• Craft and Advice

    On Writing

    Helen Oyeyemi Finds the World of Her Novel on the Train

    By Kristin Iversen  April 7, 2021
    Inspiration

    On the Bruce Springsteen Song That Reinvigorated My Writing

    By Natalie Standiford  April 7, 2021
    Writing Life

    On Finding the Balance Between Solitude and Community at an MFA Program

    By Sanjena Sathian  April 7, 2021
    Otherppl

    Gina Frangello: The Case Against Self-Flagellation in Memoir

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  April 7, 2021
    Women Writers

    Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney on First Drafts and Battling Writer’s Block

    By Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney  April 6, 2021
    So Many Damn Books

    K.M. Szpara on Borrowing from Nietzsche to Title His
    New Novel

    By So Many Damn Books  April 6, 2021
    First Draft

    Carol Edgarian: We Write from Our Own Urgency, Our Own Questions

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   April 5, 2021
    Letters

    The Unique Pleasures of Letter-Writing in a Era of Impulsive Interaction

    By Jackie Polzin  April 2, 2021
    Patriarchy

    Melissa Febos on How Patriarchy and Capitalism Conspire Against Women

    By Elizabeth Lothian  April 2, 2021
    Addiction

    The Addict as Archaeologist: Telling the Hard Stories of Family Tragedy

    By Steven Wingate  April 2, 2021
    Craft

    How Do Writers Without Access to Books Develop a Craft?

    By Sulaiman Addonia  April 1, 2021
    The Maris Review

    Jo Ann Beard: What We’re Writing When We Write Personal Essays

    By The Maris Review  April 1, 2021
    Letters

    Inside the Long Friendship of James Merrill and
    Elizabeth Bishop

    By James Merrill  April 1, 2021
    Representation

    This Must Be the Place: On the Transcendent Refuge of the Musical Past

    By Dawnie Walton  April 1, 2021
    Book Origins

    Why I Decided to Write Fiction and Publish a Debut Novel
    in My 80s

    By Orville Schell  April 1, 2021
    Reading Lists

    The Anxiety of Influence: On the Few Books I Was Able to Read While Writing My Own

    By Marcia Butler  April 1, 2021
    Storytelling

    On the Valuable Writing Lessons I Learned as a Television Reporter

    By Nancy Johnson  April 1, 2021
    Incarcerated Writers

    Writing a Novel in Prison. In 30 Days. During a Pandemic.

    By Marya Brennan  March 31, 2021
    Reading Women

    Hala Alyan: Which Comes First—the Characters or the Politics?

    By Reading Women  March 31, 2021
    Book Origins

    On the Narrative Thrills of Detective Fiction

    By Amanda Dennis  March 31, 2021
    Immigration stories

    Gabriela Garcia on the Interplay Between Literature and Class Consciousness

    By Jane Ciabattari  March 30, 2021
    Motherhood

    A Room of One’s Own Sounds Great… But What If You’re a Mom?

    By Ilona Bannister  March 30, 2021
    Mothers and Daughters

    Bridged: How the Art of Writing Can Close the Divide Between Worlds

    By Jennifer De Leon  March 29, 2021
    First Draft

    Dantiel W. Moniz on Imposter Syndrome and the Morbidity
    of Girlhood

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   March 29, 2021
    The Hub

    The best writing advice I’ve ever read comes from Robert Frost.

    By Emily Temple  March 26, 2021
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