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Why I Quit Being a Writer

Why I Quit Being a Writer

Jaime Clarke on Saying Goodbye to the Writing Life

By Jaime Clarke | May 11, 2016

Dear Rick Moody: Should I End My Affair?

Dear Rick Moody: Should I End My Affair?

Rick Moody, Life Coach, on the Cost of Infidelity

By Rick Moody | May 10, 2016

Anton Chekhov: A Post-Post-Modernist Way Ahead of His Time

Anton Chekhov: A Post-Post-Modernist Way Ahead of His Time

What it Means To Be Chekhovian: Lively, Innovative, Experimental

By Peter Constantine | May 9, 2016

Using Crime Fiction to Present Fully Formed Muslim Characters

Using Crime Fiction to Present Fully Formed Muslim Characters

Ausma Zehanat Khan, Human Rights Activist and Mystery Writer

By Marni Graff | May 9, 2016

No One is Writing the Real West Virginia

No One is Writing the Real West Virginia

Why Rural Lives and Literature are in Crisis

By Matthew Neill Null | May 9, 2016

Motherhood vs. Art: There Is No Wrong Choice

Motherhood vs. Art: There Is No Wrong Choice

On Having a Child as a Working Writer

By Diana Abu-Jaber | May 6, 2016

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  • London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth
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  • Yesteryear
  • Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund

Love is Boring and Hard to Write About, And Yet...

By Lydia Millet | May 5, 2016

The Perpetual Solitude of the Writer

By Adam Haslett | May 3, 2016

Novel? Screenplay? Comic? How to Choose the Right Medium For Your Story

By Ken Pisani | May 3, 2016

How Billy Joel Taught Me To Write

How Billy Joel Taught Me To Write

Benjamin Wood Offers a Thoughtful and Irony-Free Appreciation of the Piano Man

By Benjamin Wood | May 2, 2016

Infiltrating Literature's Secret Societies

Infiltrating Literature's Secret Societies

Tobias Carroll on Our Fascination with All-Powerful, Unseen Institutions

By Tobias Carroll | April 29, 2016

How Mapping Alice Munro's Stories Helped Me As a Writer

How Mapping Alice Munro's Stories Helped Me As a Writer

Elizabeth Poliner On the Shapes That Fiction Can Take

By Elizabeth Poliner | April 27, 2016

On the Heartbreaking Difficulty of Getting Rid of Books

On the Heartbreaking Difficulty of Getting Rid of Books

Summer Brennan Attempts Marie Kondo's Approach to Tidying Up Her Library

By Summer Brennan | April 26, 2016

How to Write Teen Girl Characters

How to Write Teen Girl Characters

Nora Zelevansky Interviews Teens, Learns Some New Hip Tricks

By Nora Zelevansky | April 20, 2016

Discovering What AWP is Truly About

Discovering What AWP is Truly About

Beyond the Panels, the Parties, and the Photos

By Marie Myung-Ok Lee | April 20, 2016

Why Where We Write Matters

Why Where We Write Matters

Tanaz Bhathena on Her Understanding of Home,
from Bombay to Bilimora

By Tanaz Bhathena | April 20, 2016

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