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Kurt Vonnegut's Advice for the Impatient Writer

Kurt Vonnegut's Advice for the Impatient Writer

Hint: Don't Wait For Your Loved Ones to Die

By Suzanne McConnell and Kurt Vonnegut | November 11, 2019

What I Learned From Pretending to Be a Pretentious Lit Bro for 5 Years

What I Learned From Pretending to Be a Pretentious Lit Bro for 5 Years

Dana Schwartz, aka @GuyInYourMFA, on Namedropping, the Canon, and More

By Dana Schwartz | November 7, 2019

Big Data vs. Big Dada: Writing Poetry on Demand at a New Orleans Tech Convention

Big Data vs. Big Dada: Writing Poetry on Demand at a New Orleans Tech Convention

Benjamin Aleshire on (Briefly) Going Corporate as a Poet-For-Hire

By Benjamin Aleshire | November 7, 2019

Rosalie Knecht and Idra Novey on Translation, Writing Tension, and Literary 'Retrenchment'

Rosalie Knecht and Idra Novey on Translation, Writing Tension, and Literary 'Retrenchment'

The Authors of Who Is Vera Kelly? and Those Who Knew
Speak to Brian Gresko

By Brian Gresko | November 6, 2019

On the Patchwork Approach to Piecing Together a Book

On the Patchwork Approach to Piecing Together a Book

Heather Christle Considers the Writing of The Crying Book

By Heather Christle | November 5, 2019

How a Writing Mentor Can Change Your Life

How a Writing Mentor Can Change Your Life

Nathan Deuel, in Praise of Jeff Parker

By Nathan Deuel | November 4, 2019

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André Aciman Finds His Way Back to His Famous Lovers

By Brian Gresko | November 1, 2019

Swimming Through Writer's Block at an Icelandic Public Pool

By Amanda Whiting | November 1, 2019

Creepy Stories (and More) from Victor LaValle and Benjamin Percy

By Fiction Non Fiction | October 31, 2019

Kevin Wilson: I Pretend to Have Read Books All the Time

Kevin Wilson: I Pretend to Have Read Books All the Time

On the Genius of Seinfeld and Jennifer Egan

By Kevin Wilson | October 31, 2019

What I Feel When My Daughter Tells Me She Wants to Be a Writer

What I Feel When My Daughter Tells Me She Wants to Be a Writer

Cinelle Barnes on Raising a Brown Girl Who Believes She Can Be Anything

By Cinelle Barnes | October 30, 2019

Reyna Grande on Translating Her Own Book Into Spanish

Reyna Grande on Translating Her Own Book Into Spanish

How an Immigrant Can Lose Touch With Her Mother Tongue

By Reyna Grande | October 29, 2019

The Media Went Crazy When I Made $20,000 in a Week For Writing

The Media Went Crazy When I Made $20,000 in a Week For Writing

The Late Glenn O'Brien on Why People Think Artists Should Suffer

By Glenn O'Brien | October 25, 2019

Six Cartoonists on Critical Failure, One Panel at a Time

Six Cartoonists on Critical Failure, One Panel at a Time

Barbara Smaller, Edward Koren, Mick Stevens, and More

By Bob Eckstein | October 24, 2019

On the Many Different Engines That Power a Short Story

On the Many Different Engines That Power a Short Story

It's Not Just Plot or Character That Drives Fiction

By Lincoln Michel | October 24, 2019

How Pretending to Be Paul McCartney Helped Me Write My Book

How Pretending to Be Paul McCartney Helped Me Write My Book

"Sometimes Paul McCartney isn’t Paul McCartney at all."

By Karl Whitney | October 24, 2019

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