Inventing Truths: What Toni Morrison’s Fiction Taught Me About Writing Memoir

Inventing Truths: What Toni Morrison’s Fiction Taught Me About Writing Memoir

Bridgett M. Davis on the Creative Lessons Learned From an Icon of American Literature

By Bridgett M. Davis | April 7, 2025

Lynn Steger Strong on the Importance of Imaginative Truth in Fiction and Nonfiction

Lynn Steger Strong on the Importance of Imaginative Truth in Fiction and Nonfiction

“The goal is not to tell the reader the facts as they happened, but to, hopefully, bring a bunch of sentences and paragraphs to imagistic life.”

By Lynn Steger Strong | April 7, 2025

Colum McCann on the Arts in Question

Colum McCann on the Arts in Question

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | April 7, 2025

Write-Minded on Miranda July's <em>All Fours</em>

Write-Minded on Miranda July's All Fours

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

By Memoir Nation | April 7, 2025

Maggie Smith on Embracing Imperfection, in Life and Art

Maggie Smith on Embracing Imperfection, in Life and Art

“The mistake, in fact, is a gift. The break, or breakdown, allows for a breakthrough.”

By Maggie Smith | April 4, 2025

Memory, Care, Protection: Crystal Hana Kim on the Many Uses of Food

Memory, Care, Protection: Crystal Hana Kim on the Many Uses of Food

“To pay attention to the meal in front of you is to commit your hope and faith.”

By Crystal Hana Kim | April 4, 2025

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Fighting for One’s Fiction: How Norman Mailer Taught Me to Defend My Plots

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Can Writers Ever Remember How to Read For Fun?

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Amy Shearn on Accidentally Killing Her Book Group and Rediscovering the Joys of Getting Lost in a Story

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On the Challenge of Writing a Sequel to a Twenty-Year-Old Novel

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Lee Martin Needed a New Story to Explain the Ending of “The Bright Forever”

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Art, Liberty, Diverse Voices: Six Poets on Why University Presses Are Critical for Poetry

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Karen Russell on What the Magic Offers

Karen Russell on What the Magic Offers

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By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | March 31, 2025

Kate McKean on Your Feelings About Publishing

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By Memoir Nation | March 31, 2025

Dancing on the Page: Sulaiman Addonia on Writing in the Footsteps of Pina Bausch

Dancing on the Page: Sulaiman Addonia on Writing in the Footsteps of Pina Bausch

“I could sense the freedom, yet I didn’t dare to march towards it.”

By Sulaiman Addonia | March 28, 2025

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