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How Do You Write About People Who Don’t Want To Be Written About?

How Do You Write About People Who Don’t Want To Be Written About?

Ethan Lou on Unauthorized Biographies and Uncomfortable Writing

By Ethan Lou | October 18, 2021

Richard Powers on the Duplicity of Bewilderment

Richard Powers on the Duplicity of Bewilderment

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | October 18, 2021

Read Ezra Pound's extensive revisions to T. S. Eliot's <em>The Waste Land</em>.

Read Ezra Pound's extensive revisions to T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land.

By Vanessa Willoughby | October 15, 2021

Jonathan Franzen on Reckoning with the Limits and Purposes of Writing Novels

Jonathan Franzen on Reckoning with the Limits and Purposes of Writing Novels

This Week on the Radio Open Source Podcast

By Open Source | October 15, 2021

Marguerite Duras on Finding Stories Everywhere

Marguerite Duras on Finding Stories Everywhere

“Around us, everything is writing.”

By Marguerite Duras | October 15, 2021

Alfred Molina on His Genre- and Character-Spanning Career

Alfred Molina on His Genre- and Character-Spanning Career

In Conversation with Josephine Reed for AudioFile Magazine

By Behind the Mic | October 15, 2021

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Mondiant Dogon on Writing as an Important and Difficult Healing Process

By Jenna Krajeski | October 15, 2021

Steph Cha on Choosing the Best of Mystery and Suspense During an Unprecedented and Harrowing Year

By Steph Cha | October 14, 2021

WATCH: Azareen Van Der Vliet Oloomi and Eileen Myles on Writing Against Linearity

By The Virtual Book Channel | October 14, 2021

Susan Orlean: “In the End, What Matters is Noticing.”

Susan Orlean: “In the End, What Matters is Noticing.”

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | October 14, 2021

Robbie Bach on the Concept of “Venture Terrorism”

Robbie Bach on the Concept of “Venture Terrorism”

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | October 14, 2021

It Begins with Silence: Victoria Chang on Her Writing Process

It Begins with Silence: Victoria Chang on Her Writing Process

“Why are you circling around and around, afraid to go into the center?”

By Victoria Chang | October 13, 2021

Alexis Daria on Exploring Boundaries and Family Dynamics in Her New Book

Alexis Daria on Exploring Boundaries and Family Dynamics in Her New Book

This Week from the Reading Women Podcast

By Reading Women | October 13, 2021

How Rita Dove Cultivates Her “Island of the Mind”

How Rita Dove Cultivates Her “Island of the Mind”

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on the Thresholds Podcast

By Thresholds | October 13, 2021

Susan Orlean: “Is It Possible to Be Truly Wild?”

Susan Orlean: “Is It Possible to Be Truly Wild?”

The Author of On Animals in Conversation with Ann Leary

By Ann Leary | October 12, 2021

A Revolution in Creativity: On Slow Writing

A Revolution in Creativity: On Slow Writing

Melissa Matthewson Takes Some Life Lessons From Snails and Lichen

By Melissa Matthewson | October 12, 2021

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