• Craft and Criticism

    Influences

    The Biggest Influence on My Novel Is… McDonald’s?

    By Ryan Chapman  May 21, 2019
    Criticism

    13 Common Mistakes in Book Reviewing and
    How to Avoid Them

    By Jay A. Fernandez  May 21, 2019
    On Race

    Ebony Thomas on Seeking the Fantastic When the World Tells You Not To

    By Ebony Elizabeth Thomas  May 21, 2019
    Writers at Home

    T.C. Boyle is Most Certainly Living His Best Life

    By Peter Nowogrodzki  May 21, 2019
    What Should A Narrative Be?

    On Obliterating How Narrative Art Should Function

    By Will Vanderhyden  May 21, 2019
    Failed Books

    Trying to Figure Out Bruce Chatwin’s Unpublished
    Magnum Opus

    By Jeremy Klemin   May 20, 2019
    Friendship

    Walking Through the Woods of Midtown with Jessica Francis Kane

    By Brian Gresko  May 20, 2019
    The Hub

    Quiz: Is this my first book tour or my own funeral?

    By Kimberly Harrington  May 17, 2019
    New in Nonfiction

    The Ongoing Exile of the Undocumented

    By Oscar Villalon  May 17, 2019
    Literary History

    Discovering an Iconic Literary Character Was Based on Your Grandfather

    By Brian Birnbaum  May 16, 2019
    Witches

    On a New Generation of Villainous Women, From Witches to Wicked Stepmothers

    By Alexis Gunderson  May 16, 2019
    New in Nonfiction

    On Robert Caro, Great Men, and the Problem of Powerful Women in Biography

    By Caroline Fraser  May 16, 2019
    On Grief

    Sakia Vogel on Grief, Mary Gaitskill, and the City of Angels

    By Philip Teir  May 16, 2019
    Family History

    Dani Shapiro on Unraveling Her Family’s History

    By Michele Filgate  May 16, 2019
    Domestic Violence

    Is Masculinity a Terrorist Ideology?

    By Lacy M. Johnson  May 15, 2019
    Writing Advice

    Some Writing Advice: Don’t Take Others’ Advice

    By Guy Gavriel Kay  May 15, 2019
    Kafkaesque

    On Translating Mario Levrero,
    The Kafka of Uruguay

    By Annie McDermott  May 15, 2019
    Poets

    Bruce Smith on Poetry in Prison and the Poetic Task of Demystification

    By Peter Mishler  May 15, 2019
    Literary Criticism

    The 36 Best One-Star Amazon Reviews of Mrs. Dalloway

    By Emily Temple  May 14, 2019
    Family Stories

    When to Write It, When to Walk Away: On the Problem of Too Much Metaphor

    By Jessica Francis Kane  May 14, 2019
    Book Dedications

    Behind the Book Dedications: “A Private Moment in a Public Object”

    By Julia Carpenter  May 14, 2019
    WWII

    Uncovering the Secret History of a WWII-Era Brooklyn Spy

    By David A. Taylor  May 14, 2019
    Erin Somers

    Erin Somers on Rich Kids, Melancholy, Slapstick, and More

    By So Many Damn Books  May 14, 2019
    Rediscoveries

    Joanna Scutts on How We Find—and Lose—Women Writers

    By Joanna Scutts  May 13, 2019
    Rock N Roll

    Why Is It So Hard to Write About Music in Fiction?

    By Anne Valente  May 13, 2019
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