• Craft and Advice

    Excerpts

    Don’t Be a Dick: Colum McCann’s Advice to Young Writers

    By Colum McCann  April 3, 2017
    Personal Essay

    On the Philosophical Implications of Shelving Books

    By John Sherman  March 31, 2017
    Criticism

    What Does it Mean to Set Your Novel at Harvard?

    By Amelia Ayrelan Iuvino  March 31, 2017
    Deep Dive

    We Are All Detectives Now: When Literary Plots Get Mysterious

    By Tobias Carroll  March 30, 2017
    Audiobook

    The Unglamorous Ordeal of Recording Your Own Audiobook

    By John Freeman Gill  March 29, 2017
    History

    How to Write About a Massacre

    By Harriet Scott Chessman  March 28, 2017
    In Memoriam

    Life Advice From Adrienne Rich

    By Emily Temple  March 27, 2017
    Personal Essay

    Instead of Writing, I Watched Trains

    By Owen Laukkanen  March 24, 2017
    Events

    Reading Across America: How to Host a Literary Event

    By Jen Michalski  March 23, 2017
    Feature

    How Many Books Will You Read Before You Die?

    By Emily Temple  March 22, 2017
    Craft

    Putting the “I” in Biography

    By John Kaag  March 22, 2017
    In Memoriam

    Literary Voices on the Legendary Brilliance of Robert Silvers

    By Emily Temple  March 21, 2017
    Advice

    The Writing Wisdom of Derek Walcott

    By Emily Temple  March 20, 2017
    In Memoriam

    Derek Walcott: Poet of Twilight, Poet of the Caribbean

    By Gabrielle Bellot  March 20, 2017
    Deep Dive

    Clarice Lispector’s Children’s Story Taught Me to Read Her Like An Adult

    By Andréa Stella  March 17, 2017
    Excerpts

    Toni Morrison is More Hemingway Than Hemingway Himself

    By Ben Blatt  March 17, 2017
    Advice

    Ask the Publicists: What’s the Difference Between Marketing and Publicity?

    By Literary Hub  March 16, 2017
    Q and A

    Is Pedantry the Mother of the Essay?

    By Ken Chen  March 16, 2017
    Craft

    How I Learned to Create an Effective Sherlock Holmes Pastiche

    By Lyndsay Faye  March 13, 2017
    How to...

    Reading Across America: How to Create ‘Live Literary Journals’

    By Wendy C. Ortiz  March 13, 2017
    Craft

    On Persistence: The Lessons of a Middle-Aged Debut Novelist

    By Daniel Lowe  March 10, 2017
    Feature

    Notorious Literary Muses from Best to Worst

    By Emily Temple  March 9, 2017
    Excerpts

    Alice Neel: How to Persevere and Live the Artist’s Life

    By Bridget Quinn  March 8, 2017
    Dear aspiring writer

    How I Learned to Stop Worrying About the Market and Just Write

    By Peternelle van Arsdale  March 2, 2017
    Profile

    Gish Jen on the Profound Differences Between Chinese and American Culture

    By Dylan Foley  March 1, 2017
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