• Craft and Criticism

    The Hub

    Are you surprised that Stephen King doesn’t outline his plots?

    By Jonny Diamond  June 7, 2021
    Blindness

    On the Cultural Figure—and Lived Reality—of the Blind Writer

    By M. Leona Godin  June 7, 2021
    Alcohol

    Once and For All: Is Drunkenness Actually Good for Art?

    By Edward Slingerland  June 7, 2021
    The History of Literature

    On the Storied Life of Miguel de Cervantes and His Greatest Creation, Don Quixote

    By History of Literature  June 7, 2021
    Residencies

    On Writing Through a Residency That Never Happened (But Did?)

    By Marta Bausells  June 7, 2021
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Raven Leilani in Conversation with Pandora Sykes at the Hay Festival

    By The Virtual Book Channel  June 7, 2021
    Queer Literature

    Matthew Clark Davison on Care, Abuse, and the Narrative Possibilities of Brotherhood

    By Paul Lisicky  June 7, 2021
    World Building

    What Novels Can Borrow from the Sweeping Mythology of the Marvel Cinematic Universe

    By Benjamin Percy  June 4, 2021
    Big Table

    Lili Anolik on Eve Babitz, LA, and the Myth of Objectivity in Biography

    By Big Table  June 4, 2021
    Rejection

    The Advantages of Failure: What Thoreau Taught Me About Journal Writing

    By David Gessner  June 4, 2021
    Reading Lists

    Exploring the… Weirder Side of Reproduction: A Reading List

    By Sara Flannery Murphy  June 4, 2021
    New Books Network

    Why Andrea Stewart Didn’t Want to Write Another Patriarchal Fantasy Novel

    By New Books Network  June 4, 2021
    Reading Lists

    Love Letters to Italy: A Reading List

    By Deb Caletti  June 4, 2021
    Children's Literature

    Making the Tricky Switch From Writing Adult Literature to Children’s

    By Pamela Erens  June 4, 2021
    Museums

    A Moment of Reckoning: Thomas P. Campbell and András Szántó on Museums and Public Trust

    By András Szántó  June 4, 2021
    Interview with a Journal

    Interview with a Journal: The Sewanee Review

    By Vanessa Willoughby  June 4, 2021
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Natasha Brown in Conversation with Meena Kandasamy at the Hay Festival

    By The Virtual Book Channel  June 4, 2021
    The Craft of Writing

    Kristen Arnett on Discovering the Shape of a Book

    By Kristen Arnett  June 4, 2021
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Angie Thomas Talks to Jenny Valentine at the Hay Festival

    By The Virtual Book Channel  June 4, 2021
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Wallace Shawn on His Classic, “Why I Call Myself a Socialist”

    By The Quarantine Tapes  June 4, 2021
    The Maris Review

    Zakiya Dalila Harris on Fictionalizing the Publishing Industry from the Inside

    By The Maris Review  June 3, 2021
    Jazz

    How the Poets Wrote
    of Billie Holiday

    By Cedar Sigo  June 3, 2021
    Obsessions

    Doireann Ní Ghríofa: On Writing and Embodying a Female Text

    By Lori Feathers  June 3, 2021
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    In the Soup: Sean McDonald and Monica West on Publishing During, and After, a Pandemic

    By Fiction Non Fiction  June 3, 2021
    Historical Fiction

    The Pleasures and Pitfalls of Fictionalizing the Life of a Great Artist

    By Lorenza Pieri  June 3, 2021
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