• Craft and Criticism

    Politics

    On James Baldwin’s Unflinching Exposé of American Greed and Racial Terror

    By Eddie S. Glaude Jr.  May 6, 2021
    5 Questions

    “Writers Write.” Laura Dave on Writerly Affirmations and Love for Nora Ephron

    By Literary Hub  May 6, 2021
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Michael Kleber-Diggs and Kao Kalia Yang on How Minnesota’s Literary Community Is Reacting to Racial Injustice

    By Fiction Non Fiction  May 6, 2021
    The Maris Review

    Maggie Shipstead: In Praise of Books That Aren’t Totally Satisfying

    By The Maris Review  May 6, 2021
    NewberyTart

    Celia C. Peréz on Creating the Zines She Couldn’t Find in the 90s

    By NewberyTart   May 6, 2021
    Otherppl

    Gina Nutt on the Creative Usefulness of Feeling Stuck

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  May 6, 2021
    Publishing

    All in the Timing: On Publishing a Novel Nine Years After Giving Up on It

    By Joy Lanzendorfer  May 5, 2021
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Tracy K. Smith: How Poetic Vocabulary Helps Us
    Reclaim Joy

    By The Quarantine Tapes  May 5, 2021
    Teaching High School

    8 Ways the Pandemic Has Changed How I Teach High School English

    By Nick Ripatrazone  May 5, 2021
    Thresholds

    Hanif Abdurraqib on Decentering Pain in the Stories of Black Lives

    By Thresholds   May 5, 2021
    Women Writers

    A Game of Cutouts: On Norah Lange’s Unconventional Narrative Experimentation

    By Charlotte Whittle  May 5, 2021
    Reading Women

    Chloe Fergusson-Tibble Recommends Māori Literature

    By Reading Women  May 5, 2021
    Personal Space

    Personal Space: Julie Metz on Memoir as the Key to Locked Family Stories

    By The Virtual Book Channel  May 5, 2021
    Historical Fiction

    How Do You Write a Historical Novel About Under-Documented Lives?

    By Emily Hourican  May 5, 2021
    Folk Music

    Death and the River: Close Reading a Classic Scots’ Border Ballad

    By Ryan Bradley  May 5, 2021
    So Many Damn Books

    Loan Le on Stepping Back into Those Emotional Teen Years to Write a YA Novel

    By So Many Damn Books  May 5, 2021
    Punctuation

    The Punctuation Marks Loved (and Hated) by Famous Writers

    By Emily Temple  May 4, 2021
    new books tuesday

    23 new books to dig into this week.

    By Katie Yee  May 4, 2021
    Lit Century

    On the Time-Traveling Allusions of T.S. Eliot

    By Lit Century   May 4, 2021
    Medicine

    How Doctors Tell Stories: Writing Through the Practice of Medicine

    By Leslie Jamison  May 4, 2021
    Diaries

    How John Steinbeck’s Diaries Helped Me Write My Debut Novel

    By Stacey Swann  May 4, 2021
    Book Origins

    A Spaniard, a Frenchman, and Several Dead Russians: What I Owe Roberto Bolaño

    By Chris Power  May 4, 2021
    The Hub

    This is how Alison Bechdel jumpstarts her creativity.

    By Vanessa Willoughby  May 3, 2021
    Reading Lists

    Redefining the Modern Flâneuse: A Reading List

    By Kavita Bedford  May 3, 2021
    First Draft

    Wrestling with Derrida’s Concept of Forgiving the Unforgivable

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   May 3, 2021
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