• Craft and Criticism

    The Virtual Book Channel

    What Does the Plight of Boston’s Black Workers in the Civil War Era Tell Us About Contemporary American Struggles?

    By Keen On  January 10, 2023
    I'm a Writer But

    Christine Sneed on Leaning Into the Absurdity of Office Life

    By I'm a Writer But   January 10, 2023
    Keen On

    Can a 21st-Century Adaptation of Dale Carnegie’s 20th-Century Ideology Can Help Us Fix Our Future?

    By Keen On  January 10, 2023
    The Hub

    20 new books to read right now.

    By Katie Yee  January 10, 2023
    Songwriting

    George Saunders on His First Love: Songwriting

    By Mike Errico  January 9, 2023
    Romance

    Unguilty Pleasures: My Year of Reading Romance Novels

    By Katie Fustich  January 9, 2023
    Poets

    That’s Not Typing, It’s Writing: How T. S. Eliot Wrote “The Waste Land”

    By Matthew Hollis  January 9, 2023
    Shelf Talkers

    Shelf Talkers: What the Booksellers Are Reading at Point Reyes Books

    By Literary Hub  January 9, 2023
    On Poetry

    Peter Cole on Making the Poetic Abstract Concrete

    By Literary Hub  January 9, 2023
    First Draft

    “The Best Story I’ve Ever Written is the One I’m Going to Write Next.” Jack Driscoll on His Stylistic Expansion

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   January 9, 2023
    Biography

    Nothing is Real: Craig Brown on the Slippery Art of Biography

    By Craig Brown  January 8, 2023
    What to Watch

    In Women Talking, Acts of Imagination Are Acts of Resistance

    By Michelle Nijhuis  January 6, 2023
    Labor

    The Original Pinocchio Is a Radical Anti-Work Story

    By Alessandro Delfanti  January 6, 2023
    Diaries

    The Sanctity of a Journal: On Private Writing in the Age of Public Content

    By Rachel Schwartzmann  January 6, 2023
    Keen On

    Why Travel Writing is a Form of Memoir and How Covid Has Changed How We See the World

    By Keen On  January 6, 2023
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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

    By Book Marks  January 6, 2023
    Fascism

    We Can’t Do It: How Women’s Contributions to Fighting Fascism Were Forgotten

    By Natasha Lester  January 6, 2023
    The Craft of Writing

    Gerald Stern on the Accidental Beginnings of Poems

    By Gerald Stern  January 6, 2023
    Keen On

    Why 2023 Probably Won’t Bring an End to the War in Ukraine

    By Keen On  January 6, 2023
    New Books Network

    Annalee Newitz on Writing Stories That Reveal a Pathway Out of Dark Times

    By New Books Network  January 6, 2023
    Keen On

    Midnight in America? Why the Coming Crisis in the Republic Offers Hope For a Better Future

    By Keen On  January 6, 2023
    Criticism

    On War, Fatherhood, and the Half-Life of Cormac McCarthy’s Literary Fission

    By Will Cathcart  January 5, 2023
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  January 5, 2023
    The Maris Review

    Kashana Cauley on How the Black Panthers Inspired Our Modern Gun Control Movement

    By The Maris Review  January 5, 2023
    Life Advice for Book Lovers

    Life Advice for Book Lovers: “My husband is really not into reading books.”

    By Dorothea   January 5, 2023
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