• Craft and Advice

    Criticism

    How A Reader’s Feminist Critique Changed My Sci-Fi Novel

    By Daniel Price  July 6, 2017
    Biography

    I Bought Sam Shepard’s Clothes Off the Internet

    By John Winters  June 30, 2017
    Craft

    Refusing to Let Go of My Characters

    By Scott Spencer  June 29, 2017
    Advice

    The Pessimist’s Guide to Literary Wedding Toasts

    By Emily Temple  June 28, 2017
    Craft

    Why is it So Difficult to Define the Essay?

    By Nicole B. Wallack  June 28, 2017
    Craft

    If a Bear Shows Up in the First Act, He Better Eat Someone in the Second

    By Tom Bouman  June 27, 2017
    Craft

    When a Lifelong Editor Becomes a Novelist

    By Karen Rinaldi  June 23, 2017
    Politics

    Reading Across America: Making Things Political

    By Natalka Burian  June 23, 2017
    Did you know?

    10 Famous Book Hoarders

    By Emily Temple  June 22, 2017
    Travel

    A Tourist in My Own Book

    By Rebecca Entel  June 22, 2017
    Personal Essay

    Lunch with Beckett, Drinks with Genet, and a Lifelong Love of Books

    By John J. Healey  June 21, 2017
    Short story writers

    Shorter, Faster, Better: On the Beauty of Literary Compression

    By Olivia Clare Friedman  June 20, 2017
    Starting out

    False Starts, or This Novel-Writing Shit Isn’t Easy

    By Don Lee  June 15, 2017
    Advice

    5 Reasons Why a Writer Should Move to St. Paul

    By Maya Beck  June 15, 2017
    Craft

    When “Interesting” Isn’t Interesting

    By Chris Townsend  June 14, 2017
    Craft

    Balancing Bollywood Inspiration with American Expectations

    By SJ Sindu  June 14, 2017
    Profile

    Jill Eisenstadt on Surviving the Literary Brat Pack

    By Jill Eisenstadt  June 9, 2017
    Inspiration

    How An 80-Year-Old Murder Inspired My Present-Day Novel

    By Rosecrans Baldwin  June 8, 2017
    Craft

    What Makes a Ghost Story Effective?

    By Gail Godwin  June 8, 2017
    Where to Go

    Joseph Kanon: There Is No Better Place to Write than the Library

    By Joe Kanon  June 8, 2017
    Craft

    Jennifer Weiner: From Small-Town Beat Reporter to Big City Columnist

    By Jennifer Weiner  June 7, 2017
    Personal Essay

    How Making a Movie Made Me Fall in Love with Writing Novels Again

    By Robyn Harding  June 7, 2017
    Craft

    How to Write an Internet Essay to Support Your Novel

    By Gabe Habash  June 5, 2017
    Craft

    My Beautiful Oubliette: The Difficulty of Being a Writer in Prison

    By Dean Faiello  June 5, 2017
    Personal Essay

    What Reading Robert Pirsig Taught Me About Writing (And Life)

    By Bernadette Murphy  June 5, 2017
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