The Biggest Influence on My Novel Is... McDonald's?

The Biggest Influence on My Novel Is... McDonald's?

Ryan Chapman Worries It Is a Bad Idea to Compare
Your Writing to a Big Mac

By Ryan Chapman | May 21, 2019

13 Common Mistakes in Book Reviewing and <br>How to Avoid Them

13 Common Mistakes in Book Reviewing and
How to Avoid Them

Jay A. Fernandez is Looking to Write Some Wrongs

By Jay A. Fernandez | May 21, 2019

Ebony Thomas on Seeking the Fantastic When the World Tells You Not To

Ebony Thomas on Seeking the Fantastic When the World Tells You Not To

Writing Towards Magic as a Person of Color

By Ebony Elizabeth Thomas | May 21, 2019

T.C. Boyle is Most Certainly Living His Best Life

T.C. Boyle is Most Certainly Living His Best Life

Seven Conversations from an Afternoon with a Writer in His Habitat

By Peter Nowogrodzki | May 21, 2019

On Obliterating How Narrative Art Should Function

On Obliterating How Narrative Art Should Function

Translator Will Vanderhyden in Conversation with Carlos Labbé

By Will Vanderhyden | May 21, 2019

Trying to Figure Out Bruce Chatwin's Unpublished<br> Magnum Opus

Trying to Figure Out Bruce Chatwin's Unpublished
Magnum Opus

Jeremy Klemin on a Legendary Travel Writer's Attempt
to Figure It All Out

By Jeremy Klemin | May 20, 2019

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Walking Through the Woods of Midtown with Jessica Francis Kane

By Brian Gresko | May 20, 2019

Quiz: Is this my first book tour or my own funeral?

By Kimberly Harrington | May 17, 2019

The Ongoing Exile of the Undocumented

By Oscar Villalon | May 17, 2019

Discovering an Iconic Literary Character Was Based on Your Grandfather

Discovering an Iconic Literary Character Was Based on Your Grandfather

Did Joseph Heller Base Catch-22's John Yossarian on Julius Fish?

By Brian Birnbaum | May 16, 2019

On a New Generation of Villainous Women, From Witches to Wicked Stepmothers

On a New Generation of Villainous Women, From Witches to Wicked Stepmothers

How Contemporary Writers Are Reframing Narratives Around Female Characters

By Alexis Gunderson | May 16, 2019

On Robert Caro, Great Men, and the Problem of Powerful Women in Biography

On Robert Caro, Great Men, and the Problem of Powerful Women in Biography

Caroline Fraser: “Power and ambition in women are often hidden, buried, shrouded, disguised, crushed, thwarted, mocked, warped, punished, or excoriated.”

By Caroline Fraser | May 16, 2019

Sakia Vogel on Grief, Mary Gaitskill, and the City of Angels

Sakia Vogel on Grief, Mary Gaitskill, and the City of Angels

The Author of Permission In Conversation with Philip Teir

By Philip Teir | May 16, 2019

Dani Shapiro on Unraveling Her Family's History

Dani Shapiro on Unraveling Her Family's History

The Author of Inheritance in Conversation with Michele Filgate

By Michele Filgate | May 16, 2019

Is Masculinity a Terrorist Ideology?

Is Masculinity a Terrorist Ideology?

Lacy Johnson on Rachel Louise Snyder and the Ways We Name Violence

By Lacy M. Johnson | May 15, 2019

Some Writing Advice: Don't Take Others' Advice

Some Writing Advice: Don't Take Others' Advice

Guy Gavriel Kay on Doing Whatever It Takes

By Guy Gavriel Kay | May 15, 2019

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