Why Are There So Few Books About Mothers and Sons?

Why Are There So Few Books About Mothers and Sons?

Sam Sussman on Writing a Book About His Mother

By Sam Sussman | September 16, 2025

Angela Flournoy on Writing a Polyphonic Novel of Black Female Friendship

Angela Flournoy on Writing a Polyphonic Novel of Black Female Friendship

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of “The Wilderness”

By Jane Ciabattari | September 16, 2025

Finding Inspiration (and Joy) While Drafting Among the Fjords

Finding Inspiration (and Joy) While Drafting Among the Fjords

David Greig on His Creative Process Aboard a Nordic Cruise

By David Greig | September 15, 2025

Pain as Progress: On Bodybuilding, Poetry and Transformation

Pain as Progress: On Bodybuilding, Poetry and Transformation

“Rupture is a prerequisite for reparation. Hurting couldn’t be avoided. Hurting was the point.”

By Isabella DeSendi | September 15, 2025

Roxane Gay on Memoir as Manifesto

Roxane Gay on Memoir as Manifesto

From the Memoir Nation Podcast, Hosted by Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner

By Memoir Nation | September 15, 2025

Nini Berendt and Evanthia Bromiley on Debut Discovery

Nini Berendt and Evanthia Bromiley on Debut Discovery

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

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Natalie Diaz: Seeing is Feeling in Mary Oliver’s Poetry

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Why Everyone—Yes, Everyone—Should Join a Book Club

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Spells, Skepticism, and Surrender: What Happens When the Agent Becomes the Author

Spells, Skepticism, and Surrender: What Happens When the Agent Becomes the Author

Samantha Browning Shea on Breaking Her Own Rules

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Connecting the Dots: On Creating Fiction from Facts

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Beth Kephart Considers the Craft of Bringing a Fiction Writer’s Eye to Real Lives

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Anne Enright on J.G. Farrell's <em>Troubles</em>

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By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast | September 10, 2025

The Case for Polyamory: Alejandro Varela on Writing a Novel That Questions Everything

The Case for Polyamory: Alejandro Varela on Writing a Novel That Questions Everything

“Once society’s fallibility becomes apparent, everything else comes into question.”

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Returning to the World of <em>Chocolat</em>, 25 Years Later

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Joanne Harris on Writing a Sequel to Her Most Celebrated Novel

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