• Craft and Criticism

    Literary Criticism

    Joan Didion: Why I Write

    By Joan Didion  January 26, 2021
    Lit Century

    On the Ableist Attitudes That Framed V.C. Andrews as a Character in One of Her Novels

    By Lit Century   January 26, 2021
    Book Origins

    How Do We Write About Political Crisis and Personal Conflict?

    By Carys Davies  January 26, 2021
    Storybound

    Jason Diamond Reads from
    The Sprawl

    By Storybound   January 26, 2021
    So Many Damn Books

    Mateo Askaripour on Sorry to Bother You and Giving Up the Scarcity Mindset

    By So Many Damn Books  January 26, 2021
    Politics

    What’s Behind the Label ‘Domestic Fiction’?

    By Soledad Fox Maura  January 25, 2021
    The Quarantine Tapes

    What James Baldwin Taught Nikky Finney About the Poet’s Responsibility to the Living

    By The Quarantine Tapes  January 25, 2021
    Literary Tradition

    Writing a Saudi American Novel When No One Has Done It Before

    By Eman Quotah  January 25, 2021
    First Draft

    Peter Ho Davies on Writing a Book That Hovers Between Fiction and Fact

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   January 25, 2021
    Southern literature

    The Troubled Task of Defining Southern Literature in 2021

    By Ed Tarkington  January 22, 2021
    Reading Habits

    Why Should We Read Unfinished Novels?

    By Matthew Redmond  January 22, 2021
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Katrina vanden Heuvel: ‘A Great Nation Doesn’t Need to Boast’

    By The Quarantine Tapes  January 22, 2021
    Interview with a Poet

    Martín Espada on Framing the Present Through the Lens of the Past

    By Peter Mishler  January 22, 2021
    Book Origins

    On Heartbreak, Absence, and Falling in Love with The Great Gatsby

    By David Stuart MacLean  January 21, 2021
    The Maris Review

    Mateo Askaripour on the Manifest Destiny of Startups

    By The Maris Review  January 21, 2021
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Paul Coates on Finding Hope—and Doubt—in the Present Moment

    By The Quarantine Tapes  January 21, 2021
    Technology

    Why AI Can’t Properly Translate Proust—Yet

    By Michael Wooldridge  January 20, 2021
    Lit Century

    What Makes Flowers in the Attic the Perfect Quarantine Read?

    By Lit Century   January 20, 2021
    On Grief

    Resisting the Badge of ‘Resilience’ in the Wake of a Devastating Loss

    By Emily Rapp Black  January 20, 2021
    Otherppl

    Rob Doyle: What Happened to Expecting Candor from Writers?

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  January 20, 2021
    Reading Women

    R. F. Kuang: How a Hidden History Became a Fantasy Trilogy

    By Reading Women  January 20, 2021
    Thresholds

    Catherine Lacey on the Religious Experience of Reading the Right Book at the Right Time

    By Thresholds   January 20, 2021
    Literary History

    Patricia Highsmith’s Confessions and Rebellions at Yaddo

    By Richard Bradford  January 19, 2021
    On Craft

    25 Essential Notes on Craft from Matthew Salesses

    By Matthew Salesses  January 19, 2021
    First Draft

    Mark Wunderlich on the Resurrecting Powers of Poetry

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   January 19, 2021
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