• Craft and Criticism

    Experimental Fiction

    Renaissance of the Weird: Experimental Fiction as the New American Normal

    By John Domini  July 25, 2022
    First Draft

    Lidia Yuknavitch is Embarking on a New Form of Storytelling

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   July 25, 2022
    The History of Literature

    On Matsuo Bashō, Haiku’s Greatest Master

    By History of Literature  July 25, 2022
    Big Table

    José Vadi on Living through Gentrification in Twenty-First Century California

    By Big Table  July 25, 2022
    Write-minded

    The Collaborative Force of Anthologies

    By Write-minded   July 25, 2022
    Puerto Rico

    Return to San Sebastian: Novel Research As Road Trip in Puerto Rico

    By Leah Franqui  July 25, 2022
    Reading Lists

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

    By Book Marks  July 22, 2022
    Flash Fiction

    Micro, Sudden, Flash, Short-Shorts: A Brief Survey of Even Briefer Fiction

    By Gary Lippman  July 22, 2022
    Love

    L-O-V-E: A Reading List For Lovers, Love-Seekers and the Loved

    By Zibby Owens  July 22, 2022
    The Literary Life

    Blitz Bazawule on Why Crop Rotation is the Perfect Metaphor For the Creative Mind

    By The Literary Life  July 22, 2022
    Literary Disco

    With Violence All Around Us, What Does It Actually Mean For a Book To Be a Crime Novel?

    By Literary Disco  July 22, 2022
    Behind the Mic

    In Conversation with Adjoa Andoh, Golden Voice Narrator

    By Behind the Mic   July 22, 2022
    Micro

    Putting the Macro in Micro: Abby Manzella on World-Building in Microfiction

    By Micro   July 22, 2022
    The Craft of Writing

    Verlyn Klinkenborg on Writing More Clearly

    By Verlyn Klinkenborg  July 22, 2022
    New Books Network

    Mimicking Odysseus’ Journey on Chicago’s Metra Train

    By New Books Network  July 22, 2022
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    The Politics of Craft: Charles Baxter on How His Essays on Writing Respond to a Changing World

    By Fiction Non Fiction  July 21, 2022
    Directors

    8 Women Directors from Around the World You Should Be Watching

    By David Jenkins  July 21, 2022
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: CJ Hauser on Finding Joy in the Not-Knowing

    By The Virtual Book Channel  July 21, 2022
    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
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