• Craft and Advice

    MFA Life

    When Writing Becomes Just Another Lifestyle Good

    By Mary Wang  January 11, 2017
    Excerpts

    How Art Can Defeat Boredom and Loneliness

    By Eva Hoffman  January 11, 2017
    Personal Essay

    On Selling Your First Novel After 11 Years

    By Min Jin Lee  January 10, 2017
    Advice

    12 Contemporary Writers on How They Revise

    By Emily Temple  January 10, 2017
    Personal Essay

    How Faulkner Convinced Me Not to Become an Astronomer

    By Alan Jacobs  January 10, 2017
    Personal Essay

    How to Build a Powerful Community of Brown Female Voices

    By Piyali Bhattacharya  January 5, 2017
    Film

    Why Every Aspiring Writer Should Go See Paterson

    By Emily Temple  January 5, 2017
    Feature

    Letters from an Invented Writer

    By Literary Hub  January 3, 2017
    Personal Essay

    What Romance Fiction Can Accomplish

    By Cathy Maxwell  December 29, 2016
    Personal Essay

    Working Your Way Through Depression to Finish a Book

    By Jason Diamond  December 22, 2016
    Profile

    The Last Bookbinder on the Lower East Side

    By Dwyer Murphy  December 21, 2016
    Advice

    The Art of Revision: Most of What You Write Should Be Cut

    By Charles Johnson  December 20, 2016
    Feature

    Human Hair, Dolls Clothes, Love Letters and Other Strange Things Found in Old Books

    By Emily Temple  December 16, 2016
    Advice

    Ask the Publicists: An Author’s Survival Kit for Dark Times

    By Literary Hub  December 13, 2016
    Criticism

    On Failing to Write for the Internet

    By Laurie Sheck  December 13, 2016
    Craft

    How Writers Are Getting Back to Work

    By Lorraine Berry  December 13, 2016
    Personal Essay

    Reading Through the First Year of Motherhood

    By Yardenne Greenspan  December 9, 2016
    Politics

    Art Can Transfigure Hatred

    By Charlotte Wood  December 9, 2016
    Feature

    An Incomplete Guide to Proper Literary Name-Dropping

    By Emily Temple  December 9, 2016
    Film

    Turning a Book Into a Movie is Like Making Booze

    By Terry George  December 8, 2016
    Craft

    What a Novel Looks Like Before It’s a Novel

    By Claire Luchette  December 7, 2016
    Poets

    How Do We Pay the Poets?

    By Amanda Nadelberg  December 7, 2016
    Poets

    Poetry and Poets in a Time of Crisis

    By Matthew Zapruder  December 6, 2016
    Conversations

    Writing the Body: Trauma, Illness, Sexuality, and Beyond

    By Literary Hub  December 6, 2016
    Feature

    For Writers Who Are Also the Mothers of Small Children

    By Marcy Dermansky  December 5, 2016
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