• Craft and Advice

    Research

    How an Irish Syntactical Peculiarity Helped Me Find My Protagonist’s Voice

    By Kia Corthron  August 27, 2021
    The Common

    Jose Hernandez Diaz on the Surrealism of Prose Poetry

    By The Common  August 27, 2021
    How a Person Should Be

    Wayne Koestenbaum Would Like to Thank Dreams and Nouns

    By Wayne Koestenbaum  August 26, 2021
    The Maris Review

    Matthew Salesses: If We’re Going to Tell Stories About the World, We Need to Make Better Decisions

    By The Maris Review  August 26, 2021
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Eve Gleichman and Laura Blackett in Conversation with Joshua Henkin

    By The Virtual Book Channel  August 26, 2021
    Otherppl

    Katie Crouch in Praise of the Not-Perfectly-Plotted Novel

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  August 25, 2021
    The Hub

    “No revision, no second thoughts. Already I am terrified.” Jean Rhys on writing and life.

    By Snigdha Koirala  August 24, 2021
    Writers on Writers

    Honorée Fanonne Jeffers on Writing Place and Juggling Projects

    By Jane Ciabattari  August 24, 2021
    Grief

    My Year of Mourning: Mapping the Full Cycle of the Loss of My Father

    By Merissa Nathan Gerson  August 23, 2021
    Inspiration

    The Sound of Muses: On Literary Comebacks and the Importance of Listening with Purpose

    By Louis Edwards  August 23, 2021
    Fathers and Sons

    When the Dismissive Editor in Your Head Is Your Father

    By Jonathan Wells  August 20, 2021
    The Maris Review

    Megan Abbott on the Dark Underworld of Ballet

    By The Maris Review  August 19, 2021
    Otherppl

    Sam Cohen on Creating a Conceit of Sarahs

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  August 19, 2021
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Nimmi Gowrinathan in Conversation with John Freeman

    By The Virtual Book Channel  August 19, 2021
    The Craft of Writing

    What Makes a Great First Sentence?

    By Alice McDermott  August 18, 2021
    Identity

    On Romanizing Korean Names and Writing Immigrant Stories in an Acquired Language

    By Yoon Choi  August 18, 2021
    Author Photos

    On Learning to Take Author Photos Remotely During the Pandemic

    By Beowulf Sheehan  August 18, 2021
    Thresholds

    Deesha Philyaw on Leaving a Marriage While Writing a Short Story Collection

    By Thresholds   August 18, 2021
    Inspiration

    My Shadow Book: On Consciously—or Unconsciously—Immortalizing Ex-Partners in Literary Fiction

    By Andrew Palmer  August 17, 2021
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Tod Goldberg on Being Ruled By Your Own Game

    By The Virtual Book Channel  August 17, 2021
    Fan Culture

    Fascist Fandom and Raging Incels: Tracing the Baffling Nerd-to-White-Nationalist Pipeline

    By A.E. Osworth  August 16, 2021
    America

    The Cognitive Dissonance of America: Writing Through the Terror of Trumpland

    By Brian Castleberry  August 16, 2021
    Genealogy

    How I Tracked Down the Hidden Lives of the Radical, Wealthy Morris Sisters

    By Julie Klam  August 16, 2021
    Police

    Fictionalizing a Dark Chapter in the History of Milwaukee Policing

    By Willa C. Richards  August 13, 2021
    Writing Life

    The Loneliness of the Full-Time Writer

    By Mike Gayle  August 13, 2021
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