• Craft and Advice

    Flying

    How Flight Embodies Our Deepest Yearning

    By Richard Farrell  June 25, 2020
    Writing Conferences

    Wandering Through Literary Lisbon in Search of Pessoa’s Disquiet

    By Thomas Swick  June 24, 2020
    Language

    I Can’t Believe Readers Are Still Getting Upset Over F*cking Swearing

    By Amy Poeppel  June 22, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    Someone is Wrong on the Internet: A Study in Pandemic Distraction

    By Irina Dumitrescu  June 19, 2020
    The Art of the List

    Emily Temple on Translating a Decade of Internet Writing into a Debut Novel

    By Emily Temple  June 16, 2020
    Reading Lists

    Changing Me to We: We Should All Try Writing in the First Person Plural

    By Sharon Harrigan  June 12, 2020
    Literary History

    How Do You Write About a Woman Who Loathed the Spotlight?

    By Alice Miller  June 11, 2020
    Poets

    On the Radical Afterlives of William Wordsworth

    By Jonathan Bate  June 10, 2020
    Food Writing

    In Praise of Digression, Both Literary and Culinary

    By Thom Eagle  June 5, 2020
    Essayists

    Sejal Shah on the Tricky Work of Giving Shape to an Essay Collection

    By Anjali Enjeti  June 1, 2020
    Gentrification

    My Detroit Novel Was Shelved Until the Millennials Came

    By Michael Zadoorian  May 29, 2020
    Women Writers

    How Mary Oppen Rewrote the Role of the Artist’s Wife

    By Abby Walthausen  May 28, 2020
    WWII

    A Feminist Vision of War, from a Long-Buried Correspondence

    By Oswyn Murray  May 28, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    Showing High Schoolers That Yes, Structure is Essential

    By Nick Ripatrazone  May 28, 2020
    5 Questions

    Emma Straub Wants to Abolish Reading-Related Guilt

    By Literary Hub  May 21, 2020
    Audiobooks

    Steven Weber on Finding a Career in Audiobooks

    By Literary Hub  May 18, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    Finding Space for Art in
    Dark Times

    By Megan Margulies  May 7, 2020
    Gig Economy

    Michael Arceneaux on the Value of Exposure and Living
    Gig to Gig

    By Michael Arceneaux  May 7, 2020
    Failure

    What Pop Stars Can Teach Writers About Failure

    By Jennifer Keishin Armstrong  May 6, 2020
    The Internet

    On the Relief of Ignoring the Internet in Fiction

    By Joyce Hinnefeld  May 6, 2020
    Social Media

    Jennifer Weiner on Representations of Fatness and the Line Between Affirmation and Self-Loathing

    By Jennifer Weiner  May 5, 2020
    The Writing Life

    Two Novels, Two Global Catastrophes,
    Two Decades Apart

    By Lee Durkee  April 27, 2020
    Theater

    Writerly Lessons From an Early ’90s Improv Class

    By Joanna Hershon  April 27, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    In Teaching Stories of Disaster, Hope Lies Hidden in Plain Sight

    By Jane Costlow  April 24, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    Book Tour in the Early Days
    of Coronavirus

    By Gabriel Bump  April 23, 2020
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