• Craft and Criticism

    Advice

    What Trying to Finish a Crime Novel Taught Me About Writing

    By Jennifer Kitses  August 4, 2017
    Conversations

    Michael Clune on Heroin Addiction and Memories of the First Time

    By Christopher Lydon  August 4, 2017
    Conversations

    Jenny Zhang: “I Didn’t Want to Give in to the White American Gaze”

    By Monika Zaleska  August 3, 2017
    Conversations

    Our Toxic Internet Subcultures Are Now Impacting the World

    By Emily Temple  August 3, 2017
    Essay

    Rereading Mrs. Dalloway at the Same Age as Mrs. Dalloway

    By Carole Burns  August 3, 2017
    Dear aspiring writer

    So You’ve Decided to Write: How the Hell Do You Get Paid?

    By Terry McDonell  August 2, 2017
    Conversations

    Flavor is a Language: An Interview with Mandy Aftel

    By Garnette Cadogan  August 2, 2017
    Conversations

    When Trauma Becomes Dominance: An Interview with Sarah Schulman

    By Adam Fitzgerald  August 2, 2017
    Craft

    The Weird Stenographer: Sam Shepard on His Long Writing Life

    By Emily Temple  August 1, 2017
    Conversations

    Why Short Stories?

    By Emily Temple  August 1, 2017
    Excerpts

    So You’ve Decided to Write: Is Your Novel Actually Fiction or Non?

    By Terry McDonell  August 1, 2017
    Conversations

    Sympathy for the Rich? A Conversation with Christopher Bollen

    By Bethanne Patrick  July 31, 2017
    Conversations

    How a Novel is Like an Orchestra

    By Literary Hub  July 31, 2017
    Profiles

    Ocean Vuong, Reluctant Optimist

    By Yen Pham  July 27, 2017
    Conversations

    Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman on the Palestinian Occupation

    By Emily Temple  July 27, 2017
    Rejection

    So You’ve Decided to Write: The Best Way to Deal with Rejection

    By Terry McDonell  July 27, 2017
    Conversations

    Just Fill Up the Pit! And Other Writing Advice from Famous Authors

    By Emily Temple  July 26, 2017
    The Art of Editing

    So You’ve Decided to Write: The Writer I Never Had to Edit

    By Terry McDonell  July 26, 2017
    Criticism

    There’s No Such Thing As Historical Fiction

    By Paul Lynch  July 26, 2017
    Where to Go

    5 Reasons Why a Writer Should Move to Vancouver

    By Ludmila Leiva  July 26, 2017
    Poets

    Poetry Against the Border Wall

    By Aracelis Girmay  July 26, 2017
    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
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