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Stacey D’Erasmo on the Fun of Writing Cryptic Characters

Stacey D’Erasmo on the Fun of Writing Cryptic Characters

“The world itself is an ambiguous, complicated place.”

By Stacey D'Erasmo | September 23, 2022

Not Just Lyrics and Melodies: How Producers Conceive of Music

Not Just Lyrics and Melodies: How Producers Conceive of Music

Susan Rogers and Ogi Ogas on the Intersections of Musical Form and Functionality

By Susan Rogers and Ogi Ogas | September 22, 2022

Yiyun Li on Complicated Friendships Real and Imagined

Yiyun Li on Complicated Friendships Real and Imagined

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | September 22, 2022

Why Jazz? Laura Warrell on Devotion to a “Dying” Art Form

Why Jazz? Laura Warrell on Devotion to a “Dying” Art Form

The Author of Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm Considers the Mysteries of Art and Love

By Laura Warrell | September 20, 2022

How the Trapper Keeper Shaped a Generation of Writers

How the Trapper Keeper Shaped a Generation of Writers

Jess deCourcy Hinds on the Most Popular School Supply of All Time

By Jess deCourcy Hinds | September 19, 2022

Break Everything and Begin Again: On Fragmentation as a Form

Break Everything and Begin Again: On Fragmentation as a Form

Sarah Haas Considers the Ways We Give Shape to Ideas

By Sarah Haas | September 19, 2022

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A.M. Homes on How to Write Characters that Stick with Your Readers

By Memoir Nation | September 19, 2022

Thomas C. Foster on the Seven Deadly Sins of Writing

By Thomas C. Foster | September 16, 2022

Ellen Meeropol on Writing Into the Gaps Left by Untold Family Stories

By Ellen Meeropol | September 16, 2022

When Your OCD Therapy is Also a Treatment for Writers’ Block

When Your OCD Therapy is Also a Treatment for Writers’ Block

Elissa Bassist on Learning to Lean in to the Fear of Writing Like an Idiot

By Elissa Bassist | September 16, 2022

On the Myth of the Made Writer and the Madness of Emerging

On the Myth of the Made Writer and the Madness of Emerging

Or: Encounters with Michael Ondaatje’s Dog

By Kailyn McCord | September 15, 2022

Rachel Aviv: Why It’s Difficult to Trust Your Own Experiences of Mental Illness

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In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

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On Meaning and Time: Andrea Barrett on What the Past Tells Us About Today

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

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Jonathan Franzen: What Happens If We No Longer Have Bookstore Readings?

Jonathan Franzen: What Happens If We No Longer Have Bookstore Readings?

This Week on The Writers Institute Podcast, From the Archives of the New York State Writers Institute

By The Writers Institute | September 14, 2022

How Dealing in Facts Helps Fiction Writers Hone Their Craft

How Dealing in Facts Helps Fiction Writers Hone Their Craft

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