• Craft and Advice

    Reading Lists

    Where Do Reading Lists Come From? (And Why Do We Love Them?)

    By William Germano and Kit Nicholls  October 21, 2020
    WMFA

    Jami Attenberg: Your Politics Are Always Going to Show Up in the Work

    By WMFA   October 21, 2020
    Gender and Politics

    On Beauty, Sexual Violence, and Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye

    By Kanako Nishi  October 20, 2020
    Audiobooks

    In Conversation with Actress and Audiobook Narrator Yetide Badaki

    By Traci Currie  October 20, 2020
    Discovering Old Manuscripts

    How a Rare and Ancient Manuscript Moved Me to Write a Novel

    By Natalka Burian  October 19, 2020
    Diaries

    Ricardo Piglia’s Alter Ego on Epidemics of Violence in Argentina

    By Ricardo Piglia  October 19, 2020
    First Draft

    Claire Messud on Chekhov’s Best Advice

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   October 19, 2020
    Young Adult

    Cory Doctorow: Kids Use Reason, Adults Rationalize

    By Cory Doctorow  October 19, 2020
    Short Stories

    A Way to Beat Mortality

    By Shelly Oria  October 19, 2020
    On Craft

    How to Write a Sci-Fi Rock ‘N’ Roll Novel in Rhyming Couplets

    By Jason Guriel  October 19, 2020
    How to Proceed

    George Saunders: Everyone Wants to Be Loved. What Do We Do with That?

    By How to Proceed   October 16, 2020
    On Craft

    How to Write? Don’t… At Least Not Yet

    By Johanna Hedva  October 16, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    The Spontaneous Quarantine Writing that Became a Hit in Japan

    By Barry Yourgrau  October 16, 2020
    NewberyTart

    Kathryn Lasky on the Character Perspective That Most
    Interests Her

    By NewberyTart   October 16, 2020
    The Literary Life

    Allie Brosh: Everybody Wants to Touch Something in the Void…

    By The Literary Life  October 16, 2020
    Otherppl

    How Tori Amos Helped Laura Bogart Channel Vulnerability on the Page

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  October 15, 2020
    The Craft of Writing

    Emily X.R. Pan on How Writing a Short Story Can Lead to a Better Novel

    By Emily X.R. Pan  October 14, 2020
    Reading Women

    Cinelle Barnes on Compiling an Anthology of the South

    By Reading Women  October 14, 2020
    So Many Damn Books

    Rumaan Alam Recommends the Music of Leave the World Behind

    By So Many Damn Books  October 14, 2020
    In Conversation

    Neither of Us Likes Parties: Lynn Strong and Rumaan Alam in Conversation

    By Lynn Steger Strong  October 13, 2020
    On Craft

    Wicked Wouldn’t Have Been What It Is If I Hadn’t Written the Novel by Hand

    By Gregory Maguire  October 13, 2020
    First Draft

    Debra Spark on Doing the Research… Like Asking to See Strangers’ Apartments

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   October 13, 2020
    How to Proceed

    Joyce Carol Oates on the Book (and the Person) That Made Her a Writer

    By How to Proceed   October 9, 2020
    On Writing

    Of the Ways in Which Writing is a Material Labor

    By Nick Kary  October 9, 2020
    New Books Network

    Jasper Fforde on Reckoning with Complicity Through Science Fiction

    By New Books Network  October 9, 2020
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