• Craft and Criticism

    Aging

    The Ironic Twist of Age: What It’s Like to Keep Writing at 91

    By Hilma Wolitzer  December 2, 2021
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Diane Exavier, Angel Nafis, Shayla Lawz, and Carols Sirah Offer Poetry and Performance

    By The Virtual Book Channel  December 2, 2021
    Otherppl

    Jocelyn Nicole Johnson on the Ways We Replicate Thomas Jefferson’s Sins

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  December 2, 2021
    The Maris Review

    Rebecca Donner on Writing History in the Present Tense

    By The Maris Review  December 2, 2021
    Reading Women

    Kyle Lucia Wu on the Gray Areas and Confusion of Microaggressions

    By Reading Women  December 2, 2021
    Interview with an Indie Press

    Interview with an Indie Press: Sarabande Books

    By Corinne Segal  December 2, 2021
    Book Dreams

    Sunjeev Sahota on Class and Belonging, in His Childhood and His Son’s

    By Book Dreams  December 2, 2021
    Reality TV

    How Watching British Reality TV Helped Me Finish My Novel

    By Kirthana Ramisetti  December 1, 2021
    Archives

    On the Little-Known Archives Keeping Civil Rights Activists’ Stories Alive

    By Suzanne Cope  December 1, 2021
    Astrology or Whatever

    The Astrology Book Club: What to Read This Month, Based on Your Sign

    By Emily Temple  December 1, 2021
    Children's Literature

    The Best Children’s Books in Our Long Year of Pandemic Reading

    By Sara B. Franklin  December 1, 2021
    Creativity

    Shocked Into Dreaming: Why Puppets Inspire My Creativity and Spark My Curiosity

    By Elizabeth Weiss  December 1, 2021
    Poetry

    “Creating Lines in Response.” An Interview with Poet Tongo Eisen-Martin

    By Peter Mishler  December 1, 2021
    Thresholds

    “This Is Where My Soul Is.’ James Han Mattson on Writing About Race and Fractured Identities

    By Thresholds   December 1, 2021
    Book Marks Questionnaire

    Mikhal Dekel on Anna Karenina, Dubliners, and A Room of One’s Own

    By Book Marks  December 1, 2021
    Historical Fiction

    Meg Waite Clayton on Finding New Ways to Tell Old Stories

    By Jane Ciabattari  December 1, 2021
    The Writing Life

    From Construction to Teaching: Seven Writers On Their Day Jobs

    By Emily Alexander  November 30, 2021
    Classic Reviews

    “A Piece of Careless Hackwork.” Read the First Reviews of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

    By Book Marks  November 30, 2021
    Free Speech

    Why Writers Shouldn’t Wait for Permission to Create the Stories They Want

    By James Hannaham  November 30, 2021
    Gifts

    44 Writers on Their Favorite Books to Give as Presents

    By Book Marks  November 30, 2021
    Literary History

    The Italian Electrical Scientist Who (May Have) Inspired Frankenstein

    By Timothy J. Jorgensen  November 30, 2021
    new books tuesday

    12 new books hitting shelves this week.

    By Katie Yee  November 30, 2021
    The Cosmic Library

    Why Do Some Stories Survive the Test of Time?

    By The Cosmic Library   November 30, 2021
    First Draft

    EJ Levy on the Complicated Life of James Miranda Barry

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   November 30, 2021
    Authors in the Tent

    Shelley Blanton-Stroud On the Different Ways We Mythologize the Past

    By The Virtual Book Channel  November 30, 2021
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