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How 11 Writers Organize Their Personal Libraries

How 11 Writers Organize Their Personal Libraries

You can't put Pynchon next to Plato (Unless They're Both Pink)

By Emily Temple | November 21, 2017

Adrian McKinty Tries to Get Some Writing Done in Kafka's Old Office

Adrian McKinty Tries to Get Some Writing Done in Kafka's Old Office

On Literary Osmosis and the Perils of Trying to Write in Famous Places

By Adrian McKinty | November 21, 2017

See the Detailed Diagrams Kathy Acker Drew of Her Dreams

See the Detailed Diagrams Kathy Acker Drew of Her Dreams

Two Dream Maps from Blood and Guts in High School

By Literary Hub | November 20, 2017

Garth Risk Hallberg on Updating His Debut Novella—10 Years Later

Garth Risk Hallberg on Updating His Debut Novella—10 Years Later

A Field Guide to the North American Family, then and now

By Garth Risk Hallberg | November 17, 2017

Charles Bukowski Wrote So Fast His Publisher Couldn’t Keep Up

Charles Bukowski Wrote So Fast His Publisher Couldn’t Keep Up

On Trying to Get a Poet to Make Copies of His Poems

By Abel Debritto | November 17, 2017

Susan Sontag on Being a Writer:

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

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Counting Feet: On Running and Poetic Meter

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Eduardo Galeano: Why I Became a Writer

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Writing a Novel in the Age of Peak Content

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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

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

I Talked to 150 Writers and Here's the Best Advice They Had

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Joe Fassler on Seven of the Most Common Writing Tips

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6 Famous Writers Injured While Writing

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When Making Stuff is Hazardous to Your Health

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How to Spend a Literary Long Weekend in Boston

How to Spend a Literary Long Weekend in Boston

From a Bar Called Bukowski's to the Oldest Poetry Bookstore in America

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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?

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