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Whose Mary Is It Anyway? Anne Eekhout on Fictionalizing Mary Shelley

Whose Mary Is It Anyway? Anne Eekhout on Fictionalizing Mary Shelley

"If I do my job well, it will ring true."

By Anne Eekhout | October 5, 2023

The Catharsis of Writing About Sex in Memoir

The Catharsis of Writing About Sex in Memoir

Minda Honey Reflects on Writing The Heartbreak Years

By Minda Honey | October 5, 2023

C Pam Zhang on Food, Wealth, and Pressure

C Pam Zhang on Food, Wealth, and Pressure

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | October 5, 2023

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

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Khaled Hosseini on the 20th Anniversary of The Kite Runner

By Khaled Hosseini | October 3, 2023

Zadie Smith on Radical Work

By Talk Easy | October 3, 2023

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

By Lydia Davis | October 2, 2023

Kayvion Lewis on Writing What Lights Your Fire

Kayvion Lewis on Writing What Lights Your Fire

From the Write-minded Podcast, Hosted by Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner

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Etaf Rum on Exploring Herself Through Her Characters

Etaf Rum on Exploring Herself Through Her Characters

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Shilpi Suneja on Writing After Salman Rushdie

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

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