• Craft and Criticism

    Grief

    My Year of Mourning: Mapping the Full Cycle of the Loss of My Father

    By Merissa Nathan Gerson  August 23, 2021
    Novelists

    Meet Granta’s Next Generation of Important Spanish Novelists

    By Tobias Carroll  August 23, 2021
    Inspiration

    The Sound of Muses: On Literary Comebacks and the Importance of Listening with Purpose

    By Louis Edwards  August 23, 2021
    First Draft

    Edward Hirsch on the Poet’s Celebration of Grief

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   August 23, 2021
    Experimental Fiction

    How David Foster Wallace Used Compromise Aesthetics to Sell Infinite Jest

    By Rachel Greenwald Smith  August 20, 2021
    Interview with an Indie Press

    Interview with an Indie Press: Nightboat Books

    By Corinne Segal  August 20, 2021
    Fathers and Sons

    When the Dismissive Editor in Your Head Is Your Father

    By Jonathan Wells  August 20, 2021
    The Maris Review

    Megan Abbott on the Dark Underworld of Ballet

    By The Maris Review  August 19, 2021
    Book Dreams

    How to Read Any Book as a Sacred Text

    By Book Dreams  August 19, 2021
    Otherppl

    Sam Cohen on Creating a Conceit of Sarahs

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  August 19, 2021
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Nimmi Gowrinathan in Conversation with John Freeman

    By The Virtual Book Channel  August 19, 2021
    Criticism

    In Praise of the Realistic Hope of Jonathan Franzen’s Endings

    By Jessie Gaynor  August 18, 2021
    The Craft of Writing

    What Makes a Great First Sentence?

    By Alice McDermott  August 18, 2021
    Identity

    On Romanizing Korean Names and Writing Immigrant Stories in an Acquired Language

    By Yoon Choi  August 18, 2021
    Author Photos

    On Learning to Take Author Photos Remotely During the Pandemic

    By Beowulf Sheehan  August 18, 2021
    Thresholds

    Deesha Philyaw on Leaving a Marriage While Writing a Short Story Collection

    By Thresholds   August 18, 2021
    5 Books You May Have Missed

    When You’re Craving Oddities: 5 Books You May Have
    Missed in July

    By Bethanne Patrick  August 18, 2021
    NewberyTart

    On Robin McKinley’s Fantasies and the Books That Are “Just Yours”

    By NewberyTart   August 18, 2021
    Criticism

    Grendel at 50: How John Gardner’s Finest Novel Undermines His Ideas About Moral Fiction

    By Andrew DeYoung  August 17, 2021
    Inspiration

    My Shadow Book: On Consciously—or Unconsciously—Immortalizing Ex-Partners in Literary Fiction

    By Andrew Palmer  August 17, 2021
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Tod Goldberg on Being Ruled By Your Own Game

    By The Virtual Book Channel  August 17, 2021
    Fan Culture

    Fascist Fandom and Raging Incels: Tracing the Baffling Nerd-to-White-Nationalist Pipeline

    By A.E. Osworth  August 16, 2021
    The Internet

    Novels That Offer Easy Lessons Aren’t Worth Reading

    By Jo Hamya  August 16, 2021
    America

    The Cognitive Dissonance of America: Writing Through the Terror of Trumpland

    By Brian Castleberry  August 16, 2021
    Genealogy

    How I Tracked Down the Hidden Lives of the Radical, Wealthy Morris Sisters

    By Julie Klam  August 16, 2021
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