• Craft and Criticism

    Audiobooks

    In Conversation with Actress and Audiobook Narrator Yetide Badaki

    By Traci Currie  October 20, 2020
    Criticism

    On the Unexpected Hopefulness of Don DeLillo’s The Silence

    By Alexander Sammartino  October 19, 2020
    Discovering Old Manuscripts

    How a Rare and Ancient Manuscript Moved Me to Write a Novel

    By Natalka Burian  October 19, 2020
    Diaries

    Ricardo Piglia’s Alter Ego on Epidemics of Violence in Argentina

    By Ricardo Piglia  October 19, 2020
    First Draft

    Claire Messud on Chekhov’s Best Advice

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   October 19, 2020
    Young Adult

    Cory Doctorow: Kids Use Reason, Adults Rationalize

    By Cory Doctorow  October 19, 2020
    Short Stories

    A Way to Beat Mortality

    By Shelly Oria  October 19, 2020
    On Craft

    How to Write a Sci-Fi Rock ‘N’ Roll Novel in Rhyming Couplets

    By Jason Guriel  October 19, 2020
    The History of Literature

    What Happens When You Open a Phone Line for People to Gush About Their Favorite Books

    By History of Literature  October 19, 2020
    Poetry

    The Soul-Excavating Work of Louise Glück

    By Maureen N. McLane  October 16, 2020
    Booksellers

    What I Learned From Interviewing Indie Booksellers In Every State

    By Stephanie Kent and Logan Smalley  October 16, 2020
    How to Proceed

    George Saunders: Everyone Wants to Be Loved. What Do We Do with That?

    By How to Proceed   October 16, 2020
    Criticism

    The Delight of Daniel Mendelsohn

    By James K.A. Smith  October 16, 2020
    On Craft

    How to Write? Don’t… At Least Not Yet

    By Johanna Hedva  October 16, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    The Spontaneous Quarantine Writing that Became a Hit in Japan

    By Barry Yourgrau  October 16, 2020
    NewberyTart

    Kathryn Lasky on the Character Perspective That Most
    Interests Her

    By NewberyTart   October 16, 2020
    The Literary Life

    Allie Brosh: Everybody Wants to Touch Something in the Void…

    By The Literary Life  October 16, 2020
    Dictators

    From Napoleon to Trump, on the
    Tyrant As Troll

    By Liesl Schillinger  October 15, 2020
    Jane Austen

    Every Mr. Darcy* Ranked

    By Emily Temple  October 15, 2020
    Just the Right Book

    NPR’s Guy Raz Is Cheering
    You On

    By Just the Right Book   October 15, 2020
    Otherppl

    How Tori Amos Helped Laura Bogart Channel Vulnerability on the Page

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  October 15, 2020
    Literary Readings

    In Praise of Readings: A Brief History of the Book Events I Have Attended

    By S. Kirk Walsh  October 14, 2020
    Illness

    How Audre Lorde’s Experience of Breast Cancer Fortified Her Revolutionary Politics

    By Tracy K. Smith  October 14, 2020
    Letters

    A Young John Berryman Writes R.P. Blackmur About His Favorite Poets

    By John Berryman  October 14, 2020
    The Craft of Writing

    Emily X.R. Pan on How Writing a Short Story Can Lead to a Better Novel

    By Emily X.R. Pan  October 14, 2020
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