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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

Why Does Literature Have So Little to Say About Illness?

Why Does Literature Have So Little to Say About Illness?

Meghan O'Rourke on the Need for More Representation

By Meghan O'Rourke | October 5, 2017

The Pure Pleasure of Reading <em>Lolita</em>'s First 100 Pages

The Pure Pleasure of Reading Lolita's First 100 Pages

Hanya Yanagihara on Nabokov's Rich Language

By Hanya Yanagihara | October 4, 2017

Why Digital Note-Taking Will Never Replace the Physical Journal

Why Digital Note-Taking Will Never Replace the Physical Journal

Bradford Morrow on the Gentle Art of Notebooking

By Bradford Morrow | October 3, 2017

Read William S. Burroughs's Hate Letter to Truman Capote

Read William S. Burroughs's Hate Letter to Truman Capote

Can One Writer Curse Another for Life?

By Emily Temple | October 2, 2017

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I Couldn't Read While Grieving, Until I Found These Books

By Veronica Henry | September 29, 2017

Carson McCullers on Suicide, Psychiatry and the Mind of the Artist

By Emily Temple | September 29, 2017

When I'm Writing Fiction, I Cannot Read It

By Anne Korkeakivi | September 28, 2017

5 Reasons Why a Writer Should Move to Toronto

5 Reasons Why a Writer Should Move to Toronto

A Diverse, Publication-Dense City Close to Nature

By Deidre Olsen | September 28, 2017

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Jessica Shattuck on the Dangers of Making Monsters of Men

By Jessica Shattuck | September 27, 2017

Returning Antoine de Saint-Exupéry to the Skies

Returning Antoine de Saint-Exupéry to the Skies

On the Origins of The Little Prince and Restoring a Classic Plane

By Douglas R. Dechow and Anna Leahy | September 26, 2017

20 Pieces of Writing Advice from William Faulkner

20 Pieces of Writing Advice from William Faulkner

"Don't be 'a writer' but instead be writing."

By Emily Temple | September 25, 2017

What Quilting and Embroidery Can Teach us About Narrative Form

What Quilting and Embroidery Can Teach us About Narrative Form

"Stitches Might Help Writers Break from the Traditions of Built Texts"

By Sarah Minor | September 22, 2017

12 Literary Writers on Stephen King's Influence

12 Literary Writers on Stephen King's Influence

Happy Birthday to the King of Horror

By Emily Temple | September 21, 2017

How A Single Rosh Hashanah Dinner Sparked 10 Years of Research

How A Single Rosh Hashanah Dinner Sparked 10 Years of Research

Devin Murphy on Recording the Memories of the Last WWII Veterans

By Devin Murphy | September 21, 2017

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