• Craft and Advice

    Archives

    Carson McCullers on Suicide, Psychiatry and the Mind of the Artist

    By Emily Temple  September 29, 2017
    Advice

    When I’m Writing Fiction, I Cannot Read It

    By Anne Korkeakivi  September 28, 2017
    Advice

    5 Reasons Why a Writer Should Move to Toronto

    By Deidre Olsen  September 28, 2017
    Op-Ed

    What We Can Learn from “Ordinary” Nazis

    By Jessica Shattuck  September 27, 2017
    History

    Returning Antoine de Saint-Exupéry to the Skies

    By Douglas R. Dechow and Anna Leahy  September 26, 2017
    Advice

    20 Pieces of Writing Advice from William Faulkner

    By Emily Temple  September 25, 2017
    Essay

    What Quilting and Embroidery Can Teach us About Narrative Form

    By Sarah Minor  September 22, 2017
    Happy Birthday

    12 Literary Writers on Stephen King’s Influence

    By Emily Temple  September 21, 2017
    Personal Essay

    How A Single Rosh Hashanah Dinner Sparked 10 Years of Research

    By Devin Murphy  September 21, 2017
    Deep Dive

    Imagining the Future of Nigeria: Accessing Africa Through Sci-Fi

    By Deji Bryce Olukotun  September 18, 2017
    Essay

    Writing My Trauma With a Little Help From a Jason Bourne Car Chase

    By Winnie M. Li  September 18, 2017
    Personal Essay

    Evil Enters From the Left: On Pantomime and the Classic Stage

    By Elly Griffiths  September 18, 2017
    Advice

    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on How to Write and How to Read

    By Emily Temple  September 15, 2017
    The Art of Editing

    7 Writers Who Were Also Editors (And the Books They Edited)

    By Emily Temple  September 14, 2017
    Archives

    When Roald Dahl’s Editor Decided He Was Too Much of a Prick To Publish

    By Emily Temple  September 13, 2017
    Poets

    Kaveh Akbar: How I Found Poetry in Childhood Prayer

    By Kaveh Akbar  September 12, 2017
    Deep Dive

    The Ways in Which a Novel Can Fail Like a Marriage

    By Josh Weil  September 12, 2017
    What to Read

    The Classes 25 Famous Writers Teach

    By Emily Temple  September 12, 2017
    Memoir

    Can the New York Times’ Modern Love Column Change a Writer’s Life?

    By Andrea Jarrell  September 8, 2017
    Art

    The Magic and Risk of a Handwritten Letter

    By Meghan Forbes  September 7, 2017
    Advice

    How Academics Survive the Writing Grind: Some Anecdotal Advice

    By Helen Sword  September 7, 2017
    Personal Essay

    One Decade, Two Writers, Many Actors, and Finally My Book Became a Movie

    By Mark Haskell Smith  September 7, 2017
    Advice

    N.K. Jemisin on Craft, Advocacy, and Ignoring the Naysayers

    By Emily Temple  September 1, 2017
    Technology

    Where Are the Likes? Coming to Terms with Being a Writer on Social Media

    By Nick Ripatrazone  August 31, 2017
    Advice

    Dear Rick Moody: What Should I Say About My Scars?

    By Rick Moody  August 31, 2017
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