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Setting the Tone: How Listening to Music Can Inspire Fiction Writers

Setting the Tone: How Listening to Music Can Inspire Fiction Writers

Liz Riggs Considers the Similarities and Differences Between Song Lyrics and Narrative Prose

By Liz Riggs | July 11, 2024

“Tell It To Me Singing.” On Diaspora, Community and Cuban-American Stories

“Tell It To Me Singing.” On Diaspora, Community and Cuban-American Stories

Tita Ramírez Explores the Ways Popular Idioms Can Resonate Across Generations

By Tita Ramirez | July 11, 2024

A Painful, Urgent Reimagining: Emily van Duyne on Writing a New History of Sylvia Plath’s Last Years

A Painful, Urgent Reimagining: Emily van Duyne on Writing a New History of Sylvia Plath’s Last Years

Sarah Viren in Conversation with the Author of “Loving Sylvia Plath: A Reclamation”

By Sarah Viren | July 10, 2024

On the Many Paths Artists Take to Sustain Their Creative Practice

On the Many Paths Artists Take to Sustain Their Creative Practice

Stacey D'Erasmo Asks, “What Keeps Us Alive In Our Art?”

By Stacey D'Erasmo | July 10, 2024

Write More “Indianly,” or Else: Asha Thanki on the Trap of “Authentic” Writing

Write More “Indianly,” or Else: Asha Thanki on the Trap of “Authentic” Writing

Considering the Publishing Industry's Problematic Ideas About Non-American Writers

By Asha Thanki | July 10, 2024

Jan Carson on Capturing the Failures of Northern Ireland in Fiction

Jan Carson on Capturing the Failures of Northern Ireland in Fiction

The Author of "Quickly, While They Still Have Horses" Reflects on a Country's Disappointing Lack of Progress

By Jan Carson | July 10, 2024

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Christina Sharpe on John Keene’s Counternarratives

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Kevin Barry on Reimagining the Novel: “You Can’t Be Afraid to Go Nuts on the Page”

By Dan Sheehan | July 9, 2024

Why Did Taffy Brodesser-Akner Go to a Psychic to Fix Her Writer's Block?

By Literary Hub | July 9, 2024

A Room of One's Own: In Praise of Seclusion in the Service of Craft

A Room of One's Own: In Praise of Seclusion in the Service of Craft

Ben Shattuck Shares What He Loves Most About His Writing Space

By Ben Shattuck | July 9, 2024

Christine Smallwood on Going Back to the Text

Christine Smallwood on Going Back to the Text

In Conversation with Merve Emre on The Critic and Her Publics

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Emma Copley Eisenberg on the Setting of Her Debut Novel

Emma Copley Eisenberg on the Setting of Her Debut Novel

In Conversation with Lindsay Hunter on I'm a Writer But  

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Mateo Askaripour on the Perks of Genre Agnosticism

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"There’s nothing like throwing the map out the window."

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Finding the Glow Within: What Biology and Fiction Writing Have In Common

Finding the Glow Within: What Biology and Fiction Writing Have In Common

Janie Kim on the Pursuit of Open-Ended Questions in Science and Literature

By Janie Kim | July 8, 2024

Breaking English Open: On Privileging Sound Over Sense

Breaking English Open: On Privileging Sound Over Sense

Moriel Rothman-Zecher Makes the Case Against Italicizing Non-English Words

By Moriel Rothman-Zecher | July 8, 2024

Christian Gullette on Architecture in Verse, Grief’s Layers, and Poems as Liminal Spaces

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