• Craft and Criticism

    Parenting and Writing

    When an Avowed Helicopter Parent Writes a Novel About Imperiled Children

    By Jonathan Evison  June 18, 2021
    New Books Network

    Andy Weir on the Problem of Interstellar Travel

    By New Books Network  June 18, 2021
    Racism

    On Juneteenth and the Struggle to Commemorate and Make Sense of Protest and Rebellion

    By Jelani Cobb  June 18, 2021
    The Craft of Writing

    Marie-Helene Bertino on Using Humor to Connect with Readers

    By Marie-Helene Bertino  June 18, 2021
    The Common

    Silvia Spring on Living Abroad and Writing in Community

    By The Common  June 18, 2021
    Education

    On the Self-Education of Frederick Douglass, Malcolm X, and the Insatiable Quest for Literacy

    By Brandon P. Fleming  June 18, 2021
    The Internet

    What We’re Getting Wrong About So-Called Internet Literature

    By Shya Scanlon  June 17, 2021
    Teaching

    Lessons in Teaching: When Your Student’s a Better Writer Than You Are

    By Elyssa Friedland  June 17, 2021
    Novelists

    On My Most Embarrassing Literary Encounters (So Far)

    By Matthew Norman  June 17, 2021
    Feminism

    Lessons in Forgiveness and Intergenerational Feminism

    By Veronica Esposito  June 17, 2021
    The Maris Review

    Ashley C. Ford on Keeping in Touch with Her Child Self

    By The Maris Review  June 17, 2021
    Language

    On a Non-Native English Speaker’s Creative Journey to Authenticity

    By Dariel Suarez  June 17, 2021
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Kaitlyn Greenidge, Brandon Hobson, Elissa Washuta, and Dani Putney at the Franklin Park Reading Series

    By The Virtual Book Channel  June 17, 2021
    Book Dreams

    Your Memoir Will Tick Someone Off, But Not for the Reasons You Think

    By Book Dreams  June 17, 2021
    The Quarantine Tapes

    White Fungus Editor Ron Hanson on Trusting the Reader

    By The Quarantine Tapes  June 17, 2021
    Keen On

    Ron Friedman on Reverse Engineering Creative Breakthroughs

    By Keen On  June 17, 2021
    Just the Right Book

    “19-Year-Old Me Could Not Have Written This Book.” Sherry Turkle on Why Some Stories Take Time

    By Just the Right Book   June 17, 2021
    Letters

    Death in the Present Tense: On Martha Gellhorn’s Love Letters to Ernest Hemingway

    By Janet Somerville  June 16, 2021
    Short story writers

    Is Alice Munro’s Lone Novel… Even a Novel?

    By Benjamin Hedin  June 16, 2021
    Self-Publishing

    When You’re Always Going to Be the Second-Most Famous Writer in Your Marriage

    By Neal Allen  June 16, 2021
    Keen On

    Asako Serizawa on the Inheritors of Imperialism and War

    By Keen On  June 16, 2021
    Otherppl

    “It’s Not Something I Would Recommend.” Lana Bastašić on Translating Her Own Book

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  June 16, 2021
    Thresholds

    Patrick Cottrell: How Autofiction Has Taken the Pressure Off Character Transformation

    By Thresholds   June 16, 2021
    Reading Women

    In Praise of Aging Protagonists in Literature

    By Reading Women  June 16, 2021
    Interview

    Joshua Henkin on Eschewing Big Reveals and Knowing Your Characters’ Birthdays

    By Ellen Adams  June 16, 2021
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