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Katharine Smyth: Forgetting Virginia Woolf

Katharine Smyth: Forgetting Virginia Woolf

To Understand My Own Work I Had to Move Away From Hers

By Katharine Smyth | February 4, 2019

On the Destabilizing Brilliance of Robert Coover's

On the Destabilizing Brilliance of Robert Coover's "The Babysitter"

Or, How to Accept the Pain of Not Knowing

By Emily Temple | February 4, 2019

Poet, Artist, Erotic Muse of Mexico's Avant Garde: Rediscovering Nahui Olin

Poet, Artist, Erotic Muse of Mexico's Avant Garde: Rediscovering Nahui Olin

On the Life and Times of a True Iconoclast

By Claire Mullen | February 1, 2019

Designing My Characters' Homes Helps Me Write

Designing My Characters' Homes Helps Me Write

On Planners, Plungers, and Different Approaches to Writing a Novel

By Lisa Gornick | February 1, 2019

Living Fernando Pessoa's Dreamlife in Lisbon

Living Fernando Pessoa's Dreamlife in Lisbon

Saleem Haddad on Leaving London for Portugal's Melancholy Streets

By Saleem Haddad | January 31, 2019

On Finding My Way Back to Writing After Years Away

On Finding My Way Back to Writing After Years Away

Parenthood Was an Interruption, Not an End

By Sibylla Nash | January 31, 2019

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But What Will Your Daughters Think?

By Emily Bernard | January 30, 2019

How Learning to Draw Can Help a Writer to See

By Kiley Bense | January 30, 2019

How to Explore Literary Yorkshire

By Lauren Cocking | January 28, 2019

I Saw My Novel's Protagonist Walking Across the Street

I Saw My Novel's Protagonist Walking Across the Street

Dana Czapnik on Finding Creations in Unexpected Places

By Dana Czapnik | January 28, 2019

Are These Bad Habits Creeping Into Your Writing?

Are These Bad Habits Creeping Into Your Writing?

Benjamin Dreyer, the Internet's Copy Editor in Chief, Would Rather You Didn't

By Benjamin Dreyer | January 25, 2019

Deconstructing Old Stories to Tell Them in New Ways

Deconstructing Old Stories to Tell Them in New Ways

Daisy Johnson on the Limits of the Wholly New

By Daisy Johnson | January 25, 2019

What Was Virginia Woolf Like as a Child?

What Was Virginia Woolf Like as a Child?

Your First Clue: Her Nickname Was "the Goat"

By Emily Temple | January 25, 2019

How Virginia Woolf Taught Me to Mourn

How Virginia Woolf Taught Me to Mourn

Two Writers Grieving for a Parent, a Century Apart

By Katharine Smyth | January 25, 2019

Lawrence Ferlinghetti on the Cusp of 100

Lawrence Ferlinghetti on the Cusp of 100

Friends and Co-Workers Reflect on the Poet-Publisher's Legacy

By Jonah Raskin | January 24, 2019

Kristen Arnett: Am I a Librarian or a Writer?

Kristen Arnett: Am I a Librarian or a Writer?

Ed. Note: The Word 'Wribrarian' May Have Appeared in Drafts of This Column

By Kristen Arnett | January 23, 2019

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