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Notorious Literary Muses from Best to Worst

Notorious Literary Muses from Best to Worst

Happy Birthday, Vita Sackville-West

By Emily Temple | March 9, 2017

Alice Neel: How to Persevere and Live the Artist's Life

Alice Neel: How to Persevere and Live the Artist's Life

On the Life and Times of a Great American Portraitist

By Bridget Quinn | March 8, 2017

How I Learned to Stop Worrying About the Market and Just Write

How I Learned to Stop Worrying About the Market and Just Write

From Editor to Ghostwriter, the Ten Year Tale of a First Novel

By Peternelle van Arsdale | March 2, 2017

Gish Jen on the Profound Differences Between Chinese and American Culture

Gish Jen on the Profound Differences Between Chinese and American Culture

Culture Shock, Interdependence, and Surviving Yonkers...

By Dylan Foley | March 1, 2017

Failure and Patience: Lessons from the Garden for Writers

Failure and Patience: Lessons from the Garden for Writers

Yoojin Grace Wuertz on the Long Road to Her First Novel

By Yoojin Grace Wuertz | February 28, 2017

The Writer As Public Figure vs. The Writer Who Actually Writes

The Writer As Public Figure vs. The Writer Who Actually Writes

Karolina Ramqvist on the Struggle to Balance Success and Meaning

By Karolina Ramqvist | February 27, 2017

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Know What You Write (Not Write What You Know)

By Tim Gautreaux | February 24, 2017

The Time I Wrote a Sitcom For Disney

By Susan Sherman | February 24, 2017

Reading Across America: On the Importance of the Venue

By Stephen Langlois | February 23, 2017

8 Highly Unusual Writing Residencies

8 Highly Unusual Writing Residencies

All Clearly Better than Being on Display at the Mall of America

By Emily Temple | February 22, 2017

When Writing a Biography Becomes a Race Against Death

When Writing a Biography Becomes a Race Against Death

Ted Geltner on the Morbidity Inherent to Writing About a Life

By Ted Geltner | February 22, 2017

Poetry Needs a Revolution That Goes Beyond Style

Poetry Needs a Revolution That Goes Beyond Style

From the Introduction to Best American Experimental Writing 2016

By Charles Bernstein and Tracie Morris | February 17, 2017

My Job Writing Custom Erotic Love Letters

My Job Writing Custom Erotic Love Letters

Lorraine Berry on the Time She Paid the Bills as a 'Literary Courtesan'

By Lorraine Berry | February 14, 2017

On Being a Mother and a Writer in a Time of War

On Being a Mother and a Writer in a Time of War

Lydia Peelle, in Search of Lost Time

By Lydia Peelle | February 10, 2017

Every Word is an Act of Resistance: Finding My Voice as a Filipino Writer

Every Word is an Act of Resistance: Finding My Voice as a Filipino Writer

Renee Rutledge on a Creative Life Spent in Defiance of Preconceptions

By Renee Macalino Rutledge | February 10, 2017

The Importance of Play: On Finding Joy in your Writing Practice

The Importance of Play: On Finding Joy in your Writing Practice

How to Approach Your Work with Open Hands, Not Closed Fists

By Susan Bruns Rowe | February 2, 2017

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