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Learning the Hard Way That Writing a Book is Not Like Writing for TV

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)

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)

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

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

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

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

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  • Glorious Country: How the Artist Frederic Church Brought the World to America and America to the World

The Bluebeard Myth is Forever Relevant

By Catherine Burns | October 19, 2017

In Writing, We Get to Be Bolder, Riskier, and More Foolish

By Panio Gianopoulos | October 18, 2017

A Day in the Life of a Freelancer

By Lorraine Berry | October 18, 2017

America, Land of the Refugee

America, Land of the Refugee

Betsy Carter Rediscovers the Lives of Her Immigrant Parents

By Betsy Carter | October 16, 2017

Art Inspired by Italo Calvino's <em>Invisible Cities</em>

Art Inspired by Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities

"Elsewhere is a negative mirror."

By Emily Temple | October 13, 2017

A Selection of Virginia Woolf's Most Savage Insults

A Selection of Virginia Woolf's Most Savage Insults

Marmoreal, Uncooked, Inarticulate, Pimpled, Unrefined, Limp

By Emily Temple | October 12, 2017

How Paris Turned Me Into a Writer

How Paris Turned Me Into a Writer

Piu Eatwell Discovers the Ex-Pat Life

By Piu Eatwell | October 12, 2017

Katherine Mansfield on the Thrilling Joy of Creation

Katherine Mansfield on the Thrilling Joy of Creation

and your knees become apples, too?"">"When you paint apples do you feel that your breasts
and your knees become apples, too?"

By Emily Temple | October 11, 2017

137 Writers and the Words They're Best Known For

137 Writers and the Words They're Best Known For

Kaveh Akbar Presents a Crowdsourced List of Signature Literary Words

By Kaveh Akbar | October 11, 2017

Watch Karl Ove Knausgaard's Lecture: Why I Write

Watch Karl Ove Knausgaard's Lecture: Why I Write

Presenting the Key-Note Address for the 2017 Windham-Campbell Prizes

By Literary Hub | October 5, 2017

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