• Craft and Advice

    Essay

    Eduardo Galeano: Why I Became a Writer

    By Eduardo Galeano  November 9, 2017
    Advice

    Kazuo Ishiguro: ‘Write What You Know’ is the Stupidest Thing I’ve Ever Heard

    By Emily Temple  November 8, 2017
    Essay

    Writing a Novel in the Age of Peak Content

    By Barret Baumgart  November 6, 2017
    Feature

    No One Cares About Your Dreams—Unless You’re a Famous Writer

    By Emily Temple  November 1, 2017
    Advice

    I Talked to 150 Writers and Here’s the Best Advice They Had

    By Joe Fassler  October 26, 2017
    Did you know?

    6 Famous Writers Injured While Writing

    By Emily Temple  October 25, 2017
    Feature

    How to Spend a Literary Long Weekend in Boston

    By Oset Babur  October 25, 2017
    Essay

    Learning the Hard Way That Writing a Book is Not Like Writing for TV

    By Evany Rosen  October 25, 2017
    Essay

    At Oslo’s House of Literature, a Free Space for Ideas (and Writers)

    By Kerri Arsenault  October 20, 2017
    Essay

    Jennifer Egan Makes Friends Across Seven Decades (and Countless Letters)

    By Jennifer Egan  October 19, 2017
    Essay

    Black Francis: Ray Bradbury Validated My Desire to Write

    By Black Francis  October 19, 2017
    Essay

    A Stroke Made My Mother a Poet, I Merely Transcribed

    By Marius Chivu  October 19, 2017
    Excerpts

    Breaking Good: Why Artists Remake, Experiment, and Smash Tradition

    By Anthony Brandt and David Eagleman  October 19, 2017
    Essay

    The Bluebeard Myth is Forever Relevant

    By Catherine Burns  October 19, 2017
    Essay

    In Writing, We Get to Be Bolder, Riskier, and More Foolish

    By Panio Gianopoulos  October 18, 2017
    Writer Diary

    A Day in the Life of a Freelancer

    By Lorraine Berry  October 18, 2017
    Essay

    America, Land of the Refugee

    By Betsy Carter  October 16, 2017
    Art

    Art Inspired by Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities

    By Emily Temple  October 13, 2017
    Expert opinion

    A Selection of Virginia Woolf’s Most Savage Insults

    By Emily Temple  October 12, 2017
    Essay

    How Paris Turned Me Into a Writer

    By Piu Eatwell  October 12, 2017
    Writer Diary

    Katherine Mansfield on the Thrilling Joy of Creation

    By Emily Temple  October 11, 2017
    Did you know?

    137 Writers and the Words They’re Best Known For

    By Kaveh Akbar  October 11, 2017
    Advice

    Watch Karl Ove Knausgaard’s Lecture: Why I Write

    By Literary Hub  October 5, 2017
    Deep Dive

    Why Does Literature Have So Little to Say About Illness?

    By Meghan O'Rourke  October 5, 2017
    Deep Dive

    The Pure Pleasure of Reading Lolita‘s First 100 Pages

    By Hanya Yanagihara  October 4, 2017
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