Writing on Prepaid Time: Shannon Sanders on Balancing Parenthood and Publishing

Writing on Prepaid Time: Shannon Sanders on Balancing Parenthood and Publishing

"What I wanted, ultimately, wasn’t permission to write instead of parenting; it was to enter a fantasy world where there was time enough for both."

By Shannon Sanders | October 4, 2023

On the Difficulty of Narrating the Audiobook for Your Own Memoir

On the Difficulty of Narrating the Audiobook for Your Own Memoir

Freda Love Smith Admits, "It's Kind of Hard to Read"

By Freda Love Smith | October 4, 2023

No Place Like London: V.E. Schwab, Lina Rather, and Oliver Darkshire

No Place Like London: V.E. Schwab, Lina Rather, and Oliver Darkshire

Tor Presents: Voyage Into Genre S03E05

By Tor Presents: Voyage into Genre | October 4, 2023

Khaled Hosseini on the 20th Anniversary of <em>The Kite Runner</em>

Khaled Hosseini on the 20th Anniversary of The Kite Runner

The Author Reflects on an Unlikely Path to Publication

By Khaled Hosseini | October 3, 2023

Zadie Smith on Radical Work

Zadie Smith on Radical Work

This Week on the Talk Easy Podcast with Sam Fragoso

By Talk Easy | October 3, 2023

If Lydia Davis Wasn't a Writer, She’d Devote Herself to Climate Activism

If Lydia Davis Wasn't a Writer, She’d Devote Herself to Climate Activism

(As If We Didn't Love Her Enough Already)

By Lydia Davis | October 2, 2023

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Kayvion Lewis on Writing What Lights Your Fire

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Etaf Rum on Exploring Herself Through Her Characters

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Shilpi Suneja on Writing After Salman Rushdie

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Why Online Dating Spells the End of the Meet Cute

Why Online Dating Spells the End of the Meet Cute

Lauren Forsythe on Romance Fiction and Why We Tend to Transform Love into Narratives

By Lauren Forsythe | September 29, 2023

Isle McElroy on the Art of the Sex Scene

Isle McElroy on the Art of the Sex Scene

"Desire is always silly, and self-serious, and enormous, and and and and and and."

By Isle McElroy | September 29, 2023

You Too? Kim DeRose on Telling and Retelling Stories of Sexual Assault

You Too? Kim DeRose on Telling and Retelling Stories of Sexual Assault

"When we craft stories, we don’t necessarily write ourselves; sometimes we write the characters and stories we need to see."

By Kim DeRose | September 28, 2023

Aparna Nancherla on Writing as a Procrastinator

Aparna Nancherla on Writing as a Procrastinator

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | September 28, 2023

The Rules of the Game: How Genre Can Illuminate Theme

The Rules of the Game: How Genre Can Illuminate Theme

Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu on Crafting and Subverting Colonial and Postcolonial Narratives

By Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu | September 27, 2023

The Diving Suit and the Bathtub, or: How a Single Image Sparked a Whole Novel

The Diving Suit and the Bathtub, or: How a Single Image Sparked a Whole Novel

Steve Stern on the Haphazard Affair of Writing a Book

By Steve Stern | September 27, 2023

Hermione Lee on Mavis Gallant,

Hermione Lee on Mavis Gallant, "Unerring Stylist"

"A writer for whom nothing is alien and everything is possible"

By Hermione Lee | September 26, 2023

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