• Craft and Criticism

    Craft

    Killing Your Characters Is Traumatic: And It Should Be

    By Karen Outen  February 7, 2024
    Windham-Campbell Prizes

    Yiyun Li on Georges Bernanos’ Mouchette

    By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast   February 7, 2024
    Language

    To Americanize or Americanise: Writing a New Zealand Novel in the America-Dominant Publishing World

    By Rebecca K Reilly  February 7, 2024
    Modern Classics

    Between Tragedy and Wit: Andrew Ewell on William Styron’s Classic, Sophie’s Choice

    By Andrew Ewell  February 7, 2024
    The History of Literature

    Adhaar Noor Desai on Analyzing Shakespeare’s Manuscripts

    By History of Literature  February 7, 2024
    Poetry

    Faith, Witches, Grief, and Smoke: New Poetry Books to Read in February

    By David Woo  February 6, 2024
    New Books Tuesdays

    Margaret Atwood! Anne Carson! Robot writers! 24 new books out today.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  February 6, 2024
    Talk Easy

    Lulu Wang on Balancing Self and Collaboration

    By Talk Easy  February 6, 2024
    Sci-Fi and Fantasy

    Vengeful Goddesses, Panther Zorro, and Time Travel Valleys: February’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

    By Natalie Zutter  February 5, 2024
    Experimental Fiction

    Writing Ugly: Kirsty Gunn on Novelist Rosalind Belben’s Unappealing Appeal

    By Kirsty Gunn  February 5, 2024
    literary criticism

    A Poet Is a Poet Is a Poet: Ed Simon on the Significance of Gertrude Stein’s Subversive Poems

    By Ed Simon  February 5, 2024
    Forgotten Classics

    Camp Over Tragedy: On Henry Van Dyke’s Farcical, Irreverent Novel of Black Gay Life in Mid-Century America

    By Erik Wood  February 5, 2024
    Write-minded

    Ingrid Rojas Contreras on How Stories Pass Through Generations

    By Write-minded   February 5, 2024
    The Craft of Writing

    Rick Bass on What Hunting Taught Hemingway About Writing

    By Rick Bass  February 2, 2024
    Reading Lists

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  February 2, 2024
    Reading Lists

    A Rich But Rare Genre: Exploring Islamic Historical Fiction

    By Jamila Ahmed  February 2, 2024
    Paperbacks

    Matthew Salesses! V (Eve Ensler!) Doomsday cults! 26 books out in paperback this February.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  February 2, 2024
    Trauma

    Fictionalizing Real Trauma as a Means of Healing

    By Chris Cander  February 2, 2024
    Publishing

    Against Disruption: On the Bulletpointization of Books

    By Maris Kreizman  February 1, 2024
    Writers in Conversation

    Complex Nostalgia for a Bygone Era: Alex Auder on Her Chelsea Hotel Childhood

    By Amanda Chemeche  February 1, 2024
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Diana Khoi Nguyen is Reading Now and Next

    By Diana Arterian  February 1, 2024
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Glenn North on Kansas City’s Jazz, Poetry, and Barbeque

    By Fiction Non Fiction  February 1, 2024
    Social Media

    Rebecca Solnit: How to Comment on Social Media

    By Rebecca Solnit  January 31, 2024
    Reading Lists

    January’s Best Reviewed Fiction

    By Book Marks  January 31, 2024
    Work

    Landlord, Teacher, Writer: Brandi Wells on Learning to Separate Themself From Their Job(s)

    By Brandi Wells  January 31, 2024
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