• Craft and Advice

    Conversations

    Interview With a Gatekeeper: Algonquin’s Elisabeth Scharlatt

    By Kerri Arsenault  October 13, 2016
    Essay

    Dispatches From a Writer’s Retreat on a Playground for the Super Rich

    By Ying-Ju Lai  October 13, 2016
    Essay

    On Historical Fiction, True Stories, and Not Recreating Reality

    By Craig Larsen  October 7, 2016
    Essay

    Can Fiction Still Make a Difference?

    By Rachel Hennessy  October 7, 2016
    Essay

    Junot Diaz: On My Way to the Novel, I Fell in Love with the Short Story

    By Junot Díaz  October 7, 2016
    Advice

    Nell Zink: How to Become a Novelist in Ten Easy Steps

    By Nell Zink  October 5, 2016
    Essay

    How My Grandfather Went From the Pulitzer Prize to Complete Obscurity

    By Tom Shroder  October 4, 2016
    How to...

    Where the Hell Do You Start With Something as Vast as a Memoir?

    By iO Tillett Wright  October 3, 2016
    Essay

    One Story, Two Tellers: When Someone Else Wrote the Same Book As Me

    By Lorraine Boissoneault  October 3, 2016
    Essay

    The Time I Wrote a 150,000-Word Pulp Novel in a Month to Win a Bet

    By Stanley Donwood  September 30, 2016
    Dear aspiring writer

    How J.M. Coetzee wrote His Booker Prize-Winning Book

    By David Attwell  September 29, 2016
    What to Read

    The Grumpy Librarian: If Your Living Room is Carpeted in Thorns…

    By Caitlin Goodman  September 27, 2016
    Poets

    Getting Paid for Poetry in the Digital Age

    By Deirdre Coyle  September 22, 2016
    How to...

    What Jane Austen Can Teach Us About Building Suspense

    By Rebecca Smith  September 21, 2016
    How to...

    Ask the Publicists: But What About My Book?

    By Literary Hub  September 20, 2016
    Essay

    Fear and Loathing in New England: Lev Grossman Looks Back at His First Novel

    By Lev Grossman  September 20, 2016
    Essay

    Writing Advice from Edward Albee

    By Neil Goldstein Glick  September 20, 2016
    Excerpts

    On the Irresistible Pull of Tidal Metaphors

    By Hugh Aldersey-Williams  September 20, 2016
    Advice

    Dear Rick Moody: Why Do Men Spinster-bait?

    By Rick Moody  September 16, 2016
    Op-Ed

    Alan Moore Goes (Very Very) Big with Jerusalem

    By Joshua Zajdman  September 14, 2016
    Excerpts

    Wrestling With Writer’s Block in the Middle of a Cranberry Bog

    By Rosamund Stone Zander  September 14, 2016
    Starting out

    Why I’m Starting a Publishing House in Romania

    By Elena Marcu  September 14, 2016
    Advice

    How to Be a Writer: 10 Tips from Rebecca Solnit

    By Rebecca Solnit  September 13, 2016
    Feature

    Teddy Wayne is Worried He Might Be a Fraud

    By Teddy Wayne  September 13, 2016
    Design

    Kate Beaton Applies Her Graphic Genius to the Tyranny of Babies

    By Noah Berlatsky  September 13, 2016
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