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Getting Reinspired to Write... Again... For the New Year!

Getting Reinspired to Write... Again... For the New Year!

Listen to Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner on Write-Minded

By Memoir Nation | January 3, 2023

Judith Thurman on Elena Ferrante and Writing That Rattles the Cage of Gender

Judith Thurman on Elena Ferrante and Writing That Rattles the Cage of Gender

"This body of work defies the conventions of writing 'like a woman' as radically as did Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein."

By Judith Thurman | December 23, 2022

The Forty Year Kiss: Nickolas Butler on Why People-Watching Is Writing

The Forty Year Kiss: Nickolas Butler on Why People-Watching Is Writing

“All novelists are spies or should be.”

By Nickolas Butler | December 23, 2022

Casting Symbolic Intimacy: How TV Can Help Us Get Better at Zoom

Casting Symbolic Intimacy: How TV Can Help Us Get Better at Zoom

Allison Wyss on The Magicians, The Brady Bunch, and Magical Connection

By Allison Wyss | December 23, 2022

The Legacy of ISIS: Dunya Mikhail on Yazidi Women Captives in Iraq

The Legacy of ISIS: Dunya Mikhail on Yazidi Women Captives in Iraq

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | December 22, 2022

Hervé Tullet Reflects on a Career of Creating Creatively Unconventional Children’s Literature

Hervé Tullet Reflects on a Career of Creating Creatively Unconventional Children’s Literature

"Like in a publicity stunt, the strength of the image gives all the explanation necessary."

By Hervé Tullet | December 21, 2022

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Crow, Donkey, Poet: Sumana Roy on the Useless in the Poetic

By Sumana Roy | December 21, 2022

Rae Meadows on Immersing Herself in the World of Soviet Gymnastics

By Jane Ciabattari | December 20, 2022

Martin Dyar on the Intersections of Poetry and Medicine

By Martin Dyar | December 20, 2022

Peter Orner and Emma Cline Discuss Endings, Memory, and Writing Against Classification

Peter Orner and Emma Cline Discuss Endings, Memory, and Writing Against Classification

“A last line isn’t the last line, it’s just the last one we say out loud.”

By Emma Cline | December 19, 2022

Namwali Serpell on the “Uncanny Rhythm” of Poetry and Grief

Namwali Serpell on the “Uncanny Rhythm” of Poetry and Grief

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | December 19, 2022

Dave Chesson on Having Fun with Book Marketing

Dave Chesson on Having Fun with Book Marketing

From the Write-minded Podcast, Hosted by Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner

By Memoir Nation | December 19, 2022

What Makes Writing Valuable?

What Makes Writing Valuable?

William Pierce Addresses a Fraught Subject

By William Pierce | December 16, 2022

Jess Walter on the Highsmithian Principles of Suspense

Jess Walter on the Highsmithian Principles of Suspense

On Drama, Suspense, Violence, Psychology, and a Dose of Soul

By Jess Walter | December 16, 2022

Silencing the Technology Beast: Priyanka Kumar on Sinking Into Time While Writing

Silencing the Technology Beast: Priyanka Kumar on Sinking Into Time While Writing

“Sometimes I think about the fortunate writers who didn’t have to contend with our amplified level of distractions.”

By Priyanka Kumar | December 16, 2022

Life Advice for Book Lovers: For a Dose of Optimism, Read This.

Life Advice for Book Lovers: For a Dose of Optimism, Read This.

Book Recommendations for the Troubled Soul

By Dorothea | December 15, 2022

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