• Craft and Criticism

    Thresholds

    Hilary Leichter: “I Don’t Feel Like I’m in a Realist World”

    By Thresholds   May 26, 2021
    Reading Women

    Elizabeth Miki Brina on the Painful Silences in Biracial Families

    By Reading Women  May 26, 2021
    The Common

    How the Music of Joni Mitchell Played a Part in Jennifer Jean’s Poetry

    By The Common  May 26, 2021
    News and Culture

    Judy Grahn on Erotic Power, Queerness, and the Goddess Inanna

    By Corinne Segal  May 26, 2021
    The Hub

    “Get in, get out. Don’t linger. Go on.” Read Raymond Carver’s greatest writing advice.

    By Emily Temple  May 25, 2021
    Summer reading

    38 Novels You Need to Read This Summer

    By Literary Hub  May 25, 2021
    Poetry

    Joy Harjo on Words as Maps, and a Poem by Craig Santos Perez

    By Joy Harjo and Craig Santos Perez  May 25, 2021
    Lit Century

    How Robert Aickman’s Stories Illuminate the Difference Between Horror and Terror

    By Lit Century   May 25, 2021
    Writers on Writers

    Marisa Silver Revisits the Golden Dawn of Girlhood

    By Jane Ciabattari  May 25, 2021
    new books tuesday

    18 new books to read on the beach this week.

    By Katie Yee  May 25, 2021
    Sci-Fi and Fantasy

    The Only Living Black Man in New York: On an Overlooked, Subversive Sci-Fi Story by W.E.B. Du Bois

    By Gabrielle Bellot  May 24, 2021
    Titles

    Toward a Typology of Titles, Or: What the Hell to Call a Story

    By Chris Drangle  May 24, 2021
    Capitalism

    The Concept of the Guilty Pleasure Privileges Productivity Above All Else

    By Arielle Zibrak  May 24, 2021
    Big Table

    Jenn Shapland on Confronting Her Own Sexuality to Tell Carson McCullers’ Story

    By Big Table  May 24, 2021
    Storytelling

    Writing From Inside the Precarious Hunger of Childhood

    By Linda Rui Feng  May 24, 2021
    First Draft

    Anna North on Finding a Narrative Space Between Dystopia and Utopia

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   May 24, 2021
    Science fiction

    Other Worlds, Other Voices: Reading Translated Science Fiction by Women

    By Sharmila Cohen  May 21, 2021
    Book Titles

    77 Strange, Funny, and Magnificent Book Titles You’ve Probably Never Heard Of

    By Edward Brooke-Hitching  May 21, 2021
    Writers on Writers

    To Be a Person: Barrett Swanson and Jordan Kisner in Conversation

    By Jordan Kisner  May 21, 2021
    Life in a Pandemic

    When a Year in the Life of Your Last-Chance Debut Novel Coincides with a Global Pandemic

    By Claire Cox  May 21, 2021
    Historical Fiction

    How Writing a Novel Is Like Decrypting a Cipher

    By Rafe Posey  May 21, 2021
    The Craft of Writing

    John McPhee on Wrestling with a First Draft

    By John McPhee  May 21, 2021
    Interview with a Journal

    Interview with a Journal: Apogee

    By Vanessa Willoughby  May 21, 2021
    New Books Network

    What if Humanity Isn’t the Final Stage of Evolution?

    By New Books Network  May 21, 2021
    Storytelling

    A Witness to the Human Experience: Why Medicine Needs Storytellers

    By David Weill, MD  May 20, 2021
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