Who Has the Right to Be a Writer?

Who Has the Right to Be a Writer?

Stewart Sinclair on What It Means (and Takes) to Have a Career in Writing

By Stewart Sinclair | December 12, 2019

The Light As She Saw It: On Sitting in Emily Dickinson's Bedroom

The Light As She Saw It: On Sitting in Emily Dickinson's Bedroom

Poetic Power of Place ">Biographer Julie Dobrow on "Footstepping" and the
Poetic Power of Place

By Julie Dobrow | December 11, 2019

From the Diaries of Helen Garner: The Trials of <br>Daily Life, c. 1979

From the Diaries of Helen Garner: The Trials of
Daily Life, c. 1979

“Memo: do not drink coffee. It engenders baseless optimism about
my powers of creation.”

By Freeman's | December 9, 2019

Bohumil Hrabal, the Writing Machine Who Couldn't Stop

Bohumil Hrabal, the Writing Machine Who Couldn't Stop

The Czech Writer Remembers What It Was to
Fall in Love with Literature

By Bohumil Hrabal | December 6, 2019

How Journalism Made a <br>Poet Out of Me

How Journalism Made a
Poet Out of Me

Gillian Conoley on Objectivity, Reportage, and Truth

By Gillian Conoley | December 6, 2019

Creating Literary Community for Writers Raising Children

Creating Literary Community for Writers Raising Children

Pen Parentis Turns Ten!

By Matt Grant | December 6, 2019

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Charles Wright's Resistance Against Certainty

By Mary Szybist | December 5, 2019

Ann and Jeff VanderMeer Talk Classic Fantasy, Fearsome Ducks, and Dead Astronauts

By Fiction Non Fiction | December 5, 2019

Reading the Unpublished Novel My Mother Took
30 Years to Write

By Caroline Scott | December 5, 2019

The Impostor Poets of Iceland Issue a Manifesto

The Impostor Poets of Iceland Issue a Manifesto

"Critics still don’t entirely know what to do with us."

By Literary Hub | December 4, 2019

What Your Draft (and Its Problems) Says About You

What Your Draft (and Its Problems) Says About You

Helen Betya Rubinstein on Finding Clarity in Confusion

By Helen Betya Rubinstein | December 4, 2019

The Truest Eye: Wisdom and Vision from Toni Morrison

The Truest Eye: Wisdom and Vision from Toni Morrison

Selected Quotations from an American Icon

By Toni Morrison | December 3, 2019

What Was the First Book You Fell in Love With?

What Was the First Book You Fell in Love With?

The Center for Fiction’s 2019 First Novel Prize Authors Weigh In

By Literary Hub | December 2, 2019

Lore Segal: A (Complicated) Love Letter to Editors

Lore Segal: A (Complicated) Love Letter to Editors

On Syntax, Rewrites, Second-Guesses, and Grace

By Lore Segal | December 2, 2019

Larry Brown's Long and Tortured Struggle to Make Himself Into a Writer

Larry Brown's Long and Tortured Struggle to Make Himself Into a Writer

Jonathan Miles Remembers His Friend

By Jonathan Miles | December 2, 2019

How to Throw a Shower for a Novel

How to Throw a Shower for a Novel

Caroline Louise Walker on Celebrating a Very Important New Arrival

By Caroline Louise Walker | November 27, 2019

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