• Craft and Advice

    The Maris Review

    Myriam Gurba on Writing the Visceral

    By The Maris Review  September 7, 2023
    Money Matters

    “Tolstoy did not neglect to describe the outhouses”: Yiyun Li on the Material Concerns of Characters and Writers

    By Yiyun Li  September 6, 2023
    Diaries

    A Fearless, Free, Literary Space: On Writers’ Diaries

    By Isabella Trimboli  September 6, 2023
    Lyric Essays

    Beyond the True-False Binary: How the Internet Helped Transform the Lyric Essay

    By Hugh Ryan  September 6, 2023
    Tor Presents: Voyage Into Genre

    How to Live in Nature: S.L. Coney, Ruthanna Emrys, and Alexis Pauline Gumbs

    By Tor Presents: Voyage Into Genre   September 6, 2023
    Talk Easy

    Richard Powers on How to Reconnect with Earth

    By Talk Easy  September 6, 2023
    In Conversation

    “Code words to say what can’t be said”: James Hannaham Talks to a Writer in Solitary Confinement

    By Moira Marquis  September 5, 2023
    Rare Books

    The Beauty of Physical Encounters with Rare Books

    By Kathleen B. Jones  September 5, 2023
    First Draft

    David van den Berg on Seeing the Darkness

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   September 5, 2023
    Write-minded

    Lisa Leshne Offers Agent Insights

    By Write-minded   September 5, 2023
    The Craft of Writing

    Alicia Kennedy on Navigating the Thorny Terrain of Food Writing

    By Alicia Kennedy  September 1, 2023
    Reading List

    A Reading List of Realistic Portraits of Mothers and Daughters in Literature

    By Jill Talbot  September 1, 2023
    Mother-Writers

    What Does It Mean to Write after Having Children?

    By Lightsey Darst  August 31, 2023
    The Maris Review

    Hilary Leichter on Time and Re-Reading

    By The Maris Review  August 31, 2023
    Unlikable Women

    Why the Rise of Morally Gray Women In Fiction Is Good For All of Us

    By Megan Barnard  August 30, 2023
    Speculative fiction

    Apocalypse Now: Why It’s Cathartic To Read About the End of the World

    By Yume Kitasei  August 30, 2023
    Gardening

    The Real-Life Poetry of Gardening

    By Tess Taylor  August 29, 2023
    Storytelling

    Megan Kamalei Kakimoto On The Many Ways To Tell a Hawaiian Story

    By Megan Kamalei Kakimoto  August 29, 2023
    Talk Easy

    Anne Lamott on Starting Where You Are

    By Talk Easy  August 29, 2023
    I'm a Writer But

    Daniel Hornsby on the Charisma of a First-Person Narrator

    By I'm a Writer But   August 29, 2023
    Write-minded

    Rebecca Carroll and Jeannine Ouellette on the Art of Memoir

    By Write-minded   August 28, 2023
    The History of Literature

    Patrick Whitmarsh on Fiction’s Response to Existential Crises

    By History of Literature  August 28, 2023
    The Craft of Writing

    Yves Jeffcoat on the Slow Work of Writing That Centers Identity

    By Yves Jeffcoat  August 25, 2023
    The Maris Review

    Jenn Shapland on Santa Fe and Fear of Cities

    By The Maris Review  August 24, 2023
    Reading Habits

    On the Bad Binary of “Good” and “Bad” Literature

    By Josh Cook  August 23, 2023
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