• Craft and Criticism

    Literary History

    Writer on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown: The Time Philip Roth Lied to Me

    By Barbara Shulgasser-Parker  April 7, 2022
    The Maris Review

    Chloé Cooper Jones on Self-Erasure, Vulnerability, and Writing About Tennis as a Dodge

    By The Maris Review  April 7, 2022
    The Writing Life

    How Watching Men’s Figure Skating Helped Me Fall Back in Love with Writing

    By Jenny Tinghui Zhang  April 7, 2022
    Creativity

    Is There an Inherent Connection Between Sadness and Art-Making?

    By Susan Cain  April 7, 2022
    True Crime

    How Acting in True Crime Shows Allowed Me to Write the Story of My Stepsister’s Murder

    By Rachel Rear  April 7, 2022
    Teaching

    The Power and Necessity of Learning from Books That Reflect Our Communities

    By Luma Mufleh  April 7, 2022
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Roger Reeves and A. Van Jordan on the Evolving Vitality of Verse

    By The Virtual Book Channel  April 7, 2022
    Book Dreams

    Celebrating 100 Episodes of Book Dreams with Book Recs from Past Guests

    By Book Dreams  April 7, 2022
    Just the Right Book

    Barry Nalebuff: Don’t Fight Fire With Fire; Fight Fire With Water

    By Just the Right Book   April 7, 2022
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  April 7, 2022
    Change Lab

    Artist Kim Schoenstadt on Finding Redemption Through Creativity and Kinship

    By Change Lab  April 7, 2022
    The Hub

    Scottish university cruelly cancels poor, defenseless, under-read Jane Austen. England panics.

    By Jonny Diamond  April 6, 2022
    Reading Lists

    Toward an Alternative Canon of Trauma Literature: A Reading List

    By Chantal V. Johnson  April 6, 2022
    Children's Literature

    How Shirley Hughes Captured the Everyday Magic of Childhood

    By Ellen O'Connell Whittet  April 6, 2022
    The Cosmic Library

    Welcome to Season 3 of The Cosmic Library

    By The Cosmic Library   April 6, 2022
    Thresholds

    adrienne maree brown on What it Looks Like to Organize with Integrity

    By Thresholds   April 6, 2022
    Mothers

    The Secret Lives of Writers and Mothers

    By Aamina Ahamd  April 6, 2022
    Literary Criticism

    How Writers Can Best Conceptualize Their Work

    By Graeme Simsion  April 6, 2022
    craft advice

    Being Funny Doesn’t Mean You Can’t Be a Serious Writer

    By Gina Sorell  April 6, 2022
    Otherppl

    Anakana Schofield Has Discovered Professional Basketball, and She Has Thoughts

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  April 6, 2022
    Book Marks Questionnaire

    Morgan Jerkins on Leo Tolstoy, Pachinko, and the sex scene in Sula

    By Book Marks  April 6, 2022
    Language

    An Ode to the French Teacher Who Taught Me to Inhabit the Language

    By Grant Ginder  April 5, 2022
    new books tuesday

    16 hotly-anticipated new books coming out this week.

    By Katie Yee  April 5, 2022
    In Conversation

    Chloé Cooper Jones on Writing About Disability and Engaging With Beauty

    By Greg Marshall  April 5, 2022
    Coming of Age

    What Can We Learn From the “Life” of the Little Prince?

    By Stéphane Garnier  April 5, 2022
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