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Playing the End: Alice Austen on Writing Character Like an Actor

Playing the End: Alice Austen on Writing Character Like an Actor

“We all have layers; we are all actors playing our parts.”

By Alice Austen | March 14, 2025

Why We Fear Real-Life Dystopia but Love Dystopian Fiction

Why We Fear Real-Life Dystopia but Love Dystopian Fiction

Laila Lalami: "Our world... may not be the best of all possible worlds, but it’s the one we have—and the one we make."

By Laila Lalami | March 13, 2025

The Annotated Nightstand: What Mónica de la Torre Is Reading Now, and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Mónica de la Torre Is Reading Now, and Next

Featuring Amelia Rosselli, Samuel Beckett, Prem Krishnamurthy, and Others

By Diana Arterian | March 13, 2025

Playing With Paradoxes: Utilizing Time Travel as a Part of Plot and Process

Playing With Paradoxes: Utilizing Time Travel as a Part of Plot and Process

Catriona Silvey on Rewriting Her First Novel With Over a Decade’s Worth of Critical Distance and Life Experience

By Catriona Silvey | March 12, 2025

Helen Garner on Henry Green's <em>Party Going</em>

Helen Garner on Henry Green's Party Going

In Conversation with Michael Kelleher for the Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast

By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast | March 12, 2025

Carvell Wallace on Changing Perspective

Carvell Wallace on Changing Perspective

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on Thresholds

By Thresholds | March 12, 2025

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Karen Russell Received an Ice Bucket as a Courtship Gift, and Other Literary Tidbits

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Write Like a Girl: On Learning to Break Free of Literary Gendered Expectations

Write Like a Girl: On Learning to Break Free of Literary Gendered Expectations

Sanjena Sathian: “Moving between identities is what I most crave as an artist. And it’s also all my characters want.”

By Sanjena Sathian | March 11, 2025

What Western Art Can Learn from Hayao Miyazaki’s Radical Portrayals of Childhood

What Western Art Can Learn from Hayao Miyazaki’s Radical Portrayals of Childhood

Henry Lien on Self-Esteem, "My Neighbor Totoro," and Defying Box-Office Tropes

By Henry Lien | March 10, 2025

Writing Biography Without an Archive: On Recovering a Past Believed to Be Lost

Writing Biography Without an Archive: On Recovering a Past Believed to Be Lost

Vanda Krefft Offers Some Tips to Help Those Who Are Struggling To Find Primary Sources

By Vanda Krefft | March 10, 2025

Sarah Gerard on Putting a Life on the Page

Sarah Gerard on Putting a Life on the Page

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | March 10, 2025

Sari Botton on Hard-Won Wisdom

Sari Botton on Hard-Won Wisdom

From the Write-minded Podcast, Hosted by Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner

By Memoir Nation | March 10, 2025

Jonathan Tarleton on the Limits of Research—and Making Peace with What You Don’t Know

Jonathan Tarleton on the Limits of Research—and Making Peace with What You Don’t Know

Against Turning Every Page

By Jonathan Tarleton | March 7, 2025

There Are Too Many DAMN Commas in Books These Days: Am I the Literary Asshole?

There Are Too Many DAMN Commas in Books These Days: Am I the Literary Asshole?

Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior

By Kristen Arnett | March 6, 2025

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