• Craft and Criticism

    Publishing

    How to Write an Email Well Enough to Land a Book Deal

    By Anne Trubek  July 28, 2020
    Linguistics

    Some of the Earliest Written Dialogues Were in Middle English Literature

    By David Crystal  July 28, 2020
    Anti-Colonialism

    Amiri Baraka’s Anti-Epic Poem About America’s Destruction

    By Michael Leong  July 28, 2020
    The Writing Life

    To Live Alone in the Woods and Write

    By Melissa Faliveno  July 27, 2020
    5 Questions

    Byron Lane on Being Carrie Fisher’s Personal Assistant

    By Literary Hub  July 27, 2020
    Jane Austen

    On Jane Austen’s Politics of Walking

    By Rachel Cohen  July 24, 2020
    Hawaiian History

    The Citizen Scholar Who Led the Hunt for Queen Lili’uokalani’s Lost Diaries

    By Julia Flynn Siler  July 24, 2020
    5 Questions

    Amanda Brainerd on Bowie, Boarding School, and the Discourse Around Consent

    By Literary Hub  July 24, 2020
    Nazi Germany

    Learning to Decipher My Father’s Past in Nazi Germany

    By L. Annette Binder  July 24, 2020
    Conversations

    Catherine Lacey is Not Interested in Promises of Redemption

    By Kristin Iversen  July 23, 2020
    Craft

    How Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure Taught Me to Write

    By Lucie Britsch  July 23, 2020
    Cartoons

    Adrian Tomine Confronts Shame, Failure, and Jerks in Cartooning

    By Emily Gould  July 23, 2020
    Science fiction

    Arthur C. Clarke’s Scientific Romances Eschew Spectacle for Dumbstruck Wonder

    By John Clute  July 23, 2020
    On Poetry

    On Exploiting the Labor of a Dear Friend, Who is Also a Poet

    By Rebecca Wolff  July 23, 2020
    Immigration

    How John Steinbeck’s Final Novel Grappled With Immigration and Morality

    By Tobias Carroll  July 22, 2020
    Twins

    A Genealogy of Twins: On Identity and Projected Lives

    By Larry Watson  July 22, 2020
    Publishing

    A Love Letter to Developmental Editors

    By R.L. Maizes  July 22, 2020
    Palestine

    To Be the Poet of Troy:
    An Interview with Mosab Abu Toha by Philip Metres

    By Philip Metres  July 22, 2020
    In Memoriam

    Remembering Australian Novelist Elizabeth Harrower

    By Michael Heyward  July 22, 2020
    Poetry

    Rumaan Alam and Jameson Fitzpatrick on Sex, Poetry, and Textiles

    By Literary Hub  July 21, 2020
    Fantasy

    On the Biggest Collection of Fantasy Tales Since WWII

     July 21, 2020
    Writer's block

    How I Cured My Writer’s Block With Techno

    By Stan Parish  July 21, 2020
    Short Stories

    Five Japanese Authors Share Their Favorite Murakami Short Stories

    By David Karashima  July 20, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    On John Berger and Writing As an
    Act of Distancing

    By Guy Gunaratne  July 20, 2020
    Correspondence

    Lydia Davis on Making the Decision
    Not to Fly

    By Lydia Davis  July 20, 2020
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