• Craft and Criticism

    Excerpts

    The Miraculous Power of Reading Aloud

    By Meghan Cox Gurdon  January 17, 2019
    Essay

    Where New York’s Literary Single Girls Lived

    By Amy Rowland  January 17, 2019
    Conversations

    Sam Lipsyte on the Key to Writing: “It All Has to Be the Good Part.”

    By Sam Lipsyte  January 17, 2019
    Essay

    Rediscovering Reading After Graduate School Nearly Destroyed It

    By Jeanna Kadlec  January 16, 2019
    Deep Dive

    How Domesticity is at the Heart of the Novel

    By Tessa Hadley  January 16, 2019
    Conversations

    Lauren Groff and Rachel Kushner Talk Prisons, Prairies, and Power

    By Literary Hub  January 16, 2019
    Essay

    Reading Across America: Have Your Poetry and Eat It, Too

    By Laura Winnick  January 16, 2019
    Deep Dive

    This Science Fiction Novelist Created a Feminist Language from Scratch

    By Rebecca Romney  January 15, 2019
    Conversations

    Samanta Schweblin: There’s No Place Like Home, Including Home Itself

    By Literary Hub  January 15, 2019
    Essay

    Alice Munro Helped Me Finish My Story (And I Didn’t Even Know It)

    By Chris Power  January 15, 2019
    Essay

    How to Say “I’m a Writer” and Mean It

    By Bethany Marcel  January 15, 2019
    Essay

    How I Found Love One Literary Event at a Time

    By Tajja Isen  January 14, 2019
    Essay

    A Brief History of Children’s Books: Nasty, Brutish, and Short

    By Jennifer Traig  January 14, 2019
    Essay

    On the Problems of Changing Style, Novel to Novel

    By Tim Johnston  January 14, 2019
    Craft and Advice

    What’s Needed is Magic: Writing Advice from Haruki Murakami

    By Emily Temple  January 14, 2019
    Essay

    The Virtue of Giddiness in Art

    By Rosie Haward  January 14, 2019
    Feature

    Three Days in the Life (and Mind) of Jan Morris

    By Jan Morris  January 11, 2019
    Conversations

    David Mitchell Just Wants the Earth to Last (and Liverpool to Win the League)

    By Rose Harris-Birtill  January 11, 2019
    Close Reading

    An Unnecessarily Close Reading of That Scene in Portnoy’s Complaint

    By Emily Temple  January 11, 2019
    Conversations

    Cedar Sigo on Playfulness and Poetry

    By Peter Mishler  January 11, 2019
    Talking shop

    Notice Me: How Literary Publicity Works

    By Literary Hub  January 10, 2019
    Essay

    On the Excavation of My Desk

    By David L. Ulin  January 10, 2019
    New in Nonfiction

    Meet the Writer Who Chased Eve Babitz All Over Hollywood

    By Zan Romanoff  January 10, 2019
    Feature

    How Do You Set James Joyce’s Most Famous Story on the Stage?

    By Leslie Pariseau  January 10, 2019
    Excerpts

    An Oddly Poetic Account of Colorblindness from the Turn of the Last Century

    By Emily Noyes Vanderpoel  January 10, 2019
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