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Writing With “Sprezz.” On the Art of Saying Just Enough

Writing With “Sprezz.” On the Art of Saying Just Enough

Magdalena Zyzak Wonders If It’s Possible to Craft Effortlessly Cool Prose

By Magdalena Zyzak | May 7, 2024

A Daughter Becomes a Mother: On Inhabiting Both Roles in Fiction and in Life

A Daughter Becomes a Mother: On Inhabiting Both Roles in Fiction and in Life

Heidi Reimer: “A mother is also a daughter. A daughter may eventually become a mother. Then, forever, she is both."

By Heidi Reimer | May 6, 2024

On Memoir, Permission, and the Thorny Terrain of Writing About Family

On Memoir, Permission, and the Thorny Terrain of Writing About Family

Jane Wong: “My father wrote half of me into being, I suppose. My mother wrote the other half.”

By Jane Wong | May 6, 2024

Steve Almond on the Magic and the Craft of Storytelling

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In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | May 6, 2024

Claire Jiménez on the Hardest Emotion to Write

Claire Jiménez on the Hardest Emotion to Write

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

By Memoir Nation | May 6, 2024

I Don’t Want to Talk to My Coworker About Their Stupid Writing: Am I the Literary Asshole?

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Boel Westin on Tove Jansson

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Rachel Khong on the Power and Potential of Not Knowing

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Closing the Literary Circle: Marc Berley on Editing the Work of Gordon Lish

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"No one, I learned, appreciates the care and effort of an editor more than Lish."

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Elwin Cotman on Creating New Forms

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Nell Irvin Painter on Writing About Anything (and Everything)

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How Music and Verse Can Spark Literary Passion in Reluctant Readers

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By Alicia D. Williams | April 24, 2024

When Writing Your Novel (Maybe) Manifests Your Breakup

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