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Craft and Advice
Susan Sontag on Being a Writer: "You Have to Be Obsessed"
And other insights on craft from the legendary critic and novelist
By
Emily Temple
| November 15, 2017
Counting Feet: On Running and Poetic Meter
The Library and the Track Have More in Common Than You Might Think
By
Chris Townsend
| November 15, 2017
Eduardo Galeano: Why I Became a Writer
The Late, Great Uruguayan Speaks of the Sea to Those Who Will Never See It
By
Eduardo Galeano
| November 9, 2017
Kazuo Ishiguro: 'Write What You Know' is the Stupidest Thing I've Ever Heard
And Other Hot Tips from the Newly Crowned Nobel Laureate
By
Emily Temple
| November 8, 2017
Writing a Novel in the Age of Peak Content
Notes from the Midst of A Terrifying Digital Flowering
By
Barret Baumgart
| November 6, 2017
No One Cares About Your Dreams—Unless You're a Famous Writer
Saul Bellow, Susan Sontag, Sylvia Plath and more on their nighttime visions
By
Emily Temple
| November 1, 2017
Best Reviewed
Books of the Week
I Talked to 150 Writers and Here's the Best Advice They Had
By
Joe Fassler
| October 26, 2017
6 Famous Writers Injured While Writing
By
Emily Temple
| October 25, 2017
How to Spend a Literary Long Weekend in Boston
By
Oset Babur
| October 25, 2017
Learning the Hard Way That Writing a Book is Not Like Writing for TV
Evany Rosen on Assembling Her Own Personal Writers Room
By
Evany Rosen
| October 25, 2017
At Oslo's House of Literature, a Free Space for Ideas (and Writers)
How Can We Make This Kind of Thing Happen in America?
By
Kerri Arsenault
| October 20, 2017
Jennifer Egan Makes Friends Across Seven Decades (and Countless Letters)
The Author of
Manhattan Beach
on the Intimacy of Historical Research
By
Jennifer Egan
| October 19, 2017
Black Francis: Ray Bradbury Validated My Desire to Write
The Front Man of the Pixies on the Writer Who Changed His Life
By
Black Francis
| October 19, 2017
A Stroke Made My Mother a Poet, I Merely Transcribed
For
Freeman's
Marius Chivu on the Origins of His First Poem
By
Marius Chivu
| October 19, 2017
Breaking Good: Why Artists Remake, Experiment, and Smash Tradition
On Remodeling Not Only the Imperfect, but the Beloved
By
Anthony Brandt and David Eagleman
| October 19, 2017
The Bluebeard Myth is Forever Relevant
Catherine Burns on Women Trapped in Abusive Relationships
By
Catherine Burns
| October 19, 2017
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