• Craft and Criticism

    Otherppl

    Patricia Engel on the Importance of Notebooks to Her Writing Process

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  April 26, 2021
    But Make It Fashion

    20 Famous Writers’ Sartorial Trademarks, Ranked

    By Emily Temple  April 23, 2021
    Book Research

    The Book Research No One Would Want: Time in the ICU

    By Paul Griner  April 23, 2021
    5 Books You May Have Missed

    Bad Girl Debutantes, Rebellious Nuns, and a Pregnant Moose: 5 Books You May Have Missed in March

    By Bethanne Patrick  April 23, 2021
    Identity

    How To Tell Readers Who You Are Without Telling Them Who You Are

    By Ursula Pike  April 23, 2021
    Poetry

    10 Women Poets Who Inspired Me To Become a Writer

    By Aija Mayrock  April 23, 2021
    Motherhood

    The Weight of Memory: On Motherhood and the Ghosts of Racial Violence

    By Cassandra Lane  April 23, 2021
    New Books Network

    Robbie Arnott on Creating a Mythical Creature That Embodies the Beauty and Savagery of Nature

    By New Books Network  April 23, 2021
    Literary Disco

    Will Our Next Wave of Fiction Be Escapist, or Corrective?

    By Literary Disco  April 23, 2021
    The Hub

    These are the 5 (er, 10?) best parentheses in literature.

    By Emily Temple  April 22, 2021
    The Maris Review

    Alexander Chee, Morgan Parker, and Emma Straub on the Life of a Writer in NYC

    By The Maris Review  April 22, 2021
    Reading

    Why Should You Read?

    By Will Self  April 22, 2021
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Debra Winger on Reframing Loss After COVID

    By The Quarantine Tapes  April 22, 2021
    Trauma

    The Challenge of Fictionalizing Sexual Assault

    By Alena Dillon  April 22, 2021
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Workshop Politics: Matthew Salesses on Centering the Marginalized Writer

    By Fiction Non Fiction  April 22, 2021
    NewberyTart

    So is a Gnome a Fairy? Tony DiTerlizzi Has the Answer

    By NewberyTart   April 22, 2021
    High Society

    Gilded Age Parties Were Even Wilder Than You Can Imagine

    By Renée Rosen  April 22, 2021
    The Cosmic Library

    Katherine O’Callaghan on the Irish Contexts for Mythical Figure Finn MacCool

    By The Cosmic Library   April 22, 2021
    American Classics

    Walkin’ While Dead: On Black Horror and Wesley Brown’s Tragic Magic

    By Erica Vital-Lazare  April 21, 2021
    In Conversation

    Vulnerability Never Ends: Madeleine Watts on Coming-of-Age Amidst Climate Catastrophe

    By Madelaine Lucas  April 21, 2021
    Life in a Pandemic

    Rereading The Phantom Tollbooth in This Year of Our Pandemic Doldrums

    By Kate Washington  April 21, 2021
    Cats

    The Excruciating Decision to
    End a Cat’s Life

    By Martha Cooley  April 21, 2021
    Poetry

    On the Places and Poetic Forms of the Black Southern Poet

    By Khalisa Rae  April 21, 2021
    Grief

    The Salvific Power of Writing Through Terrible Grief

    By Maryanne O'Hara  April 21, 2021
    Thresholds

    Aimee Nezhukumatathil: If You’re Going to Cut Down Forests, Have the Decency to Name What You Destroy

    By Thresholds   April 21, 2021
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