• Craft and Criticism

    Family

    Betsy Bonner Tracks the Ghost of Her Sister’s Life

    By Jeannie Vanasco  November 17, 2020
    Debut Novels

    7 of the Year’s Best Debut Novelists on Their First
    Literary Loves

    By Literary Hub  November 17, 2020
    Lit Crit

    Sheila Heti on the Importance of Finding Trusted Readers

    By Sheila Heti  November 16, 2020
    Rock N Roll

    Peter Frampton Talks Fame, David Bowie, and The Simpsons

    By Dan Sheehan  November 16, 2020
    Essays

    On the Power of Essayistic Compression in Flash Nonfiction

    By Dinty W. Moore  November 16, 2020
    Sexual Assault

    When Your Memoir Has the Word ‘Rape’ in the Title

    By Michelle Bowdler  November 16, 2020
    First Draft

    Susan Minot: ‘Worship Is a Nicer Word than Obsession’

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   November 16, 2020
    The History of Literature

    The Real Golden Age of
    Science Fiction

    By History of Literature  November 16, 2020
    Personal Essay

    Lily King on Writing the Novel She Needed 30 Years Ago

    By Lily King  November 13, 2020
    5 Books You May Have Missed

    5 Books You May Have
    Missed in October

    By Bethanne Patrick  November 13, 2020
    New Books Network

    Kathleen Jennings on the Grim Genre of the Australian Gothic

    By New Books Network  November 13, 2020
    Material History

    A Toy, a Tool, a Piece of Art: Sarah Haas on What a Book Can Be

    By Sarah Haas  November 12, 2020
    Childhood

    Eudora Welty: How My Parents Built a Childhood of Books

    By Eudora Welty  November 12, 2020
    Feminism

    On George Eliot’s Uncertain Relationship to Feminism

    By Kathy O'Shaughnessy  November 12, 2020
    Translation

    How Sigrid Undset Brought a Medieval Norwegian
    Epic to Life

    By Tiina Nunnally  November 12, 2020
    The Maris Review

    Diane Cook on Letting Her Characters Loose in the Wilderness

    By The Maris Review  November 12, 2020
    So Many Damn Books

    So Many Damn Short Stories with Lena Valencia

    By So Many Damn Books  November 12, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    Want to Feel Better? Stop Reading New Books.

    By Emily Temple  November 11, 2020
    Poetry

    Tracy K. Smith on Translating
    the World of Yi Lei

    By Tracy K. Smith  November 11, 2020
    Walking

    The Dissident Act of Taking a
    Walk at Night

    By Matthew Beaumont  November 11, 2020
    Audiobooks

    Five Audiobooks That Might Be Good For a Laugh This Week

    By James Tate Hill  November 11, 2020
    Otherppl

    Andrew Weatherhead on the Art (and Necessity) of Writing Collage

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  November 11, 2020
    Poetry

    A Poetic Structure Built on Many Voices: Talking to Matthew Daddona

    By Joannie Stangeland  November 11, 2020
    Publishing

    Why I Paid Tenfold to Buy Back the Rights for Two of My Books

    By Kiese Laymon  November 10, 2020
    Lit Century

    On the Dark American Nostalgia of Cheaper By the Dozen

    By Lit Century   November 10, 2020
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