Matthew Cheney on Literary Misdirection and Hiding Truth in Fiction

Matthew Cheney on Literary Misdirection and Hiding Truth in Fiction

Jeff VanderMeer Speaks With the Author of The Last Vanishing Man and Other Stories

By Jeff VanderMeer | May 8, 2023

On Anne Frank, Oskar Schindler, and Writing a Documentary Novel

On Anne Frank, Oskar Schindler, and Writing a Documentary Novel

Buzzy Jackson Recounts the Road to Writing About Hannie Schaft

By Buzzy Jackson | May 8, 2023

Passing Through Porous Boundaries: Mai Nardone on Navigating Thai and American Culture

Passing Through Porous Boundaries: Mai Nardone on Navigating Thai and American Culture

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | May 8, 2023

How the Bestseller Lists Work

How the Bestseller Lists Work

Carly Watters in Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | May 5, 2023

Leah Johnson on Why It’s More Important For Kids to Save Themselves Than to Save the World

Leah Johnson on Why It’s More Important For Kids to Save Themselves Than to Save the World

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | May 5, 2023

Abraham Verghese: To Plot or Not to Plot

Abraham Verghese: To Plot or Not to Plot

“Despite my carefully thought-out blueprint, the story kept taking new directions.”

By Abraham Verghese | May 5, 2023

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What I Learned Revising My First Novel After Publication

By Lisa Harding | May 5, 2023

Gareth L. Powell on AI in Fiction and Our Precarious Position With AI Development Today

By New Books Network | May 5, 2023

Being on the Reader’s Side: Jaime Green on Writing a Book About Science (with an MFA)

By The Maris Review | May 4, 2023

B.J. Best, Andrew Ervin, and Brittney Morris on Video Games, Storytelling, and the Importance of Play

B.J. Best, Andrew Ervin, and Brittney Morris on Video Games, Storytelling, and the Importance of Play

B.J. Best, Andrew Ervin, and Brittney Morris in Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | May 4, 2023

Failure, Patience, and Joy: Tania James on What It Means to Be a Writer

Failure, Patience, and Joy: Tania James on What It Means to Be a Writer

From James’s 2023 Speech at the One Story Debutante Ball

By Tania James | May 4, 2023

Alice Oseman on Asexuality, Authentic Storytelling and Book Banning

Alice Oseman on Asexuality, Authentic Storytelling and Book Banning

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | May 4, 2023

“Happy Accidents.” Shelley Noble on Stumbling Into a Story

“Happy Accidents.” Shelley Noble on Stumbling Into a Story

“Different than inspiration; quirky, shocking, sometimes clunky, they intercede rather than inspire.”

By Shelley Noble | May 4, 2023

Aaron Hamburger on Trying to Solve a Family Mystery Through Fiction

Aaron Hamburger on Trying to Solve a Family Mystery Through Fiction

“Writing my novel was a way to connect to this younger version of my grandmother.”

By Aaron Hamburger | May 4, 2023

On Kind of Telling the Truth: Why Hannah Pittard Switched to Memoir

On Kind of Telling the Truth: Why Hannah Pittard Switched to Memoir

In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | May 4, 2023

Camille T. Dungy: Against the Isolated Nature Writer

Camille T. Dungy: Against the Isolated Nature Writer

Lauren LeBlanc Speaks With the Author of Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden

By Lauren LeBlanc | May 3, 2023

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