• Craft and Criticism

    Tor Presents: Voyage Into Genre

    What It Means to Exist: Bethany C. Morrow, TJ Klune, and Naomi Wiens on Sci-Fi for Teens

    By Tor Presents: Voyage Into Genre   July 28, 2021
    Otherppl

    Matthew Specktor on the “Cubist Razor Blade” of Extreme Success

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  July 28, 2021
    Writers on Writers

    More Dogs, More Dogs: Chloe Shaw in Conversation with Dinah Lenney

    By Dinah Lenney  July 28, 2021
    Thresholds

    Michelle Orange on the Particular Anger Between Mothers and Daughters

    By Thresholds   July 28, 2021
    NewberyTart

    On Morality and Fools in Paul Fleischman’s Graven Images

    By NewberyTart   July 28, 2021
    Revision

    Maggie Smith on How to Revise Poems Without Losing the Initial Spark

    By Maggie Smith  July 27, 2021
    Storytelling

    The Benefits of People-Watching: How My Weird Subway Ritual Became a Storytelling Device

    By Nora Zelevansky  July 27, 2021
    The Writing Life

    Alix Ohlin on Navigating the Rich Literary Territory of Dysfunctional Family Dynamics

    By Jane Ciabattari  July 27, 2021
    Queer Literature

    8 Books About the Messiness and Beauty of Queer Life

    By Amanda Kabak  July 27, 2021
    Authors in the Tent

    WATCH: Quan Huynh on Finding Freedom From Behind Bars

    By The Virtual Book Channel  July 27, 2021
    new books tuesday

    20 new books to get you through the week.

    By Katie Yee  July 27, 2021
    Italian Literature

    Mary Jo Bang Wonders Why It Takes So Long to Meet Beatrice in Dante’s Inferno

    By Mary Jo Bang  July 26, 2021
    Jane Austen

    How an 18th-Century Cookbook Offers Glimpses of Jane Austen’s Domestic Life

    By Julienne Gehrer   July 26, 2021
    Craft

    Alix Ohlin on How to Map the Shape of Your Short Story

    By Alix Ohlin  July 26, 2021
    The History of Literature

    Meg Tilly on the Crossover Between Acting in Thrillers and Writing Them

    By History of Literature  July 26, 2021
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Kiese Laymon in Conversation with Robert Jones, Jr.

    By The Virtual Book Channel  July 26, 2021
    The Hub

    Revisiting Raymond Chandler’s most iconic lines.

    By Dan Sheehan  July 23, 2021
    Birds

    What the Animal World Can Teach Us About Human Nature

    By Nick McDonell  July 23, 2021
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: A. Natasha Joukovsky in Conversation with Lauren Oyler

    By The Virtual Book Channel  July 23, 2021
    On Grief

    Toward a Syllabus for Modern Grieving

    By Beth Kissileff  July 23, 2021
    Post-Apocalyptic Lit

    Writing a Fictionalized Apocalypse Does Not Prepare You For a Real One

    By Geoff Rodkey  July 23, 2021
    Fathers and Daughters

    Translating at the Blurred Edge of Memoir and Fiction

    By K. E. Semmel  July 23, 2021
    The Craft of Writing

    Zadie Smith on Reading While You Write

    By Zadie Smith  July 23, 2021
    Gender

    On Freaks and Geeks and Finding My Voice: How Pop Culture Shaped My Poetry

    By Matt Mitchell  July 22, 2021
    The Maris Review

    Why Yaa Gyasi Wants Us to Remember the Brain Is an Organ

    By The Maris Review  July 22, 2021
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