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Where Are the Likes? Coming to Terms with Being a Writer on Social Media

Where Are the Likes? Coming to Terms with Being a Writer on Social Media

When News of Publication Garners Way More Attention Than the Writing Itself

By Nick Ripatrazone | August 31, 2017

Dear Rick Moody: What Should I Say About My Scars?

Dear Rick Moody: What Should I Say About My Scars?

A Complicated Past Doesn't Need to Be a Complicated Present

By Rick Moody | August 31, 2017

The Photograph That Helped Me Finish My Book

The Photograph That Helped Me Finish My Book

Laura Schenone Finds Endurance in the Work of Fay Godwin

By Laura Schenone | August 30, 2017

15 Famous Writers on the Perils of a Formal Education

15 Famous Writers on the Perils of a Formal Education

And Why Libraries > Classrooms

By Emily Temple | August 29, 2017

Why I Made My Main Character a Right Wing Blogger

Why I Made My Main Character a Right Wing Blogger

Jonathan Dee on Spending Years with a Character He Didn't Quite Understand

By Jonathan Dee | August 28, 2017

Why a Party is a Perfect Literary Device

Why a Party is a Perfect Literary Device

Most People have a Party Persona at Odds with the Real Person Beneath

By Elizabeth Day | August 25, 2017

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I Made a Mistake in My Book and the Internet Went Nuts

By Rebecca Schuman | August 21, 2017

Are We Different Writers When We Move From Longhand to a Screen?

By James Draney | August 18, 2017

Getting It Right: How to Rebuild Scenes from the Past

By Benjamin Rachlin | August 18, 2017

Jill Bialosky: The Time I Moved to New York City to Be a Poet

Jill Bialosky: The Time I Moved to New York City to Be a Poet

On Finding Meaning in Art and Work in the Big City

By Jill Bialosky | August 17, 2017

Fact, Fiction, and When a Novel Crosses the Line

Fact, Fiction, and When a Novel Crosses the Line

Joanna Scott on the Illusive Boundaries of Truth and Literature

By Joanna Scott | August 15, 2017

How to Write This Year’s “Definitive Novel” of the East Village in the 1980s

How to Write This Year’s “Definitive Novel” of the East Village in the 1980s

Jarett Kobek Gives Away His Professional Secrets

By Jarett Kobek | August 14, 2017

Katie Kitamura on Subverting Tropes in <em>A Separation</em>

Katie Kitamura on Subverting Tropes in A Separation

Because All Books Have Dead Women and Tidy Endings

By Emily Temple | August 14, 2017

Writing Just Enough Detail, But Not Too Much

Writing Just Enough Detail, But Not Too Much

Daniel Galera on Finding That Perfect Description

By Daniel Galera | August 14, 2017

How Pickles Help Me Survive the Horrible, Wonderful Life of a Writer

How Pickles Help Me Survive the Horrible, Wonderful Life of a Writer

Danya Kukafka on Her One, True Love: A Good Pickle

By Danya Kukafka | August 11, 2017

Charlie Jane Anders on Writing the Future

Charlie Jane Anders on Writing the Future

When the Drone Strikes in Your Story Become the Drone Strikes in the Sky

By Emily Temple | August 10, 2017

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