• Craft and Criticism

    First Draft

    Bryan Washington on Giving His Characters the Capacity for Love, Even When They Don’t Have the Language for It

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   November 9, 2020
    Interview with a Poet

    Poet Vijay Seshadri on Loss and Writing as Therapy

    By Peter Mishler  November 9, 2020
    On Poetry

    How Claire Malroux’s Translations of Emily Dickinson Shaped Her Own Poetry

    By Marilyn Hacker  November 9, 2020
    The History of Literature

    The History of Romance Novels, a Billion-Dollar Industry

    By History of Literature  November 9, 2020
    The Writing Life

    No One Gets Sylvia Plath

    By Emily Van Duyne  November 6, 2020
    Book Able

    Karen Russell on Fatal Insomnia and the Demons of Our Dreams

    By Bookable   November 6, 2020
    Children's Lit

    Leanne Hall Examines Her Problematic Childhood Fave

    By Leanne Hall  November 6, 2020
    Craft

    Sandra Cisneros on the Me Too Movement, Narrative Voice, and The House on Mango Street

    By Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera  November 6, 2020
    Poetry

    Elisa Wouk Almino on Beloved Brazilian Poet
    Ana Cristina Cesar

    By Elisa Wouk Almino  November 6, 2020
    Craft

    In Praise of Bob Dylan’s Narrative Strategies…
    and His Verbs

    By Tony Conniff  November 6, 2020
    New Books Network

    P. Djèlí Clark Imagines the Monstrous Creation of the Second Ku Klux Klan

    By New Books Network  November 6, 2020
    Lit Crit

    A Brief History of Citational Fiction and the Literary Supercut

    By Tom Comitta  November 5, 2020
    On Memoir

    The First Mughal Emperor’s Towering Account of Exile, Bloody Conquest, and the Natural World

    By William Dalrymple  November 5, 2020
    Teaching High School

    The High School Teacher Who Changed Kaveh Akbar’s Life

    By Nick Ripatrazone  November 5, 2020
    Titles

    What We Talk About When We Talk About This Title Format

    By Fiona Bell  November 4, 2020
    On Craft

    Colm Tóibín: How Rules of Craft Inhibit Creativity

    By Literary Hub  November 4, 2020
    Red Ink Series

    Live at the Red Ink Series:
    On What It Means to Unravel Along with the World

    By Literary Hub  November 4, 2020
    Reading Women

    K-Ming Chang on Storytelling as Her Greatest Inheritance

    By Reading Women  November 4, 2020
    WMFA

    Deesha Philyaw: Publishing Is Not What You Want Driving Your Self-Worth

    By WMFA   November 4, 2020
    Otherppl

    Sebastian Castillo on the Pleasures of Reading Fiction in Translation

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  November 4, 2020
    Interview

    Virginie Despentes’s Vernon Subutex trilogy was shaped by the 2008 financial crisis.

    By Aaron Robertson  November 3, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    How the Literary World Reinvented the Book Festival in Real Time

    By Literary Hub  November 3, 2020
    Lit Century

    On Female Friendship and Transgression in Nella Larsen’s Passing

    By Lit Century   November 3, 2020
    Work

    Becoming a Zoom Typewriter Poet for Hire

    By Brian Sonia-Wallace  November 3, 2020
    NewberyTart

    On Carl Hiaasen, Florida Childhoods, and Catching Alligators

    By NewberyTart   November 3, 2020
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