• Craft and Criticism

    Conversations

    Peter Ho Davies on Moving to America and Mixing History with Invention

    By Lauren Bufferd  September 1, 2016
    Essay

    Who Gets to Decide What Counts as “English”?

    By Gabrielle Bellot  August 31, 2016
    Essay

    Becoming a Writer Means Becoming a Cliché

    By Odie Lindsey  August 31, 2016
    Talking shop

    Spread the Word: On Small Presses and the Fight for Publicity

    By Ilana Masad  August 30, 2016
    Excerpts

    Seamus Heaney on William Wordsworth’s One Big Truth

    By Seamus Heaney  August 30, 2016
    Conversations

    Ann Patchett on Stealing Stories, Book Tours, and Staying Off Twitter

    By Mary Laura Philpott  August 29, 2016
    Criticism

    I Love Soap Operas (And They Made Me a Better Writer)

    By Deborah Shapiro  August 29, 2016
    Conversations

    Writing a Novel Limited to the 483 Words Spoken by Ophelia

    By Veronica Esposito  August 29, 2016
    Conversations

    Jacqueline Woodson on Brooklyn and the Brilliance of Black Girls

    By Bethanne Patrick  August 26, 2016
    Deep Dive

    How to Write Coincidence the Right Way

    By Alice Mattison  August 26, 2016
    Essay

    How a Self-Published Writer of Gay Erotica Beat Sci-Fi’s Sad Puppies at their Own Game

    By M. Sophia Newman  August 26, 2016
    Essay

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    By Brendan Mac Evilly  August 26, 2016
    Essay

    Who Am I: Writer or Bookseller?

    By Benjamin Rybeck  August 25, 2016
    Op-Ed

    In Defense of Trash

    By Lisa Levy  August 25, 2016
    Essay

    There is No Secret to Writing About People Who Do Not Look Like You

    By Brandon Taylor  August 25, 2016
    Advice

    Five Reasons Why Writers Should Move to Columbus

    By Annie McGreevy  August 25, 2016
    On Faith

    Tracy K. Smith on God, Poetry, and Parenting in New York City

    By Literary Hub  August 24, 2016
    Essay

    How to Write While Traveling

    By Andrés Neuman  August 24, 2016
    What to Read

    The Grumpy Librarian: Books with Allegorical Animals and A Lot of Sex

    By Caitlin Goodman  August 24, 2016
    Profile

    Caleb Carr Lives in a Very Dark Place

    By Dylan Foley  August 23, 2016
    Novelists

    A Masterpiece of Latin American Literature Finally Appears in English

    By Esther Allen  August 23, 2016
    Conversations

    Margo Jefferson: The Books in My Life

    By Margo Jefferson  August 23, 2016
    How to...

    The Dos and Don’ts of Writing About the Disabled

    By Nicola Griffith  August 23, 2016
    Conversations

    How the Writer Listens: Svetlana Alexievich

    By John Freeman  August 22, 2016
    Essay

    The Dangerous Myth of Authenticity

    By C. B. George  August 18, 2016
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