Why I Wrote a Novel Full of Secondary Characters

Why I Wrote a Novel Full of Secondary Characters

María José Ferrada on Precarity, Loss, and Traveling Salesmen

By María José Ferrada | February 17, 2021

Struggling in Workshop with the Question of Cultural Appropriation

Struggling in Workshop with the Question of Cultural Appropriation

Paisley Rekdal’s Letters to a Student

By Paisley Rekdal | February 16, 2021

Locked Down in Denmark, Learning a Language and Finishing a Novel

Locked Down in Denmark, Learning a Language and Finishing a Novel

Maria Adelmann on the Rewards of Endurance

By Maria Adelmann | February 16, 2021

Te-Ping Chen: The Lived of Experience of China is More <em>Brave New World</em> Than <em>1984</em>

Te-Ping Chen: The Lived of Experience of China is More Brave New World Than 1984

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | February 16, 2021

No Failure of Imagination: Gina Apostol on Revolution, Illusion, and Translation

No Failure of Imagination: Gina Apostol on Revolution, Illusion, and Translation

Sabina Murray Talks to the Author of The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata

By Sabina Murray | February 16, 2021

How Being an Airbnb Host and Cleaning Toilets Helped Me Write a Novel

How Being an Airbnb Host and Cleaning Toilets Helped Me Write a Novel

Kate Russo on What it Took to Write Her Novel Super Host

By Kate Russo | February 12, 2021

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On the Connection Between Chinese Folktales and American Comic Book Heroes

By Gene Luen Yang | February 11, 2021

Brandon Hobson on Getting to the Truth Through Surreality

By The Maris Review | February 11, 2021

‘A Certain Kind of Hunger’: Chang-rae Lee on Writing Connection While We're Worlds Apart

By Fiction Non Fiction | February 11, 2021

From Stage to Screen to Page... A Few Notes on Writing Across Media

From Stage to Screen to Page... A Few Notes on Writing Across Media

Jen Silverman on Taking Risks and Following Your Artistic Vision

By Jen Silverman | February 11, 2021

Thomas Grattan on Writing a Joyful Queer Protagonist

Thomas Grattan on Writing a Joyful Queer Protagonist

In Conversation with Jackson Howard on Well-Versed

By Well-Versed | February 11, 2021

Emma Copley Eisenberg on the Whiteness and Straightness Embedded in True Crime

Emma Copley Eisenberg on the Whiteness and Straightness Embedded in True Crime

This Week from the Reading Women Podcast

By Reading Women | February 10, 2021

Vendela Vida on Finding Humor in the Darker Side of <br>Teenage Life

Vendela Vida on Finding Humor in the Darker Side of
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The Author of We Run the Tides Talks to Jane Ciabattari

By Jane Ciabattari | February 9, 2021

How to Keep Track of Your Characters With Index Cards, String, and a Lot of Clothes Pins

How to Keep Track of Your Characters With Index Cards, String, and a Lot of Clothes Pins

Rebecca Sacks on Managing a Cast of Dozens of Imaginary People

By Bee Sacks | February 9, 2021

Joyce Carol Oates Thinks You Should Write Your Heart Out

Joyce Carol Oates Thinks You Should Write Your Heart Out

A Conversation with the Author of American Melancholy: Poems

By Literary Hub | February 9, 2021

Jenny Offill: Everyone’s Always Hoping for Some Kind of Plot

Jenny Offill: Everyone’s Always Hoping for Some Kind of Plot

This Week on So Many Damn Books

By So Many Damn Books | February 9, 2021

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