Jenn Shapland on Confronting Her Own Sexuality to Tell Carson McCullers’ Story

Jenn Shapland on Confronting Her Own Sexuality to Tell Carson McCullers’ Story

This Week from the Big Table Podcast

By Big Table | May 24, 2021

Anna North on Finding a Narrative Space Between Dystopia and Utopia

Anna North on Finding a Narrative Space Between Dystopia and Utopia

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | May 24, 2021

To Be a Person: Barrett Swanson and Jordan Kisner in Conversation

To Be a Person: Barrett Swanson and Jordan Kisner in Conversation

The Lost in Summerland Author and Thin Places Author Consider the Myriad Methods of Narrative Structure

By Jordan Kisner | May 21, 2021

When a Year in the Life of Your Last-Chance Debut Novel Coincides with a Global Pandemic

When a Year in the Life of Your Last-Chance Debut Novel Coincides with a Global Pandemic

Claire Cox Remembers How the Life Before Became Life As It Is Now

By Claire Cox | May 21, 2021

How Writing a Novel Is Like Decrypting a Cipher

How Writing a Novel Is Like Decrypting a Cipher

Rafe Posey on Breaking Open the Kernel of an Idea

By Rafe Posey | May 21, 2021

John McPhee on Wrestling with a First Draft

John McPhee on Wrestling with a First Draft

"The first is the phase of the pit and the pendulum."

By John McPhee | May 21, 2021

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Interview with a Journal: Apogee

By Vanessa Willoughby | May 21, 2021

A Witness to the Human Experience: Why Medicine Needs Storytellers

By David Weill, MD | May 20, 2021

Mary Wollstonecraft is a Double Taurus, Or: How an Astrologer Helped Unstick My Novel

By Samantha Silva | May 20, 2021

Elizabeth McCracken on Placing Her Characters in New Settings

Elizabeth McCracken on Placing Her Characters in New Settings

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | May 20, 2021

Laurie Frankel on the Way That Girls Superhero

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This Week on the Book Dreams Podcast

By Book Dreams | May 20, 2021

C Pam Zhang on the Psychic Idea of Home

C Pam Zhang on the Psychic Idea of Home

This Week from the Thresholds Podcast with Jordan Kisner

By Thresholds | May 19, 2021

Jim Shepard: When Your Novel Veers a Little Too Close to Grim Reality

Jim Shepard: When Your Novel Veers a Little Too Close to Grim Reality

An Armchair Catastrophist Predicts a Pandemic

By Jim Shepard | May 19, 2021

“I Wanted to Be on Fire.” On the Connection Between Art and Self-Destruction

“I Wanted to Be on Fire.” On the Connection Between Art and Self-Destruction

Bridget Collins Considers the Hagiography of the Tortured Artist

By Bridget Collins | May 19, 2021

Courtney Zoffness on the One Characteristic That Writers Share

Courtney Zoffness on the One Characteristic That Writers Share

In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | May 19, 2021

Would you let a random group of strangers on the Internet plot your next novel?

Would you let a random group of strangers on the Internet plot your next novel?

By Jonny Diamond | May 18, 2021

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