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Why I Had to Get Older to Write About Youth

Why I Had to Get Older to Write About Youth

Allegra Goodman on Finding the Necessary Distance to Write up Close

By Allegra Goodman | January 4, 2023

On Transforming Oral History Into Historical Fiction

On Transforming Oral History Into Historical Fiction

Aanchal Malhotra Tells the Story of Indian Partition

By Aanchal Malhotra | January 4, 2023

On Authenticity, Research, and Writing From the Diaspora

On Authenticity, Research, and Writing From the Diaspora

V.V. Ganeshananthan on Writing About Sri Lanka

By V.V. Ganeshananthan | January 4, 2023

Chris Belcher on Blurring the Lines Between Sex Work and Academia

Chris Belcher on Blurring the Lines Between Sex Work and Academia

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | January 4, 2023

“It Was Like Jumping from a Cliff.” Dorthe Nors on Taking Quantum Leaps and Buying a House

“It Was Like Jumping from a Cliff.” Dorthe Nors on Taking Quantum Leaps and Buying a House

In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | January 4, 2023

How Zora Neale Hurston’s Study of Hoodoo Helped Me Grieve

How Zora Neale Hurston’s Study of Hoodoo Helped Me Grieve

Tracey Rose Peyton on Making Peace With Her Father

By Tracey Rose Peyton | January 3, 2023

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Peter Orner on Looking for “Solace in Remembering” and His Pursuit of Chronology

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Getting Reinspired to Write... Again... For the New Year!

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Judith Thurman on Elena Ferrante and Writing That Rattles the Cage of Gender

Judith Thurman on Elena Ferrante and Writing That Rattles the Cage of Gender

"This body of work defies the conventions of writing 'like a woman' as radically as did Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein."

By Judith Thurman | December 23, 2022

The Forty Year Kiss: Nickolas Butler on Why People-Watching Is Writing

The Forty Year Kiss: Nickolas Butler on Why People-Watching Is Writing

“All novelists are spies or should be.”

By Nickolas Butler | December 23, 2022

Casting Symbolic Intimacy: How TV Can Help Us Get Better at Zoom

Casting Symbolic Intimacy: How TV Can Help Us Get Better at Zoom

Allison Wyss on The Magicians, The Brady Bunch, and Magical Connection

By Allison Wyss | December 23, 2022

The Legacy of ISIS: Dunya Mikhail on Yazidi Women Captives in Iraq

The Legacy of ISIS: Dunya Mikhail on Yazidi Women Captives in Iraq

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | December 22, 2022

Hervé Tullet Reflects on a Career of Creating Creatively Unconventional Children’s Literature

Hervé Tullet Reflects on a Career of Creating Creatively Unconventional Children’s Literature

"Like in a publicity stunt, the strength of the image gives all the explanation necessary."

By Hervé Tullet | December 21, 2022

Crow, Donkey, Poet: Sumana Roy on the Useless in the Poetic

Crow, Donkey, Poet: Sumana Roy on the Useless in the Poetic

“Through difference and repetition, the useless is smuggling in poetry and the poetic in language.”

By Sumana Roy | December 21, 2022

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