Juliette Fay on Writing Complex Older Protagonists

Juliette Fay on Writing Complex Older Protagonists

“As that far distant horizon gets closer, however, hopefully we gain the wisdom to know it’s at least worth a try.”

By Juliette Fay | April 12, 2023

The new EIC of ZYZZYVA is ... Oscar Villalon.

The new EIC of ZYZZYVA is ... Oscar Villalon.

By Janet Manley | April 11, 2023

“There is So Much Material Within the Human Race.” Tara Conklin on Writing Funny

“There is So Much Material Within the Human Race.” Tara Conklin on Writing Funny

In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | April 11, 2023

Lit Hub Asks: 5 Writers 7 Questions No Wrong Answers

Lit Hub Asks: 5 Writers 7 Questions No Wrong Answers

Featuring Gina Chung, Katherine Heiny, Brendan Slocumb and More!

By Teddy Wayne | April 11, 2023

Once You Start to Look, You See the Disappeared Are Everywhere

Once You Start to Look, You See the Disappeared Are Everywhere

Andrew Porter on Writing About Growing Older

By Andrew Porter | April 11, 2023

Jinwoo Chong on Executing an Ambitious Book Project

Jinwoo Chong on Executing an Ambitious Book Project

From the Write-minded Podcast, Hosted by Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner

By Memoir Nation | April 11, 2023

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“It Was a Skeleton of a Book.” Marisa Crane on World-Building in Their Debut Novel 

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Novelist Juliette Fay Explains Why Regret is Such Fertile Territory for Fiction Writers

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Baroque, Purple, and Beautiful: In Praise of the Long, Complicated Sentence

By Ed Simon | April 10, 2023

Joy Harjo on Being a Poet and Witness to History

Joy Harjo on Being a Poet and Witness to History

From Her Acceptance Speech for the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award at The National Book Critics Circle Awards

By Joy Harjo | April 10, 2023

Maggie Smith on How She Approached Plot in Her Memoir

Maggie Smith on How She Approached Plot in Her Memoir

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | April 10, 2023

Writing From the Margins: On the Origins and Development of the Lyric Essay

Writing From the Margins: On the Origins and Development of the Lyric Essay

Zoë Bossiere and Erica Trabold Consider Essay Writing as Resistance

By Zoë Bossiere and Erica Trabold | April 10, 2023

Ling Ling Huang on the Similarities Between Classical Music and Fiction Writing

Ling Ling Huang on the Similarities Between Classical Music and Fiction Writing

“Music and writing demand the same things: self-discipline, time, and patience.”

By Ling Ling Huang | April 10, 2023

Charif Shanahan on Making the Unseen Seen through Poetry

Charif Shanahan on Making the Unseen Seen through Poetry

The Poet on His New Collection Trace Evidence

By Literary Hub | April 10, 2023

The Reader is the Only Place That Matters: On the Metaphysical Space Within Literature

The Reader is the Only Place That Matters: On the Metaphysical Space Within Literature

Former Prison Librarian Blair Austin Wonders Where We Go When We Read

By Blair Austin | April 10, 2023

Dani Shapiro on Letting Structure Reveal Itself

Dani Shapiro on Letting Structure Reveal Itself

“You don’t know—you can’t know—whether the bricks you’ve laid on top will be supported by the bricks at the bottom.”

By Dani Shapiro | April 7, 2023

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