• Craft and Advice

    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
    Oral Histories

    What Can Fiction Do That Oral Histories Cannot?

    By Mauro Javier Cárdenas  December 14, 2020
    First Draft

    Cynan Jones on the Strange Visions That Appear in
    His Novels

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   December 14, 2020
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Jorie Graham: Are We Still Capable of Being Custodians of the Future?

    By The Quarantine Tapes  December 11, 2020
    New Books Network

    Evan Winter on the Trap of Exceptionalism in His Trilogy (and Life)

    By New Books Network  December 11, 2020
    Sci-Fi and Fantasy

    Andrzej Sapkowski on the Mythologies Behind The Witcher

    By Literary Hub  December 10, 2020
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