• Craft and Criticism

    Mighty SONG Writers

    WATCH: Phil Augusta Jackson Wants You to Get Out of
    Your Head

    By Literary Hub  August 19, 2020
    On Craft

    Breaking Down the Roiling, Emotional Middle of a James Baldwin Narrative

    By Daniel Joshua Rubin  August 19, 2020
    Psychology

    In Defense of Psychoanalysis and Writing Freudian Fiction

    By Jessica Gross  August 19, 2020
    Franklin Park Reading Series

    Franklin Park Reading Series: Starring Laura van den Berg, Karolina Waclawiak, Bethany C. Morrow, and Mary South

    By The Virtual Book Channel  August 19, 2020
    WMFA

    Kat Gardiner on Writing
    While Parenting

    By WMFA   August 19, 2020
    Otherppl

    Nick Flynn on the Long Stints in the Wilderness When Writing

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  August 19, 2020
    Craft

    Mrs. Bridge Is a Perfect Novel. But How Does It Work?

    By Emily Temple  August 18, 2020
    Dogs

    Can Dogs Make Us
    Better Writers?

    By Anna Bruno  August 18, 2020
    Religious Nationalism

    How Far Has America’s Christianized Dystopia Strayed From Christ?

    By Lori Lansens  August 18, 2020
    Trauma

    The Inherited Imagination

    By Sammi LaBue  August 18, 2020
    Family Drama

    The Literature of Elder Care is Often About Shifting Power Dynamics

    By Ellyn A. Lem  August 17, 2020
    Memoir

    Finding Catharsis in the Story
    of a Family Betrayal

    By Darin Strauss  August 17, 2020
    Literary History

    Does Every Country Need to Have Its Own Sylvia Plath?

    By Rhian Sasseen  August 17, 2020
    Race in Publishing

    On the Flourishing of Black Literary Arts, Old and New

    By Patrick A. Howell  August 17, 2020
    Otherppl

    Stephen Graham Jones on How Horror is the Puppet of Your Own Terror

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  August 17, 2020
    First Draft

    Ursula Hegi on the Seam Between Bliss and Sorrow

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   August 17, 2020
    Essays

    Can the Essay Still Surprise Us?

    By Suzanne Conklin Akbari  August 14, 2020
    Shakespeare

    Black Lives Matter in the Public Theater’s Much Ado About Nothing

    By Arsh Dhillon, Phillip Michalak, Bernadette Looney, Sonia Kangaju, and Charles Onesti  August 14, 2020
    Gay Icons

    John Giorno: Fighting the Battle of Gay Liberation in a Homophobic World

    By Mark Dery  August 14, 2020
    Interview with a Poet

    Will Harris on the Idea of Poetry as Interconnectedness

    By Peter Mishler  August 13, 2020
    California

    How the Corvette Helped Create Southern California Cool

    By Peter Lunenfeld  August 13, 2020
    Literary Biographies

    Nathalie Sarraute: Between Genders and Genres

    By Ann Jefferson  August 13, 2020
    Mighty SONG Writers

    WATCH: Jewel on Battling Anxiety, Living with Dyslexia and Finding Solace in Philosophy

    By Literary Hub  August 12, 2020
    Family

    Yearning for My Grandmother Muriel Rukeyser (and Grappling With Her Legacy)

    By Rebecca Rukeyser  August 12, 2020
    News and Culture

    On Writing a Character Who Confronts Middle Age and the Necessity of Change

    By Literary Hub  August 12, 2020
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