• Craft and Advice

    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
    The Hub

    “I feel like a tracker in the forest following a scent.” Louise Glück on how she writes.

    By Corinne Segal  October 8, 2020
    The Maris Review

    Silvia Moreno-Garcia on Writing a More Authentic Mexico

    By The Maris Review  October 8, 2020
    Aliens?

    Sayaka Murata on Making Friends with Imaginary Aliens

    By Sayaka Murata  October 7, 2020
    Teaching High School

    How Teachers Build Connections Beyond the Classroom

    By Nick Ripatrazone  October 7, 2020
    Identities

    Heading North to Become
    a Poet

    By Michael Torres  October 7, 2020
    Otherppl

    Why You Won’t Catch Dean Koontz Being Cynical

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  October 7, 2020
    The Literary Salon

    Chris Adrian on Atheist Club at Divinity School

    By Damian Barr's Literary Salon  October 7, 2020
    Children's Literature

    Ramona Quimby and the Art of Writing From a Kid’s Mind

    By Annie Barrows  October 6, 2020
    Neuroscience

    On Learning of My Autism While Trying to Finish a Novel

    By Madeleine Ryan  October 5, 2020
    First Draft

    Rebecca Watson on Authors Being as Gods to Their Characters

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   October 5, 2020
    Well-Versed

    Marilynne Robinson on Writing a Character Without a Carapace

    By Well-Versed   October 2, 2020
    The Maris Review

    Ayad Akhtar on a New Kind
    of Autofiction

    By The Maris Review  October 1, 2020
    Otherppl

    Steven Dunn on Coming Back to Reading Through Rap and Nikki Giovanni

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  October 1, 2020
    On Poetry

    Brittle Mac Keyboards, the True Enemy of Letters

    By Jeremy Sigler  September 30, 2020
    WMFA

    Why Jennifer Haigh Won’t Be Disclosing the Location of Her Writing Studio

    By WMFA   September 30, 2020
    First Draft

    David Szalay: When One Central Character Isn’t Enough

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   September 28, 2020
    On Poetry

    I Made a Book of Erasure Poems Out of Stephen King’s Misery

    By Sarah J. Sloat  September 25, 2020
    The Literary Life

    Carl Hiaasen on Satire as a Product of Anger

    By The Literary Life  September 25, 2020
    Mighty SONG Writers

    WATCH: Matt Quinn of Mt. Joy on Musical Storytelling and Early Influences

    By Literary Hub  September 23, 2020
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