• Craft and Advice

    NewberyTart

    How Grace Lin’s Mom Coaxed Her Into Reading Chinese Stories

    By NewberyTart   February 23, 2021
    The History of Literature

    Anna North on Reimagining a Wild West… That’s Good to Mothers

    By History of Literature  February 22, 2021
    Literary Criticism

    Nicola Barker is Our Great Post-Punk Novelist

    By Brian Castleberry  February 22, 2021
    First Draft

    Why Eley Williams Recommends Reading Dictionaries Cover to Cover

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   February 22, 2021
    Interview with an Indie Press

    Interview with an Indie Press:
    Milkweed Editions

    By Corinne Segal  February 19, 2021
    Libraries

    Getting Lost in the Libraries of Paris Researching WWII

    By Janet Skeslien Charles  February 19, 2021
    The Literary Life

    Tim Dorsey on Writing About Florida as a Floridian

    By The Literary Life  February 19, 2021
    New Books Network

    Kathleen Williams Renk Recreates the Inner World of Mary Shelley

    By New Books Network  February 18, 2021
    On Craft

    The Best Sex I Ever Had Was (Also) a Narrative Structure

    By Helen Betya Rubinstein  February 17, 2021
    Character

    Why I Wrote a Novel Full of Secondary Characters

    By María José Ferrada  February 17, 2021
    Identity

    Struggling in Workshop with the Question of Cultural Appropriation

    By Paisley Rekdal  February 16, 2021
    Life in a Pandemic

    Locked Down in Denmark, Learning a Language and Finishing a Novel

    By Maria Adelmann  February 16, 2021
    First Draft

    Te-Ping Chen: The Lived of Experience of China is More Brave New World Than 1984

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   February 16, 2021
    Art and Politics

    No Failure of Imagination: Gina Apostol on Revolution, Illusion, and Translation

    By Sabina Murray  February 16, 2021
    Research

    How Being an Airbnb Host and Cleaning Toilets Helped Me Write a Novel

    By Kate Russo  February 12, 2021
    Chinese Literature

    On the Connection Between Chinese Folktales and American Comic Book Heroes

    By Gene Luen Yang  February 11, 2021
    The Maris Review

    Brandon Hobson on Getting to the Truth Through Surreality

    By The Maris Review  February 11, 2021
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    ‘A Certain Kind of Hunger’: Chang-rae Lee on Writing Connection While We’re Worlds Apart

    By Fiction Non Fiction  February 11, 2021
    On Writing

    From Stage to Screen to Page… A Few Notes on Writing Across Media

    By Jen Silverman  February 11, 2021
    Well-Versed

    Thomas Grattan on Writing a Joyful Queer Protagonist

    By Well-Versed   February 11, 2021
    Reading Women

    Emma Copley Eisenberg on the Whiteness and Straightness Embedded in True Crime

    By Reading Women  February 10, 2021
    The Writing Life

    Vendela Vida on Finding Humor in the Darker Side of
    Teenage Life

    By Jane Ciabattari  February 9, 2021
    Character Development

    How to Keep Track of Your Characters With Index Cards, String, and a Lot of Clothes Pins

    By Bee Sacks  February 9, 2021
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Joyce Carol Oates Thinks You Should Write Your Heart Out

    By Literary Hub  February 9, 2021
    So Many Damn Books

    Jenny Offill: Everyone’s Always Hoping for Some Kind of Plot

    By So Many Damn Books  February 9, 2021
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