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Learning How to Write Girls with Agency in Fiction

Learning How to Write Girls with Agency in Fiction

Stephanie Jimenez: Imagining Girlhood Beyond the Threat
of Sexual Violence

By Stephanie Jimenez | July 29, 2019

Why Don't I Read All My Books?

Why Don't I Read All My Books?

Karen Olsson on the Ghosts on Her Shelves

By Karen Olsson | July 26, 2019

In the Woods: Telling the Finnish-American Immigrant Story

In the Woods: Telling the Finnish-American Immigrant Story

Karl Marlantes on the Hardworking Lives of His Ancestors

By Karl Marlantes | July 23, 2019

Writing Through Extreme Grief Helped Me Become Myself Again

Writing Through Extreme Grief Helped Me Become Myself Again

Margaret Renkl on the Unexpected Catalyst for Writing Her First Book

By Margaret Renkl | July 19, 2019

On the Fine (and Difficult) Art of Science Writing

On the Fine (and Difficult) Art of Science Writing

Randi Hutter Epstein: When Even Science Isn't An Exact Science

By Randi Hutter Epstein | July 17, 2019

How <em>General Hospital</em> Inspired My New Novel

How General Hospital Inspired My New Novel

Why Marcy Dermansky is Not Afraid to Mess With Her Characters

By Marcy Dermansky | July 11, 2019

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The Liberation and Consternation of Writing a Whole Book with Paper and Pen

By Jeff Gordinier | July 10, 2019

How Fiction Fuses the Incompatible Realities of Religion and Comedy

By Randy Boyagoda | July 9, 2019

When the World Matches the Apocalypse in Your Novel

By Kimi Eisele | July 8, 2019

What Fiction Writers Can Learn from Stage Magicians

What Fiction Writers Can Learn from Stage Magicians

Gabriel Urza on the Literary Virtues of Defamiliarization

By Gabriel Urza | July 1, 2019

Working on a Novel About an Artist? Write Like a Painter

Working on a Novel About an Artist? Write Like a Painter

Kummer on Picasso, van Gogh, Hopper, and the
Painterly Art of Observation

By Luke Jerod Kummer | July 1, 2019

Alix Ohlin: How to Write—and Not—About the Struggle to Have a Child

Alix Ohlin: How to Write—and Not—About the Struggle to Have a Child

On Motherhood, Fertility, and Gendered Readings of Women's Books

By Alix Ohlin | June 26, 2019

I Read One Hundred Books<br> Just to Write One

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Heather O'Neill on the Compulsive Joy of Endless Research

By Heather O'Neill | June 26, 2019

How We Fictionalize Anger to Understand the World

How We Fictionalize Anger to Understand the World

Rachel DeWoskin on the Literary and Political Value of Rage

By Rachel DeWoskin | June 24, 2019

What Anne Sexton Taught Me About... Self-Promotion

What Anne Sexton Taught Me About... Self-Promotion

Joy Lanzendorfer on Balancing Social Anxiety and the Need for Writerly Networking

By Joy Lanzendorfer | June 18, 2019

Jayson Greene on the Risks of Writing About Grief

Jayson Greene on the Risks of Writing About Grief

"The worst stories are the self-serving ones."

By Hannah Seidlitz | June 17, 2019

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