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WATCH: Rebecca Mead and Jia Tolentino on Identity, Nationality, and Inheritance

WATCH: Rebecca Mead and Jia Tolentino on Identity, Nationality, and Inheritance

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By The Virtual Book Channel | March 10, 2022

What Makes a Great Opening Line?

What Makes a Great Opening Line?

Allegra Hyde Considers Love at First Sentence

By Allegra Hyde | March 9, 2022

How Trees Helped Ben Okri To Write His New Children’s Book

How Trees Helped Ben Okri To Write His New Children’s Book

“As the story grew, I felt the need for nature.”

By Ben Okri | March 9, 2022

Stop, Collaborate, and Listen: Amanda Pellegrino on Writing for TV Versus Writing a Novel

Stop, Collaborate, and Listen: Amanda Pellegrino on Writing for TV Versus Writing a Novel

"Writing a TV show is a team sport from day one."

By Amanda Pellegrino | March 8, 2022

Imagining the Many Futures—and Complex Humanity—of the Archetypal Missing Girl

Imagining the Many Futures—and Complex Humanity—of the Archetypal Missing Girl

Erin Kate Ryan on the Real Person Behind the Missingness

By Erin Kate Ryan | March 8, 2022

Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

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“Dare to Love Anyway, Even if We Are Also Deeply Fucked.” A Conversation with Sara Lippmann

By I'm a Writer But | March 8, 2022

Lee Kravetz on Sylvia Plath, 1950s Psychiatry, and Confessional Poets

By Jane Ciabattari | March 8, 2022

Debbie Millman Discusses Her Book Why Design Matters

By Storybound | March 8, 2022

It’s an Honor Just to Be Asian: Sandra Oh on Systemic Racism in Hollywood

It’s an Honor Just to Be Asian: Sandra Oh on Systemic Racism in Hollywood

“For the first time, I’m finally getting film roles where my character’s name is Korean.”

By Jeff Yang, Phil Yu, and Philip Wang | March 7, 2022

On Coming to Ursula K. Le Guin in My Own Time

On Coming to Ursula K. Le Guin in My Own Time

How Amal El-Mohtar Fell Completely in Love

By Amal El-Mohtar | March 7, 2022

Don’t Overthink It: The Argument For Just Starting to Write

Don’t Overthink It: The Argument For Just Starting to Write

Matt Bell Suggests You Focus on Whatever Gets You Through

By Matt Bell | March 7, 2022

The Beauty of Impermanence: Finding Inspiration in Renoir’s Fugitive Pigments

The Beauty of Impermanence: Finding Inspiration in Renoir’s Fugitive Pigments

Jennifer Murphy on Choosing a Vibrant Life

By Jennifer Murphy | March 7, 2022

Thrity Umrigar on Questioning the Rules of Objective Journalism

Thrity Umrigar on Questioning the Rules of Objective Journalism

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | March 7, 2022

Having Trouble With Novel Structure? Look at It Like a Mixtape

Having Trouble With Novel Structure? Look at It Like a Mixtape

Mesha Maren on Finding the Flow of a Book

By Mesha Maren | March 4, 2022

Instructions for Dating a Fellow Writer

Instructions for Dating a Fellow Writer

Renée Branum Lays Out a Few Universal Ground Rules

By Renée Branum | March 3, 2022

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