• Craft and Advice

    Bad Writing Advice

    20 Ways to Be a Great Literary Citizen, According to Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

    By Adam Ehrlich Sachs  May 23, 2019
    Protect Your Darlings

    Brandon Taylor: When to Protect Your Characters, and When to Punish Them

    By Brandon Taylor  May 22, 2019
    Writing Advice

    “Make Them Care About What You Think” and Other Writing Advice from Nora Ephron

    By Emily Temple  May 21, 2019
    Influences

    The Biggest Influence on My Novel Is… McDonald’s?

    By Ryan Chapman  May 21, 2019
    Criticism

    13 Common Mistakes in Book Reviewing and
    How to Avoid Them

    By Jay A. Fernandez  May 21, 2019
    On Race

    Ebony Thomas on Seeking the Fantastic When the World Tells You Not To

    By Ebony Elizabeth Thomas  May 21, 2019
    The Hub

    Quiz: Is this my first book tour or my own funeral?

    By Kimberly Harrington  May 17, 2019
    Writing Advice

    Some Writing Advice: Don’t Take Others’ Advice

    By Guy Gavriel Kay  May 15, 2019
    Family Stories

    When to Write It, When to Walk Away: On the Problem of Too Much Metaphor

    By Jessica Francis Kane  May 14, 2019
    Book Dedications

    Behind the Book Dedications: “A Private Moment in a Public Object”

    By Julia Carpenter  May 14, 2019
    WWII

    Uncovering the Secret History of a WWII-Era Brooklyn Spy

    By David A. Taylor  May 14, 2019
    The Writing Life

    5 Reasons a Writer Should Move to Jackson, Mississippi

    By Tom Head  May 13, 2019
    Mother's Day

    Tobias Wolff on the Iconic Memoir He Never
    Intended to Write

    By Tobias Wolff  May 10, 2019
    Motherhood

    The Stories Mothers Never Tell

    By Jill Talbot and Marcia Aldrich  May 10, 2019
    Author Photos

    Taking an Author’s Photo Is Like Going on a First Date

    By Nina Subin  May 6, 2019
    Writing Prompts

    The New Toolkit For Opening Up Your Memoir Writing

    By Eve Makis  May 6, 2019
    Fiction vs. Nonfiction

    On Not Writing About My Father, an Actual Mad Scientist

    By Erika Swyler  May 3, 2019
    Craft and Criticism

    Poetry, Like Witchcraft and Magick, is an Act of Transformation

    By Janaka Stucky  May 3, 2019
    Identity

    Finding Freedom in Writing a Language My
    Parents Can’t Read

    By Kia Abdullah  May 1, 2019
    Flânerie

    On the Struggle to Become a True
    Parisian Flaneur

    By Aysegül Savas  April 30, 2019
    Craft

    David Means on the World As
    Endless Inspiration

    By David Means  April 29, 2019
    Advice

    How to Write a Book in Ten Days

    By Meg Elison  April 26, 2019
    How to...

    On the Importance of Getting the Science Right in Your Novel

    By Andrea Rothman  April 26, 2019
    Craft and Criticism

    On Editing Oliver Sacks After
    He Was Gone

    By Bill Hayes  April 23, 2019
    Writing

    The Failures of a Wunderkind:
    On Rejection and Persistence

    By Michael Croley  April 23, 2019
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