• Craft and Criticism

    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  July 21, 2022
    The Maris Review

    Isaac Fitzgerald on How We Tell Ourselves Stories To Get By

    By The Maris Review  July 21, 2022
    Book Dreams

    Vauhini Vara: How Fiction Helps Us Understand the Path We’re on Now

    By Book Dreams  July 21, 2022
    Midlife

    Finding Your True Self in Middle Age: Ten Midlife Coming-of-Age Novels

    By Sarah McCraw Crow  July 21, 2022
    Speculative fiction

    On Finding the Strangeness in the Mundane, and Vice Versa

    By Alanna Schubach  July 21, 2022
    Adaptations

    How a Lord of the Rings and Dungeons & Dragons Crossover Almost Happened

    By Ben Riggs  July 20, 2022
    Historical Fiction

    The Challenges of Writing Fiction About the “Darkest Corner of the Dark Ages”

    By Rebecca Stott  July 20, 2022
    On Translation

    What Only Musicians and Translators Know

    By Jessica Sequeira  July 20, 2022
    Hollywood

    Bad Hollywood: A Reading List to Understand Harvey Weinstein’s Twisted World

    By Ken Auletta  July 20, 2022
    Video Games

    How Final Fantasy VII Taught Me to Write

    By Jamil Jan Kochai  July 20, 2022
    On Whiteness

    Writing a Book About My Whiteness Forced Me to Confront My Own Lies

    By Baynard Woods  July 20, 2022
    Thresholds

    Crystal Hana Kim on Never Knowing the Full Story of People We Love

    By Thresholds   July 20, 2022
    Otherppl

    David Koepp on Writing Mission Impossible and Balancing Research and Fiction

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  July 20, 2022
    Fan Culture

    Fandom as Methodology: On Fan-Nonfiction and Finding the Joy of Mutual Delusion

    By Elvia Wilk  July 19, 2022
    American Classics

    “A Book About Thirst.” In Praise of Josephine Johnson’s 1934 Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novel

    By Ash Davidson  July 19, 2022
    I'm a Writer But

    Justin Taylor on Pursuing “Imaginative Empathy” in Memoir

    By I'm a Writer But   July 19, 2022
    18th Century Literature

    How Literature Influenced Adolescent Ideas About Love in the 18th Century

    By John Wood Sweet  July 19, 2022
    Monsters

    Bad Seeds and Mad Scientists: On the Build-A-Humans of 19th-Century Literature

    By Silvia Moreno-Garcia  July 19, 2022
    Los Angeles

    Liska Jacobs on Leaving Los Angeles, City of “Impermanence and Unreliability”

    By Liska Jacobs  July 19, 2022
    Children's Lit

    My Journey to Writing Children’s Books Began with a Colicky Baby

    By Christina Geist  July 19, 2022
    So Many Damn Books

    Angela Ledgerwood on the Psychic Relief of Reading

    By So Many Damn Books  July 19, 2022
    new books tuesday

    16 new books to pick up today.

    By Katie Yee  July 19, 2022
    The Hub

    The comic strip that every artist needs to read.

    By Emily Temple  July 18, 2022
    Fatherhood

    A Great Man Is Hard to Find: On the Literature of Contemporary Fatherhood

    By Janet Manley  July 18, 2022
    The Writing Life

    “I Did Not Get Anywhere Until I Became a True Literary Citizen.” Courtney Maum on Making a Writing Career

    By Mira Ptacin  July 18, 2022
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