• Craft and Advice

    Fatherhood

    Learning to Write About Your Own Children

    By Wayne Miller  June 24, 2021
    Cartoons

    Magnificent Obsession: On Black Humor and the Necessary Lessons I Learned as a Cartoonist

    By Charles Johnson  June 24, 2021
    Interview with a Journal

    Interview with a Journal: Boston Review

    By Vanessa Willoughby  June 24, 2021
    The Maris Review

    Joan Silber on the Dangers of Parochialism

    By The Maris Review  June 24, 2021
    Psychology

    The Gift and Curse of Being a Truth-Teller: On Receiving an Autism Diagnosis as an Adult

    By Michelle Gallen  June 24, 2021
    Book Dreams

    Jesse Q. Sutanto on Finding the Line Between Authenticity and Stereotype

    By Book Dreams  June 24, 2021
    On Writing

    What If Procrastination Is an Essential Part of Our Writing Process?

    By Amy Sackville  June 23, 2021
    Writers on Writers

    Jenny Lawson on Mental Health, Writer’s Block, and Her Unofficial Role as Den Mother of Misfits

    By John Scalzi  June 23, 2021
    Quotations

    Towards the Heart of a Book: In Praise of the Epigraph

    By Thomas Swick  June 23, 2021
    Otherppl

    Forrest Gander on the Investment and Involvement Required of Reading Poetry

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  June 23, 2021
    Religion

    How Writing a Novel About the Evangelical Church Helped Me Grieve the Loss of My Religion

    By Kelsey McKinney  June 23, 2021
    Reading Women

    Kristen Arnett on the Loneliness of Queer Parenting in Red States

    By Reading Women  June 23, 2021
    Thresholds

    Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore in Praise of Unconventional Writing Practices

    By Thresholds   June 23, 2021
    The Hub

    This is Octavia Butler’s best writing advice.

    By Vanessa Willoughby  June 22, 2021
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Brandon Taylor: Writer’s Block Is Not Tragic (It’s a Part of Life)

    By Literary Hub  June 22, 2021
    Medieval History

    What a 13th-Century Medieval Text Can Teach Us About Queerness and Gender

    By Alex Myers  June 22, 2021
    Greek Mythology

    Telling the True Stories of Ancient Greece Through Fiction

    By Claire Heywood  June 22, 2021
    Writers on Writers

    Yan Lianke on Intoxicated Revolutionaries and the Importance of
    “Literary Distance”

    By An Yu  June 21, 2021
    The History of Literature

    The Top 10 Things to Love About Hamlet

    By History of Literature  June 21, 2021
    How to Write

    Why Budding Writers Should Be Less Precious—and More Cutthroat—with Their Drafts

    By Roy Peter Clark  June 21, 2021
    First Draft

    Diane Seuss: Does Language Eclipse Feeling?

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   June 21, 2021
    Craft

    Ten Things Writers Need to Create Convincing Characters

    By Robert McKee  June 18, 2021
    Parenting and Writing

    When an Avowed Helicopter Parent Writes a Novel About Imperiled Children

    By Jonathan Evison  June 18, 2021
    New Books Network

    Andy Weir on the Problem of Interstellar Travel

    By New Books Network  June 18, 2021
    The Craft of Writing

    Marie-Helene Bertino on Using Humor to Connect with Readers

    By Marie-Helene Bertino  June 18, 2021
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