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How to Write an Obituary For Your Mother

How to Write an Obituary For Your Mother

Jenny Qi on the Limits of Language in the Face of Tragedy

By Jenny Qi | October 26, 2021

Lauren Groff on Maintaining the “Electric Jolt” of an Idea While Writing

Lauren Groff on Maintaining the “Electric Jolt” of an Idea While Writing

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | October 25, 2021

The Pleasure(s) of Pen(s) on Paper

The Pleasure(s) of Pen(s) on Paper

Danielle Taschereau Mamers on the Intimate Act of Mark-Making

By Danielle Taschereau Mamers | October 25, 2021

Unlearning the Sunk Cost Fallacy, in Writing and in Love

Unlearning the Sunk Cost Fallacy, in Writing and in Love

Hazel Hayes on the Power of Walking Away

By Hazel Hayes | October 25, 2021

Notes on Queerness and Camp in Crime Fiction

Notes on Queerness and Camp in Crime Fiction

Tice Cin Examines the Coexistence of Adventure and the Domestic

By Tice Cin | October 25, 2021

Mary Gaitskill on Borrowing From Real Life in Writing (and the Dreams That Guided Her)

Mary Gaitskill on Borrowing From Real Life in Writing (and the Dreams That Guided Her)

How the Author of Veronica Tries to Honor the World

By Mary Gaitskill | October 22, 2021

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Finding My Voice Through the Rage of Punk Music

By Amy Lee Lillard | October 22, 2021

Craig Davidson on the Secrets Best Left Out of Memoir

By Craig Davidson | October 22, 2021

Nariman Youssef on Migration, Translation, and the Complexities of the “Mother Tongue”

By The Common | October 22, 2021

Jennifer Estep on Her Favorite Character of All Time to Write

Jennifer Estep on Her Favorite Character of All Time to Write

In Conversation with Gabrielle Mathieu on the New Books Network

By New Books Network | October 22, 2021

Julia Elliott and DaMaris B. Hill on Writing Rural America

Julia Elliott and DaMaris B. Hill on Writing Rural America

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | October 21, 2021

TaraShea Nesbit on Reckoning With Ghosts, and Returning to the Same Story, Again and Again

TaraShea Nesbit on Reckoning With Ghosts, and Returning to the Same Story, Again and Again

“There is a backward-looking thing in all good stories and essays: a haunting.”

By TaraShea Nesbit | October 21, 2021

Chris Hedges on Teaching Playwriting in Prison

Chris Hedges on Teaching Playwriting in Prison

Writing Exercises, Sincerity, and Amiri Baraka’s Dutchman

By Chris Hedges | October 21, 2021

This 1998 advice from Ursula K. Le Guin about gender-neutral language is still relevant.

This 1998 advice from Ursula K. Le Guin about gender-neutral language is still relevant.

By Vanessa Willoughby | October 20, 2021

<em>Reading Women</em> on the Emotional Complexities in Women’s Crime Fiction

Reading Women on the Emotional Complexities in Women’s Crime Fiction

This Week from the Reading Women Podcast

By Reading Women | October 20, 2021

Writing Through Trauma, Past and Present: On the Legacies of Catholic Ireland

Writing Through Trauma, Past and Present: On the Legacies of Catholic Ireland

Elaine Feeney Considers the Emotional Journey to Her Novel, As You Were

By Elaine Feeney | October 20, 2021

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