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Plot Is Just Music You Sing In Your Mind: How Popular Rock Songs Can Help Shape Your Novel

Plot Is Just Music You Sing In Your Mind: How Popular Rock Songs Can Help Shape Your Novel

Katie Crouch on Structure, Character Development, and the Band CAKE

By Katie Crouch | July 14, 2021

Kaveh Akbar on Getting Sober and the Supernatural Language of Writing

Kaveh Akbar on Getting Sober and the Supernatural Language of Writing

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on the Thresholds Podcast

By Thresholds | July 14, 2021

Voyage Into Genre with T. L. Huchu, P. Djèlí Clark, and Kamau Ware

Voyage Into Genre with T. L. Huchu, P. Djèlí Clark, and Kamau Ware

Introducing Our New Podcast with Tor Books

By Tor Presents: Voyage into Genre | July 14, 2021

Matt Bell on Solving Crises Through Speculative Fiction (and Having Fun Doing It)

Matt Bell on Solving Crises Through Speculative Fiction (and Having Fun Doing It)

In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | July 14, 2021

Dana Spiotta on Turning to James Joyce for Inspiration and the Power of Cultural Reckonings

Dana Spiotta on Turning to James Joyce for Inspiration and the Power of Cultural Reckonings

The Author of Wayward in Conversation with Jane Ciabattari

By Jane Ciabattari | July 13, 2021

Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

Featuring Anuk Arudpragasam, Elizabeth Gonzalez James, Elizabeth Greenwood, and More

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To Write a Comic Novel, I Had to Shed the Weight of Expectation (and Adopt a New Name)

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What Writing the Story of a Divorce Taught Me About My Own

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as Warrior

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Richard Flanagan on Writing (and Rewriting) Through the Devastating Bushfires in Tasmania and Australia

Richard Flanagan on Writing (and Rewriting) Through the Devastating Bushfires in Tasmania and Australia

In Conversation with Mitchell Kaplan on The Literary Life Podcast

By The Literary Life | July 9, 2021

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Rebecca Mead on Finding Ways to Keep Reporting Through Lockdown

In Conversation with Paul Holdengräber on The Quarantine Tapes

By The Quarantine Tapes | July 9, 2021

Anne Lamott on Writing Compelling Dialogue

Anne Lamott on Writing Compelling Dialogue

"Good dialogue encompasses both what is said and what is not said."

By Anne Lamott | July 9, 2021

Dana Spiotta on the Inevitable Reckonings of Generation X

Dana Spiotta on the Inevitable Reckonings of Generation X

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By The Maris Review | July 8, 2021

What Do You Do When a Short Story Wants to Be a Novel?

What Do You Do When a Short Story Wants to Be a Novel?

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By Rachel Donohue | July 8, 2021

What the Dead Leave Behind: On the Way a Life Can Inhabit a House

What the Dead Leave Behind: On the Way a Life Can Inhabit a House

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Jason Mott wants you to reconsider the

Jason Mott wants you to reconsider the "beautiful time capsule" of film noir.

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