• Craft and Criticism

    Poetry

    On the Glorious Queerness of Metrical Narrative

    By Cat Fitzpatrick  November 15, 2022
    Classics

    Sofia Coppola in Praise of Edith Wharton’s Beloved Antiheroine, Undine Spragg

    By Sofia Coppola  November 15, 2022
    I'm a Writer But

    Elisa Gabbert on the Performance of Self in Poetry (Versus Prose)

    By I'm a Writer But   November 15, 2022
    Writing Process

    Meg Howrey on Speaking for Her Novel’s Protagonist

    By Meg Howrey  November 15, 2022
    Twitterverse

    Stephanie Land on Putting the Pieces of Your Life Together and Finding Your Way

    By Twitterverse   November 15, 2022
    Otherppl

    Rich Ferguson, Mary Kerr, and S.A. Griffin on the Heart of Beat Literature

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  November 15, 2022
    So Many Damn Books

    Kevin Wilson on the Ease of Writing in the 90s and His New Novel, Now is Not the Time to Panic

    By So Many Damn Books  November 15, 2022
    Keen On

    Cary Grant as The Acrobat: A Novel About the Hollywood Comic Star Whose Best Joke Was That He Didn’t Really Exist

    By Keen On  November 14, 2022
    Twitter

    Writers Wrestle with Twitter: Do I Stay or Go (and Where?)

    By Jess deCourcy Hinds  November 14, 2022
    Emergence Magazine

    Finding the Mother Tree: An Interview with Suzanne Simard

    By Emergence Magazine  November 14, 2022
    Relationships

    Remembering Kenward Elmslie and Lucia Berlin through Their Postcards to Each Other

    By Chip Livingston  November 14, 2022
    Language

    Oh, the Ironies: How Irony Got Its (Second) Meaning

    By Ben Yagoda  November 14, 2022
    Poetry

    Su Cho on Beginning Her Poetic Journey

    By Su Cho  November 14, 2022
    Write-minded

    David Yoon on Writing Racial Dynamics in YA Fiction

    By Write-minded   November 14, 2022
    University Presses

    This Year’s University Press Week Highlights Work on Race, Religion, War, and More

    By Literary Hub  November 14, 2022
    Writer's block

    Healing, Then Writing: Confronting Writer’s Block in the Early Years of Sobriety

    By Matthew Quick  November 14, 2022
    Keen On

    Super Unhero: Vladimir Putin, the Accidental Czar, Imagined Graphically

    By Keen On  November 14, 2022
    First Draft

    Ross Gay: “It’s Never Been the Institutions, It’s Always Been Our Neighbor.”

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   November 14, 2022
    The Sea

    A Brief History of Shipwrecks in Literature

    By Alan G. Jamieson  November 11, 2022
    The Craft of Writing

    Christopher Isherwood on What Writers Can Learn from Theater

    By Christopher Isherwood  November 11, 2022
    Essays

    Alexander Chee on the Perpetual Importance of the Essay

    By Steve Wieberg  November 11, 2022
    Everything Was Beautiful

    How to Celebrate 100 Years of Kurt Vonnegut

    By Literary Hub  November 11, 2022
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    By Book Marks  November 11, 2022
    The Writing Life

    Full Disclosure: Meghan J. Ward on Marriage, Motherhood, and Weighing the Truth in Memoir

    By Meghan J. Ward  November 11, 2022
    Keen On

    The Lion and the Fox: Two Rival Spies and the Secret Plot to Build a Confederate Army

    By Keen On  November 11, 2022
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