educated Lawyer and Prison-Educated Poet

By Otherppl with Brad Listi  July 21, 2021
Thresholds

Rivka Galchen on Her Instinct to Abandon Projects

By Thresholds   July 21, 2021
Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
The Hub

8 storytelling tips all writers could learn from the legendary Zola Twitter thread turned hit movie.

By Vanessa Willoughby  July 20, 2021
Pain

Rachel Yoder on Navigating Chronic Pain Through Storytelling

By Rachel Yoder  July 20, 2021
So Many Damn Books

Rosecrans Baldwin on Los Angeles, Wittgenstein, and Melancholy

By So Many Damn Books  July 20, 2021
Post-Apocalyptic Lit

Writing a Fictionalized Apocalypse Does Not Prepare You For a Real One

Geoff Rodkey on Accepting the Realities of Civilization-Ending Calamity

By Geoff Rodkey  July 23, 2021
New Books Network

Sarah Gailey on the Horror and Wonder of Self-Reflection

By New Books Network  July 16, 2021
The Maris Review

Kristen Radtke on the Biology of Loneliness

By The Maris Review  July 15, 2021
The Hub

Roberto Bolaño’s best advice for writing short stories is . . . pretty wild.

By Emily Temple  July 14, 2021
Storytelling

Plot Is Just Music You Sing In Your Mind: How Popular Rock Songs Can Help Shape Your Novel

Katie Crouch on Structure, Character Development, and the Band CAKE

By Katie Crouch  July 14, 2021
Thresholds

Kaveh Akbar on Getting Sober and the Supernatural Language of Writing

By Thresholds   July 14, 2021
Tor Presents: Voyage Into Genre

Voyage Into Genre with T. L. Huchu, P. Djèlí Clark, and Kamau Ware

By Tor Presents: Voyage Into Genre   July 14, 2021
Otherppl

Matt Bell on Solving Crises Through Speculative Fiction (and Having Fun Doing It)

By Otherppl with Brad Listi  July 14, 2021
Writers on Writers

Dana Spiotta on Turning to James Joyce for Inspiration and the Power of Cultural Reckonings

The Author of Wayward in Conversation with Jane Ciabattari

By Jane Ciabattari  July 13, 2021
Lit Hub Questionnaire

Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

By Teddy Wayne  July 13, 2021
Humor

To Write a Comic Novel, I Had to Shed the Weight of Expectation (and Adopt a New Name)

By Tahmima Anam  July 13, 2021
Family Histories

What Writing the Story of a Divorce Taught Me About My Own

By Joyce Maynard  July 12, 2021
First Draft

Steven Pressfield on the Artist
as Warrior

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   July 12, 2021
The Literary Life

Richard Flanagan on Writing (and Rewriting) Through the Devastating Bushfires in Tasmania and Australia

By The Literary Life  July 9, 2021
The Quarantine Tapes

Rebecca Mead on Finding Ways to Keep Reporting Through Lockdown

By The Quarantine Tapes  July 9, 2021
First Draft

Michael Kleber-Diggs on Connecting to the World Through Poetry

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   July 19, 2021
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