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Creating Without Inhibition: In Praise of Making Bad Art

Creating Without Inhibition: In Praise of Making Bad Art

Anna Hogeland: ”I could only make good art if I made bad art, too, and so I began making bad art an integral part of my creative practice.”

By Anna Hogeland | November 5, 2025

The Invitation of Brevity: Ten Novels in Verse That Will Hook You

The Invitation of Brevity: Ten Novels in Verse That Will Hook You

Amber McBride Recommends Anne Carson, Ibi Zoboi, Jason Reynolds, and More

By Amber McBride | November 5, 2025

Finding the Truth In the Imaginary: On “Accurately” Writing About Time Travel

Finding the Truth In the Imaginary: On “Accurately” Writing About Time Travel

Aja Gabel Offers Some Tips For Crafting Scientifically and Emotionally Sound Speculative Fiction

By Aja Gabel | November 4, 2025

Jodi-Ann Burey on Speechwriting, Authenticity, and Adapting Her TED Talk into a Book

Jodi-Ann Burey on Speechwriting, Authenticity, and Adapting Her TED Talk into a Book

Claire Dederer Talks to the Author of Authentic: The Myth of Bringing Your Full Self to Work

By Claire Dederer | November 4, 2025

The Epiphany in the Ordinary: A Conversation With Teju Cole

The Epiphany in the Ordinary: A Conversation With Teju Cole

Jennifer Acker Talks to Cole About Genre-Bending, How Artists Bear Witness to Tragedy, and More

By Jennifer Acker | November 3, 2025

E. Jean Carroll on Writing on Trial

E. Jean Carroll on Writing on Trial

From the Memoir Nation Podcast, Hosted by Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner

By Memoir Nation | November 3, 2025

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Catherine Newman on the Humor of the Unexpected

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Feeding Our Ghosts: How Food Invokes Memories of Ones Loved and Lost

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Daria Lavelle on the Bond Between Taste and the Departed

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Yes, You Are the Literary Asshole If You Use AI to Edit Your Fiction

Yes, You Are the Literary Asshole If You Use AI to Edit Your Fiction

Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior

By Kristen Arnett | October 30, 2025

Porn, But Also Literature: On John Cleland’s <em>Fanny Hill</em>

Porn, But Also Literature: On John Cleland’s Fanny Hill

A Conversation Between Chelsea G. Summers and Jessica Stoya

By Chelsea G. Summers and Jessica Stoya | October 30, 2025

Why I Give My Books Away For Free

Why I Give My Books Away For Free

Shane Hinton Won’t Let Money Stand in the Way of a Potential Reader

By Shane Hinton | October 29, 2025

Crafting a Documentary Poetics of Resistance in the Shadow of State Violence

Crafting a Documentary Poetics of Resistance in the Shadow of State Violence

“In situations in which the story of people is being smothered by institutions of power, adversarial documents can provide an opening.”

By Teresa Dzieglewicz | October 29, 2025

Susan Straight on Chronicling the Impact of COVID-19 in Fiction

Susan Straight on Chronicling the Impact of COVID-19 in Fiction

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of Sacrament

By Jane Ciabattari | October 28, 2025

Writers Beware: On the Dangerous Fine Print of Creative Contract Law

Writers Beware: On the Dangerous Fine Print of Creative Contract Law

“If Kafka were alive today, he wouldn’t be unpublished—he’d be under NDA.”

By Aron Solomon | October 27, 2025

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