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Jean Kwok on Infusing Mystery into Literary Fiction

Jean Kwok on Infusing Mystery into Literary Fiction

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

By Memoir Nation | February 24, 2025

Eric Puchner: How to Be Funny When Writing a Novel

Eric Puchner: How to Be Funny When Writing a Novel

“When in doubt, leave the reaction out.”

By Eric Puchner | February 21, 2025

Clinging to an Ardent Hope: Eli Zuzovsky on Film, Selfhood, and Being an Israeli Writer Today

Clinging to an Ardent Hope: Eli Zuzovsky on Film, Selfhood, and Being an Israeli Writer Today

Neel Mukherjee in Conversation with the Author of "Mazeltov"

By Eli Zuzovsky | February 21, 2025

Am I the Literary Asshole for Thinking All Book Covers Look the Same?

Am I the Literary Asshole for Thinking All Book Covers Look the Same?

Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior

By Kristen Arnett | February 20, 2025

Inky and Determined: In Praise of Writers Who Self-Publish

Inky and Determined: In Praise of Writers Who Self-Publish

Lewis Buzbee on the Benefits of Taking Book Production Into Your Own Hands

By Lewis Buzbee | February 20, 2025

How Walking Shaped Simone and Hélène de Beauvoir's Art and Thought

How Walking Shaped Simone and Hélène de Beauvoir's Art and Thought

Annabel Abbs-Streets on the Idiosyncratic Way the Beauvoirs Hiked Through the World

By Annabel Abbs | February 19, 2025

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How the Kremlin’s Truly Epic Adaptation of War and Peace Helped Me Write a Novel

By Elyse Durham | February 19, 2025

Novelists, Trust Me: You Can Really Learn a Lot About Storytelling From Video Games Like Elden Ring

By Nick Newman | February 19, 2025

What My Father’s Emails Taught Me About the Craft of Writing

By Emily J. Smith | February 19, 2025

Dreams of Liberation: Alex Zamalin on the Political Power of American Countercultures

Dreams of Liberation: Alex Zamalin on the Political Power of American Countercultures

The Author of “Counterculture” in Conversation with Aaron Robertson

By Aaron Robertson | February 19, 2025

Poetry’s “Flirty, Winking Middle Space.” Sarah Lyn Rogers on the Speaker as Mask in Verse

Poetry’s “Flirty, Winking Middle Space.” Sarah Lyn Rogers on the Speaker as Mask in Verse

The Author of “Cosmic Tantrum” Explores Ritual and Poetic Personas

By Sarah Lyn Rogers | February 18, 2025

T Bambrick and Jane Miller are Writing Past the Harm

T Bambrick and Jane Miller are Writing Past the Harm

In Conversation with Lena Crown on Awakeners

By awakeners | February 18, 2025

Dennis James Sweeney on How to Submit

Dennis James Sweeney on How to Submit

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

By Memoir Nation | February 18, 2025

Beautiful and Innovative: In Praise of Artistic Experimentation in Literature

Beautiful and Innovative: In Praise of Artistic Experimentation in Literature

Sam Mills Makes the Case For Marrying the Literary and the Visual in Fiction and Nonfiction

By Sam Mills | February 14, 2025

Roisín O’Donnell on Developing a Short Story into a Novel

Roisín O’Donnell on Developing a Short Story into a Novel

By Roisín O'Donnell | February 14, 2025

Getting Rid of Book Blurbs? Easier Said Than Done

Getting Rid of Book Blurbs? Easier Said Than Done

Maris Kreizman on One of Publishing’s Eternal Inevitabilities

By Maris Kreizman | February 13, 2025

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