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If Doctors Make the Worst Patients, Do Editors Make the Worst Authors?

If Doctors Make the Worst Patients, Do Editors Make the Worst Authors?

Jenny Jackson, Editor-Turned-Debut-Author, Fears So

By Jenny Jackson | March 8, 2023

Meet the Five PEN/Faulkner Finalists of 2023

Meet the Five PEN/Faulkner Finalists of 2023

Interviews with Jonathan Escoffery, Kathryn Harlan, Dionne Irving, Yiyun Li, and Laura Warrell

By Martha Anne Toll | March 8, 2023

The one where Margaret Atwood gave a cracking <em>WIRED</em> interview.

The one where Margaret Atwood gave a cracking WIRED interview.

By Janet Manley | March 7, 2023

Idra Novey on Characters Who Hear and Mishear Each Other

Idra Novey on Characters Who Hear and Mishear Each Other

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of Take What You Need

By Jane Ciabattari | March 7, 2023

Erasing Metaphors in the Quest to Fit In

Erasing Metaphors in the Quest to Fit In

Dina Nayeri on the Metaphors of Belief and Belonging

By Dina Nayeri | March 7, 2023

Encounters with a Mad King: Jac Jemc on Finding a Story While Lost in Research

Encounters with a Mad King: Jac Jemc on Finding a Story While Lost in Research

“I needed to know everything so I could carefully carve out the something I wanted the book to be about.”

By Jac Jemc | March 7, 2023

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Lydia Conklin on Letting Their Personality Into Their Work

By I'm a Writer But | March 7, 2023

Countries Real and Imagined: Chris McCormick on Creating His Own Armenia

By Chris McCormick | March 6, 2023

“The Excitement of Influence.” Read Stories by Katherine Mansfield and Christine Schutt

By NOON senior editors Rachel Chait, Zach Davidson, Madelaine Lucas, Liza St. James | March 6, 2023

​​José Olivarez on Translation and Transformation in Poetry

​​José Olivarez on Translation and Transformation in Poetry

On His New Collection Promises of Gold

By Literary Hub | March 6, 2023

What It’s Like To Write About the Same Characters For Over a Decade

What It’s Like To Write About the Same Characters For Over a Decade

Rachel Joyce on Worldbuilding Across a Trilogy and Finally Letting Go

By Rachel Joyce | March 6, 2023

How a Middle School Piano Lesson Helped Me Write My Book

How a Middle School Piano Lesson Helped Me Write My Book

Ilyon Woo on Frederic Chopin’s Fantasie Impromptu and Lessons of the Past

By Ilyon Woo | March 6, 2023

What If? Lidia Yuknavitch on Her Philosophy of Teaching

What If? Lidia Yuknavitch on Her Philosophy of Teaching

“What is a writer in these times? How do we share the space of writing and making art?”

By Lidia Yuknavitch | March 3, 2023

Andrea Dunlop on Why Today is Such a Rage-Inducing Moment to Be a Woman

Andrea Dunlop on Why Today is Such a Rage-Inducing Moment to Be a Woman

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | March 3, 2023

Corie Adjmi on Her Guilt at Writing About “Flawed” Jewish Characters

Corie Adjmi on Her Guilt at Writing About “Flawed” Jewish Characters

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

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Stephen Marche on the Truth About Writerly Perseverance

Stephen Marche on the Truth About Writerly Perseverance

“The sources of writerly perseverance are mostly silly.”

By Stephen Marche | March 3, 2023

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