• Craft and Advice

    The Hub

    Here’s 33 writers on why they write.

    By Walker Caplan  January 6, 2021
    Drafts

    What Really Goes On in a Writer’s Notebook?

    By Danielle McLaughlin  January 6, 2021
    Otherppl

    George Saunders on How You Know When the Talking Spider Belongs in the Story

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  January 6, 2021
    Anti-racism

    How to Build an Antiracist Workshop

    By Felicia Rose Chavez  January 6, 2021
    Parenting and Writing

    Has the Parent Plot Ousted the Marriage Plot in Contemporary Fiction?

    By Peter Ho Davies  January 5, 2021
    On Craft

    How to Render Epiphanies in Nonfiction Without Getting Didactic

    By Randon Billings Noble  January 4, 2021
    First Draft

    Emma Glass on the Ghost Story (and Nursing Career) That Inspired Her Novel

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   January 4, 2021
    The Literary Life

    Daniel Halpern on 50 Years of Ecco Press

    By The Literary Life  January 4, 2021
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Claire Messud and Brendan O’Meara on Creative Nonfiction in an Era of ‘Fake News’

    By Fiction Non Fiction  December 31, 2020
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Kiese Laymon: Precious Writers Have Omission, Not Subtext

    By The Quarantine Tapes  December 28, 2020
    The Maris Review

    Maggie Smith on Finding Hope on Twitter

    By The Maris Review  December 28, 2020
    First Draft

    Kwame Alexander on Learning, from a Young Age, to ‘Use His Words’

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   December 28, 2020
    Bookable

    Rumaan Alam on Writing a Book That Doesn’t Explain Itself

    By Bookable   December 23, 2020
    First Draft

    Danielle Evans on Writing Into Power Dynamics

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   December 21, 2020
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Cathy Song on the Slowness and Ritual-Making of Lockdown

    By The Quarantine Tapes  December 18, 2020
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Hope on the Horizon: Charles Baxter and Mike Alberti on Despair and Renewal in Fiction

    By Fiction Non Fiction  December 17, 2020
    Identity

    Casey Plett: What Does It
    Mean to Belong?

    By Literary Hub  December 17, 2020
    WMFA

    Danielle Evans on Writing the Subterranean Story

    By WMFA   December 17, 2020
    The Maris Review

    Jess Walter on the Challenge of the Contemporary Novelist (Well, One of Them Anyway)

    By The Maris Review  December 17, 2020
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Harryette Mullen on Finding Her Poems as She Walks Through Los Angeles

    By The Quarantine Tapes  December 17, 2020
    Readings

    On the Fringes of Bogotá: A Reading Unlike Any Other

    By Eduardo Halfon  December 16, 2020
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Kim Stafford on Poetry
    as Service

    By The Quarantine Tapes  December 16, 2020
    Reading Women

    How the 2016 Election Led to Lyssa Kay Adams’s Bromance Book Club

    By Reading Women  December 16, 2020
    Otherppl

    Alex Branson: Treat Your Characters As People, Not Vessels of Forgiveness

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  December 16, 2020
    So Many Damn Books

    Emily Temple on Trippy Fiction and Summer Camps as Cults

    By So Many Damn Books  December 15, 2020
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