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

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

Tahmima Anam on the Serious Business of Being Funny

By Tahmima Anam | July 13, 2021

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

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

Joyce Maynard on Finding Compassion Through the Distance of Fiction

By Joyce Maynard | July 12, 2021

Steven Pressfield on the Artist<br> as Warrior

Steven Pressfield on the Artist
as Warrior

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | July 12, 2021

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

Rebecca Mead on Finding Ways to Keep Reporting Through Lockdown

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

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Dana Spiotta on the Inevitable Reckonings of Generation X

By The Maris Review | July 8, 2021

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

By Rachel Donohue | July 8, 2021

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

By Emily Austin | July 8, 2021

Jason Mott wants you to reconsider the

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

By Vanessa Willoughby | July 7, 2021

Deus Ex Machina with a Credit Card: On the Pleasures of Writing Supremely Rich Characters

Deus Ex Machina with a Credit Card: On the Pleasures of Writing Supremely Rich Characters

Mikaella Clements and Onjuli Datta Consider Our Literary Fixation on the Very Wealthy

By Mikaella Clements and Onjuli Datta | July 7, 2021

Kristen Radtke: “Putting Anything into the World Is Totally Humiliating”

Kristen Radtke: “Putting Anything into the World Is Totally Humiliating”

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on the Thresholds Podcast

By Thresholds | July 7, 2021

How Many “Types” of Stories Are There? And Can They Save Us?

How Many “Types” of Stories Are There? And Can They Save Us?

David Chrisinger on Trying to Tell the Story of His Family

By David Chrisinger | July 7, 2021

Surviving Tough Love: Growing Up as the Child of Chinese Immigrants

Surviving Tough Love: Growing Up as the Child of Chinese Immigrants

Elina Zhang on the Lessons of Arundhati Roy’s God of Small Things

By Elina Zhang | July 7, 2021

Greg Gerke:

Greg Gerke: "We Want More Attention, We Don’t Want to Make Great Art"

In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | July 7, 2021

Omar El Akkad Reads From <em>American War</em> and <em>What Strange Paradise</em>

Omar El Akkad Reads From American War and What Strange Paradise

On Storybound, Our Radio-Theater Podcast

By Storybound | July 6, 2021

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