• Craft and Advice

    Big Table

    Jenn Shapland on Confronting Her Own Sexuality to Tell Carson McCullers’ Story

    By Big Table  May 24, 2021
    First Draft

    Anna North on Finding a Narrative Space Between Dystopia and Utopia

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   May 24, 2021
    Writers on Writers

    To Be a Person: Barrett Swanson and Jordan Kisner in Conversation

    By Jordan Kisner  May 21, 2021
    Life in a Pandemic

    When a Year in the Life of Your Last-Chance Debut Novel Coincides with a Global Pandemic

    By Claire Cox  May 21, 2021
    Historical Fiction

    How Writing a Novel Is Like Decrypting a Cipher

    By Rafe Posey  May 21, 2021
    The Craft of Writing

    John McPhee on Wrestling with a First Draft

    By John McPhee  May 21, 2021
    Interview with a Journal

    Interview with a Journal: Apogee

    By Vanessa Willoughby  May 21, 2021
    Storytelling

    A Witness to the Human Experience: Why Medicine Needs Storytellers

    By David Weill, MD  May 20, 2021
    Feminist History

    Mary Wollstonecraft is a Double Taurus, Or: How an Astrologer Helped Unstick My Novel

    By Samantha Silva  May 20, 2021
    The Maris Review

    Elizabeth McCracken on Placing Her Characters in New Settings

    By The Maris Review  May 20, 2021
    Book Dreams

    Laurie Frankel on the Way That Girls Superhero

    By Book Dreams  May 20, 2021
    Thresholds

    C Pam Zhang on the Psychic Idea of Home

    By Thresholds   May 19, 2021
    Pandemics

    Jim Shepard: When Your Novel Veers a Little Too Close to Grim Reality

    By Jim Shepard  May 19, 2021
    The Writing Life

    “I Wanted to Be on Fire.” On the Connection Between Art and Self-Destruction

    By Bridget Collins  May 19, 2021
    Otherppl with Brad Listi

    Courtney Zoffness on the One Characteristic That Writers Share

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  May 19, 2021
    The Hub

    Would you let a random group of strangers on the Internet plot your next novel?

    By Jonny Diamond  May 18, 2021
    In Memoriam

    “All He Wanted From Us Was Truth.” Remembering Stephen Dixon

    By Courtney Zoffness  May 18, 2021
    The Writing Life

    The Agony and the Ecstasy of Publishing Your Work in a Literary Magazine

    By Erica Jenks Henry  May 18, 2021
    The Hub

    Writers, take heart: K-Pop superstars are just like you!

    By Jonny Diamond  May 17, 2021
    Writers on Writers

    Symbiosis and Psychedelics: An Exploratory Conversation Between Edward St. Aubyn and Merlin Sheldrake

    By Merlin Sheldrake and Edward St. Aubyn  May 17, 2021
    First Draft

    Layla AlAmmar: Who Gets to Dictate How a Story Is Told?

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   May 17, 2021
    Love and Romance

    How We Wrote a Joint Memoir Without Sabotaging Our Relationship

    By Meg Bashwiner and Joseph Fink  May 17, 2021
    Horror

    Why Are Creepy Children So Compelling?

    By A. J. Gnuse  May 14, 2021
    The Craft of Writing

    Olivia Laing on Writing the Global Story of Liberation

    By Olivia Laing  May 14, 2021
    The Literary Life

    Cambria Gordon on the Lost Art of Penmanship

    By The Literary Life  May 14, 2021
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