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How Writing a Short Story Collection is Like Starting a Zoo

How Writing a Short Story Collection is Like Starting a Zoo

Valerie Trueblood on Grabbing a Story By the Neck

By Valerie Trueblood | August 6, 2018

"Write a Sentence as Clean as a Bone" And Other Advice from James Baldwin

You Can Never Go Wrong Listening to This Guy

By Emily Temple | August 2, 2018

When Writing is Your Job, Researching Trauma Can Be a Workplace Hazard

When Writing is Your Job, Researching Trauma Can Be a Workplace Hazard

Finding Time For Violence Throughout Your Work Day

By Jennifer Down | August 2, 2018

Sigrid Rausing: Write When You Can, and Don't Worry About an Audience

Sigrid Rausing: Write When You Can, and Don't Worry About an Audience

The Author of Mayhem on Anne Carson, Jane Austen,
and Estonian Farm Collectives

By Literary Hub | July 30, 2018

There is Such a Thing as Talent: Elizabeth Hardwick on Writing

There is Such a Thing as Talent: Elizabeth Hardwick on Writing

The Brilliant Novelist and Essayist Tells it Like it Is

By Emily Temple | July 27, 2018

13 Literary Writers Who Have Adapted Other People's Books for the Screen

13 Literary Writers Who Have Adapted Other People's Books for the Screen

Or: When Aldous Huxley Wrote Pride and Prejudice

By Emily Temple | July 26, 2018

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Grammar Purity is One Big Ponzi Scheme

By June Casagrande | July 26, 2018

How I Wrote My Memoir, One Notecard at a Time

By Melissa Stephenson | July 26, 2018

From Apartment to Bryant Park: A Poetry Salon Grows Up

By Joshunda Sanders | July 25, 2018

Edy Poppy Talks Sex, Love, and Boredom with Siri Hustvedt

Edy Poppy Talks Sex, Love, and Boredom with Siri Hustvedt

The Author of Anatomy. Monotony. Approaches the Edge of Autofiction

By Literary Hub | July 25, 2018

Once Upon a Time in New York: A Sublet of One's Own

Once Upon a Time in New York: A Sublet of One's Own

On Loving And Then Leaving The Perfect Illegal Sublet

By Andrea Kleine | July 23, 2018

Working With a Photographer Taught Me to See Writing Differently

Working With a Photographer Taught Me to See Writing Differently

"I Began to Appreciate Just How Visual the World Out There Was"

By John Lingan | July 20, 2018

The Loneliness of Long-Distance Writing

The Loneliness of Long-Distance Writing

One Foot After the Other, One Word Follows the Next

By Nick Ripatrazone | July 20, 2018

Do Great Writers Really Steal? On Plagiarism and Publishing

Do Great Writers Really Steal? On Plagiarism and Publishing

The Art of Fielding Law Suit Has Come to an End. OR HAS IT?

By Lincoln Michel | July 19, 2018

Why I Can't Stop Attempting Impossible Reading Projects

Why I Can't Stop Attempting Impossible Reading Projects

For Every Book You Manage to Read, There are 1,000 You’ll Never Get To

By Jonathan Arlan | July 19, 2018

Series, Sagas, Cycles... How About We Call Them

Series, Sagas, Cycles... How About We Call Them "River Novels"?

Kent Wascom: A Different Way of Thinking About Maximalist Storytelling

By Kent Wascom | July 19, 2018

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