• Craft and Advice

    On Reading

    How Music and Verse Can Spark Literary Passion in Reluctant Readers

    Alicia D. Williams on the Many Written and Oral Forms a Story Can Take

     
    By Alicia D. Williams  April 24, 2024
    The Writing Life

    The Pilgrim’s (Lack of) Progress, Or, Sorry I Took So Long to Finish My Novel, Or, On the Value of Restarting

    By Justin Taylor  April 23, 2024
    Banned Books

    Yan Lianke Wants You to Stop Describing Him As China’s Most Censored Author

    By Yan Lianke  April 23, 2024
    In Conversation

    Sasha Vasilyuk on the Price of Secrecy in Russia and Ukraine

    By Jane Ciabattari  April 23, 2024
    First Draft

    Marie Mutsuki Mockett on Writing About Sex

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   April 22, 2024
    Write-minded

    Stacey D’Erasmo on the Art of Intimacy

    By Write-minded   April 22, 2024
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    The Myth of the Middle Class Writer

    How Much is Enough? On the Writerly Balance Between Money and Time

    By Ryan Chapman  April 19, 2024
    Libraries

    An Oasis in the Desert: Why Libraries Are the Best Places to Write

    By Rahul Mehta  April 19, 2024
    The Myth of the Middle Class Writer

    Writing As Labor: Doing More With Less, Together

    By David Hill  April 18, 2024
    Relationships

    When Writing Your Novel (Maybe) Manifests Your Breakup

    Hazel Hayes on Seeing Her Characters’ Relationship Problems Mirror Her Own

    By Hazel Hayes  April 24, 2024
    On Grief

    Facing That Which Haunts You: Ethel Rohan on Writing About Grief

    By Ethel Rohan  April 18, 2024
    The Myth of the Middle Class Writer

    The Money Diaries: Real Writers, Real Budgets

    By Literary Hub  April 17, 2024
    The Myth of the Middle Class Writer

    In Service: Writers on Making Ends Meet in the Service Industry

    By Literary Hub  April 17, 2024
    craft advice

    Why Television Can Be Our Best Writing Teacher

    Christine Ma-Kellams on What She’s Learned From the Small Screen

    By Christine Ma-Kellams  April 17, 2024
    The History of Literature

    Margot Livesey on Thomas Hardy’s Mistakes

    By History of Literature  April 17, 2024
    Audiobooks

    The Sound of C: On Giving a Voice to the Words of Others

    By Lissa Soep  April 16, 2024
    Writing the Book

    Brianna Pastor Had to Write About Her Grief and Shame to Begin Healing

    By Brianna Pastor  April 16, 2024
    The Writing Life

    How To Write Egoless Prose, At Least For a Little While

    Steve Almond Offers Some Strategies to Help Make Writer’s Block Work For You

    By Steve Almond  April 15, 2024
    First Draft

    Julia Alvarez on Mortality

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   April 15, 2024
    Write-minded

    John McMurtrie on the State of the Book Review

    By Write-minded   April 15, 2024
    Craft of Writing

    50 Ways to End a Poem

    By Emily Skaja  April 12, 2024
    In Conversation

    Busting Genre, in Style: Geoff Dyer on the Joy of Writing “Unpublishable” Books

    George Makari Talks to the Author of “The Last Days of Roger Federer: And Other Endings”

    By George Makari  April 11, 2024
    Cultural Identity

    Opa! It’s All Greek to Me! Subverting the Tropes of Greek Culture in Media

    By Henriette Lazaridis  April 11, 2024
    The Writing Life

    Against Journaling: Dennis Tang on the Joys of Not Writing It All Down

    By Dennis Tang  April 11, 2024
    Am I the Literary Asshole?

    My “Friend” Keeps Sending Me Their Writing and I Need It To Stop: Am I the Literary Asshole?

    By Kristen Arnett  April 18, 2024
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