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On the Pact That Helped Me Finally Finish My Book... After Four Decades

On the Pact That Helped Me Finally Finish My Book... After Four Decades

How Margaret Hermes Made a Promise to Her Neighbor That Finally Came to Pass

By Margaret Hermes | March 19, 2021

Jen Spyra on Balancing the Zany with the Emotional

Jen Spyra on Balancing the Zany with the Emotional

In Conversation with Mitchell Kaplan on The Literary Life Podcast

By The Literary Life | March 19, 2021

Lauren Willig on Recounting the Everyday Heroism of WWI War Relief

Lauren Willig on Recounting the Everyday Heroism of WWI War Relief

In Conversation with C.P. Lesley on the New Books Network Podcast

By New Books Network | March 19, 2021

Elon Green on Centering Victims Rather than Killers

Elon Green on Centering Victims Rather than Killers

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | March 18, 2021

Sixty Years of Tracking Publications... and Rejections

Sixty Years of Tracking Publications... and Rejections

Jay Neugeboren on Coming to Terms With What Matters in a Life of Writing

By Jay Neugeboren | March 18, 2021

Imagining Isolation: When the Plots of Your Fiction Spill Into the Real World

Imagining Isolation: When the Plots of Your Fiction Spill Into the Real World

Paul Lynch on Life and Literature in COVID Lockdown

By Paul Lynch | March 18, 2021

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Finding Home: On the Journey Back to Writing as a Single Mother

By Kelly McMasters | March 17, 2021

Tell Don’t Show? What Brain Imaging Reveals About Readers

By Lisa Cron | March 17, 2021

Esmé Weijun Wang on the Physical and Visceral Act of Writing

By Thresholds | March 17, 2021

Talia Hibbert on Inviting Disabled, Chronically Ill, and Neurodivergent Characters into Rom-Coms

Talia Hibbert on Inviting Disabled, Chronically Ill, and Neurodivergent Characters into Rom-Coms

This Week on the Reading Women Podcast

By Reading Women | March 17, 2021

Imbolo Mbue on the Post-Colonial Greed of the<br> Oil Industry

Imbolo Mbue on the Post-Colonial Greed of the
Oil Industry

The Author of How Beautiful We Were Talks to Jane Ciabattari

By Jane Ciabattari | March 16, 2021

How One of My Favorite Songwriters Came Along and Saved My Novel

How One of My Favorite Songwriters Came Along and Saved My Novel

When Don Lee Sent a Longshot Email to Will Johnson

By Don Lee | March 15, 2021

Writing the What-If: The Aftermath of a Daughter’s Grief

Writing the What-If: The Aftermath of a Daughter’s Grief

Rebecca Handler on Exploring Alternate Narrative Paths

By Rebecca Handler | March 11, 2021

Naima Coster on Following Narrative Threads Rather Than Chronology

Naima Coster on Following Narrative Threads Rather Than Chronology

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | March 11, 2021

Finding Creativity in the Wintertime Rhythms of a Bordeaux Vineyard

Finding Creativity in the Wintertime Rhythms of a Bordeaux Vineyard

Mari Andrew on a Restorative Trip to France

By Mari Andrew | March 11, 2021

The Fires of Digression: Gregory Brown on the Slow Burn of Writing Fiction

The Fires of Digression: Gregory Brown on the Slow Burn of Writing Fiction

"It’s okay to wander. It’s okay to be lost. It’s okay to go slow."

By Gregory Brown | March 11, 2021

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