• Craft and Criticism

    Keen On

    Should We Celebrate Or Be Suspicious of Self-Help Books Promise to Unlock Our “Dream Life”?

    By Keen On  August 3, 2022
    Keen On

    Why America’s Greatest Strength Is Its Entrepreneurial Edge and How This Might Even Fix the Crisis of the Environment, Inequality, and Healthcare

    By Keen On  August 3, 2022
    new books tuesday

    21 new books to take home and love today.

    By Katie Yee  August 2, 2022
    Motherhood

    Michelle Tea on Undertaking the Wild Art Project of Motherhood

    By Michelle Tea  August 2, 2022
    Bugs

    “I have drunk, and seen the spider.” On Swallowing Bugs in Fiction

    By Daisy Hildyard  August 2, 2022
    I'm a Writer But

    Sandra Newman on Writing Novels As a Way to Represent the World

    By I'm a Writer But   August 2, 2022
    War Reporting

    After Combat, Writing the Horrific Stories of War

    By Bill Glose  August 2, 2022
    Keen On

    Good News on the Climate Front: Why Things Aren’t Quite as Apocalyptic as Some Believe

    By Keen On  August 2, 2022
    End Times

    Anxiety and Responsibility: What Stories Can Come From Our Current Moment?

    By Clare Pollard  August 2, 2022
    Writers in Conversation

    Marianne Wiggins on Completing a Novel After Suffering a Stroke and Finding Inspiration In California’s Dry Terrain

    By Jane Ciabattari  August 2, 2022
    Keen On

    Africa As Las Vegas: Why Some Countries Win and Others Lose in Gambling on Development

    By Keen On  August 2, 2022
    Reading Lists

    AudioFile’s Best
    Audiobooks of July

    By Book Marks  August 2, 2022
    So Many Damn Books

    In Praise of Survival Literature

    By So Many Damn Books  August 2, 2022
    Keen On

    Can Tech Entrepreneurs Win the Start-Up Game Without Selling Out Morally?

    By Keen On  August 2, 2022
    On Writing

    The Pain-Writing-Money Trifecta: On Nora Ephron and Grief as Copy

    By Ella Risbridger  August 1, 2022
    Obsessions

    A Gathering of Stones: Aimee Bender on the Earth’s Best Secret-Keepers

    By Aimee Bender  August 1, 2022
    Advice

    Mary Ruefle on Bringing Joy to Your Writing Practice

    By Mary Ruefle  August 1, 2022
    Ursa

    Deesha Philyaw and Dawnie Walton on the Business of Publishing

    By Ursa   August 1, 2022
    On Translation

    Breaking Down the Translation Pyramid: On Translating Dhumketu’s Pioneering Short Stories from Gujarati

    By Jenny Bhatt  August 1, 2022
    Write-minded

    Writing Intimate Truths and Why Memoir Is a Force That’s Changing the Culture

    By Memoir Nation   August 1, 2022
    Psychotherapy

    To Write Fiction with a Psychotherapist’s Mind

    By Lisa Williamson Rosenberg  August 1, 2022
    First Draft

    Charles Baxter on the Many Parts of the Writer’s Mind

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   August 1, 2022
    The History of Literature

    What Can Edward Gibbon Still Teach Us Today?

    By History of Literature  August 1, 2022
    Keen On

    A Message From a Deep Futurist: We Need Humans to Fix Things

    By Keen On  August 1, 2022
    Ukraine

    I Once Wrote—and Spoke, and Thought—in Russian… No More

    By Volodymyr Rafeenko  July 29, 2022
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