Pep Talks That I Give to Authors That I Will Now Give to Myself

Pep Talks That I Give to Authors That I Will Now Give to Myself

In Which Maris Kreizman Attempts to Take Her Own Advice

By Maris Kreizman | June 20, 2025

Kate McKean on the Nuts and Bolts of the Query Letter

Kate McKean on the Nuts and Bolts of the Query Letter

Or, How to Do a Lot in a Little Space

By Kate McKean | June 20, 2025

How Four Literary Icons Chose the Pen Names That Made Them Famous

How Four Literary Icons Chose the Pen Names That Made Them Famous

Kirsty McHugh and Ian Scott Explore the Reasoning Behind Some Very Well Known Pseudonyms

By Kirsty McHugh and Ian Scott | June 20, 2025

Less Matters More: Joanna Walsh on the Expansive Possibilities of the Short Story

Less Matters More: Joanna Walsh on the Expansive Possibilities of the Short Story

“The memory of these fragments is always created, as a matter of reconstruction. And creation is always hope.”

By Joanna Walsh | June 18, 2025

Sigrid Nunez on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s <em>The Great Gatsby</em>

Sigrid Nunez on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby

In Conversation with Michael Kelleher for the Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast

By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast | June 18, 2025

Nicholson Baker on the Unsung Pleasures of the World

Nicholson Baker on the Unsung Pleasures of the World

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on Thresholds

By Thresholds | June 18, 2025

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Leo Carey on What’s Not There

By The Critic and Her Publics | June 17, 2025

What Does It Mean To Be a Working Class Writer at Iowa Writers’ Workshop?

By Lee Cole | June 17, 2025

Visionary Ways of Caring: Five Books That Capture the Expansiveness of Queer Love

By Dylin Hardcastle | June 16, 2025

Interdisciplinary Magic: What the Humanities Can Reveal About Scientific Pursuits

Interdisciplinary Magic: What the Humanities Can Reveal About Scientific Pursuits

Robert P. Baird on His Transformative Academic and Literary Journey From Engineer to Writer

By Robert P. Baird | June 16, 2025

Against Homophobic Traditionalism: The Revelations of Writing Queer Historical Fiction

Against Homophobic Traditionalism: The Revelations of Writing Queer Historical Fiction

Phil Melanson Argues on Leonardo da Vinci, Bad Reviews, and Bucking History'’s Heteronormativity

By Phil Melanson | June 16, 2025

Power, Motherhood and Murder: On the Life and Death of Agrippina the Younger

Power, Motherhood and Murder: On the Life and Death of Agrippina the Younger

Diana Arterian Explores the All-Consuming Ancient Obsession Behind Her Latest Poetry Collection

By Diana Arterian | June 16, 2025

Ethan Rutherford on Making Something from Nothing

Ethan Rutherford on Making Something from Nothing

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | June 16, 2025

Sara Kehaulani Goo on Writing as Kuleana

Sara Kehaulani Goo on Writing as Kuleana

From the Memoir Nation Podcast, Hosted by Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner

By Memoir Nation | June 16, 2025

Becoming a Parent Changes <em>How</em> You Write... But Must It Change What You Write?

Becoming a Parent Changes How You Write... But Must It Change What You Write?

Danny Lorberbaum on Balancing Creativity and New Fatherhood

By Danny Lorberbaum | June 13, 2025

“The Finch Interested Me...” In Memory of Lewis H. Lapham and the Magazine He Founded

“The Finch Interested Me...” In Memory of Lewis H. Lapham and the Magazine He Founded

Donovan Hohn Remembers a Mentor

By Donovan Hohn | June 13, 2025

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