• Craft and Criticism

    Travel

    Reading Across America: Storytelling on a Mountain and in Caves

    By Sara Finnerty  July 26, 2017
    Deep Dive

    Why Write a Musical About the Brontës?

    By Katie Palmer  July 26, 2017
    Did you know?

    The Time Murakami Met Carver (and Other Literary Meet-Cutes)

    By Emily Temple  July 25, 2017
    Advice

    So You’ve Decided to Write: Will You Tell the Truth?

    By Terry McDonell  July 25, 2017
    Advice

    Reading Aloud With Others Is More Important Than You Think

    By Abigail Williams  July 25, 2017
    Conversations

    Marriage, Secrets, and Housewives Turned Beasts

    By Helen Ellis  July 25, 2017
    Deep Dive

    The Radical Potential of Queer Road Novels

    By Allison Gallagher  July 25, 2017
    Travel

    Visiting the Actual Island That Inspired Neverland

    By John Pielmeier  July 24, 2017
    Deep Dive

    Why Write a Novel About Teenage Suicide?

    By Sharon Solwitz  July 21, 2017
    The Art of Editing

    So You’ve Decided to Write: On Editing James Salter

    By Terry McDonell  July 20, 2017
    Conversations

    How to Write a Poem About a Cemetery: Speaking with Jennifer Firestone

    By MC Hyland  July 20, 2017
    Advice

    So You’ve Decided to Write: Take Advantage of Your Insomnia

    By Terry McDonell  July 19, 2017
    The Art of Editing

    So You’ve Decide to Write: What I Learned Editing Hunter S. Thompson

    By Terry McDonell  July 18, 2017
    Personal Essay

    How a Book About Grover Revealed to Me the Wide World of Literature

    By David Burr Gerrard  July 18, 2017
    Deep Dive

    Jane Austen’s Most Widely Mocked Character is Also Her Most Subversive

    By Rachel Dunphy  July 18, 2017
    Deep Dive

    A Woman Alone in London: On the Literature of Solitude

    By Lucy Scholes  July 17, 2017
    Craft

    The Intimacy of Writing in the Second Person, in a Bar

    By Mairead Small Staid  July 14, 2017
    Writer's block

    How to Turn Your Debut Novel In 13 Years Late

    By Gabe Hudson  July 13, 2017
    The Art of Editing

    So You’ve Decided to Write: What I Learned From Editing Jim Harrison

    By Terry McDonell  July 13, 2017
    Profile

    Akhil Sharma on Writing the Darker Side of Indian Life

    By Dylan Foley  July 13, 2017
    Excerpts

    Bill McKibben: Thoreau Suggests You Put Down Your Smartphone

    By Bill McKibben  July 12, 2017
    Advice

    So You’ve Decided to Write: When to Drown Your Darlings

    By Terry McDonell  July 12, 2017
    Personal Essay

    How Thoreau (And My Father) Taught Me That Literature is a Public Good

    By Kristen Case  July 12, 2017
    Personal Essay

    Spider-Man Taught Me How to Live, Comics Taught Me How to Write

    By Nikesh Shukla  July 12, 2017
    Advice

    So You’ve Decided to Write: Advice from a Great and Notorious Editor

    By Terry McDonell  July 11, 2017
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