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Lynda Barry: A Comic Exercise in Building Character

Lynda Barry: A Comic Exercise in Building Character

Create Your Characters and Build Their World in Less Than an Hour

By Lynda Barry | December 19, 2019

When Your Family Figures Out You're a Writer... and Loves You For It

When Your Family Figures Out You're a Writer... and Loves You For It

Melissa Woods on the Unlikely Intersections of
Child-Rearing and Novel-Writing

By Melissa M. Woods | December 19, 2019

How Do Some Authors “Lose Control” of Their Characters?

How Do Some Authors “Lose Control” of Their Characters?

Is it the Mysterious Work of the Unconscious, or the Mechanized Brain?

By Jim Davies | December 18, 2019

How a Mathematical Model Rescued My Book About Math

How a Mathematical Model Rescued My Book About Math

Ben Orlin Used Calculus to Fix His Floundering Draft

By Ben Orlin | December 17, 2019

Teaching High Schoolers the Ingenuity and Prowess of Poetry

Teaching High Schoolers the Ingenuity and Prowess of Poetry

Nick Ripatrazone Speaks to Teacher Joel Mayo

By Nick Ripatrazone | December 17, 2019

Confessions of an Undercover Novelist

Confessions of an Undercover Novelist

Abigail Hing Wen on Difficult Family Conversations

By Abigail Hing Wen | December 16, 2019

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Michael Frank on the Hard Work of Waiting and Making it to the Other Side

By But That's Another Story | December 16, 2019

Who Has the Right to Be a Writer?

By Stewart Sinclair | December 12, 2019

The Light As She Saw It: On Sitting in Emily Dickinson's Bedroom

By Julie Dobrow | December 11, 2019

From the Diaries of Helen Garner: The Trials of <br>Daily Life, c. 1979

From the Diaries of Helen Garner: The Trials of
Daily Life, c. 1979

“Memo: do not drink coffee. It engenders baseless optimism about
my powers of creation.”

By Freeman's | December 9, 2019

Bohumil Hrabal, the Writing Machine Who Couldn't Stop

Bohumil Hrabal, the Writing Machine Who Couldn't Stop

The Czech Writer Remembers What It Was to
Fall in Love with Literature

By Bohumil Hrabal | December 6, 2019

How Journalism Made a <br>Poet Out of Me

How Journalism Made a
Poet Out of Me

Gillian Conoley on Objectivity, Reportage, and Truth

By Gillian Conoley | December 6, 2019

Creating Literary Community for Writers Raising Children

Creating Literary Community for Writers Raising Children

Pen Parentis Turns Ten!

By Matt Grant | December 6, 2019

Charles Wright's Resistance Against Certainty

Charles Wright's Resistance Against Certainty

Mary Szybist on the Poetics of Her Former Teacher

By Mary Szybist | December 5, 2019

Ann and Jeff VanderMeer Talk Classic Fantasy, Fearsome Ducks, and Dead Astronauts

Ann and Jeff VanderMeer Talk Classic Fantasy, Fearsome Ducks, and Dead Astronauts

Live from the Miami Book Fair with Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | December 5, 2019

Reading the Unpublished Novel My Mother Took<br> 30 Years to Write

Reading the Unpublished Novel My Mother Took
30 Years to Write

Caroline Scott on Realizing an Unlikely Family Dream

By Caroline Scott | December 5, 2019

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