• Craft and Advice

    Advice

    James Salter: Why I Write

    By James Salter  November 29, 2017
    Advice

    5 Reasons Why a Writer Should Move to Tacoma

    By Renee Simms  November 29, 2017
    Essay

    The Dangerous Lure of Writing For White Readers in an MFA

    By Aisha Sabatini Sloan  November 28, 2017
    Feature

    How 11 Writers Organize Their Personal Libraries

    By Emily Temple  November 21, 2017
    Feature

    Adrian McKinty Tries to Get Some Writing Done in Kafka’s Old Office

    By Adrian McKinty  November 21, 2017
    Design

    See the Detailed Diagrams Kathy Acker Drew of Her Dreams

    By Literary Hub  November 20, 2017
    Feature

    Garth Risk Hallberg on Updating His Debut Novella—10 Years Later

    By Garth Risk Hallberg  November 17, 2017
    Feature

    Charles Bukowski Wrote So Fast His Publisher Couldn’t Keep Up

    By Abel Debritto  November 17, 2017
    Advice

    Susan Sontag on Being a Writer: “You Have to Be Obsessed”

    By Emily Temple  November 15, 2017
    Feature

    Counting Feet: On Running and Poetic Meter

    By Chris Townsend  November 15, 2017
    Essay

    Eduardo Galeano: Why I Became a Writer

    By Eduardo Galeano  November 9, 2017
    Advice

    Kazuo Ishiguro: ‘Write What You Know’ is the Stupidest Thing I’ve Ever Heard

    By Emily Temple  November 8, 2017
    Essay

    Writing a Novel in the Age of Peak Content

    By Barret Baumgart  November 6, 2017
    Feature

    No One Cares About Your Dreams—Unless You’re a Famous Writer

    By Emily Temple  November 1, 2017
    Advice

    I Talked to 150 Writers and Here’s the Best Advice They Had

    By Joe Fassler  October 26, 2017
    Did you know?

    6 Famous Writers Injured While Writing

    By Emily Temple  October 25, 2017
    Feature

    How to Spend a Literary Long Weekend in Boston

    By Oset Babur  October 25, 2017
    Essay

    Learning the Hard Way That Writing a Book is Not Like Writing for TV

    By Evany Rosen  October 25, 2017
    Essay

    At Oslo’s House of Literature, a Free Space for Ideas (and Writers)

    By Kerri Arsenault  October 20, 2017
    Essay

    Jennifer Egan Makes Friends Across Seven Decades (and Countless Letters)

    By Jennifer Egan  October 19, 2017
    Essay

    Black Francis: Ray Bradbury Validated My Desire to Write

    By Black Francis  October 19, 2017
    Essay

    A Stroke Made My Mother a Poet, I Merely Transcribed

    By Marius Chivu  October 19, 2017
    Excerpts

    Breaking Good: Why Artists Remake, Experiment, and Smash Tradition

    By Anthony Brandt and David Eagleman  October 19, 2017
    Essay

    The Bluebeard Myth is Forever Relevant

    By Catherine Burns  October 19, 2017
    Essay

    In Writing, We Get to Be Bolder, Riskier, and More Foolish

    By Panio Gianopoulos  October 18, 2017
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