• Craft and Criticism

    Best Short Stories 2024

    Announcing the Winners of the 2024 O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction

    By Jenny Minton Quigley  April 22, 2024
    First Draft

    Marie Mutsuki Mockett on Writing About Sex

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   April 22, 2024
    Write-minded

    Stacey D’Erasmo on the Art of Intimacy

    By Write-minded   April 22, 2024
    Taylor Swift

    “Pale Fire” (Tavi’s Version): Notes on Taylor Swift and the Literature of Obsessive Fandom

    By Leigh Stein  April 19, 2024
    Bookstores

    Paul Yamazaki on the Important, Joyous Work of Running an Independent Bookstore

    By Paul Yamazaki  April 19, 2024
    Reading Lists

    What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    By Book Marks  April 19, 2024
    The Myth of the Middle Class Writer

    How Much is Enough? On the Writerly Balance Between Money and Time

    By Ryan Chapman  April 19, 2024
    The Craft of Writing

    Julia Alvarez on Falling in Love with Writing Again

    By Julia Alvarez  April 19, 2024
    Libraries

    An Oasis in the Desert: Why Libraries Are the Best Places to Write

    By Rahul Mehta  April 19, 2024
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  April 18, 2024
    The Myth of the Middle Class Writer

    Writing As Labor: Doing More With Less, Together

    By David Hill  April 18, 2024
    Am I the Literary Asshole?

    My “Friend” Keeps Sending Me Their Writing and I Need It To Stop: Am I the Literary Asshole?

    By Kristen Arnett  April 18, 2024
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Jen Silverman on Generational Divides in American Politics

    By Fiction Non Fiction  April 18, 2024
    On Grief

    Facing That Which Haunts You: Ethel Rohan on Writing About Grief

    By Ethel Rohan  April 18, 2024
    The Myth of the Middle Class Writer

    The Money Diaries: Real Writers, Real Budgets

    By Literary Hub  April 17, 2024
    The Myth of the Middle Class Writer

    In Service: Writers on Making Ends Meet in the Service Industry

    By Literary Hub  April 17, 2024
    craft advice

    Why Television Can Be Our Best Writing Teacher

    By Christine Ma-Kellams  April 17, 2024
    The History of Literature

    Margot Livesey on Thomas Hardy’s Mistakes

    By History of Literature  April 17, 2024
    On Reading

    The Time I Stole Tama Janowitz’s Slaves of New York and Couldn’t Stop Reading It

    By Elwin Cotman  April 16, 2024
    World War I

    How Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon Forged a Literary and Romantic Bond

    By Michael Korda  April 16, 2024
    The Myth of the Middle Class Writer

    Contemporary Literary Novels Are Haunted by the Absence of Money

    By Naomi Kanakia  April 16, 2024
    Audiobooks

    The Sound of C: On Giving a Voice to the Words of Others

    By Lissa Soep  April 16, 2024
    Writing the Book

    Brianna Pastor Had to Write About Her Grief and Shame to Begin Healing

    By Brianna Pastor  April 16, 2024
    I'm a Writer But

    Julia Hannafin on Thematic Parallels

    By I'm a Writer But   April 16, 2024
    Women Writers

    The Literary Outsider: How Barbara Comyns Wrote Her Way to The Juniper Tree

    By Sarah McClung  April 15, 2024
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