• Craft and Criticism

    Historical Fiction

    Claire Messud on Writing the Past That Lives Within Us

    By Jane Ciabattari  May 14, 2024
    Abortion

    How Annie Ernaux Inspired Me to Tell My Own Abortion Story

    By Colombe Schneck  May 14, 2024
    New Books Tuesdays

    Hari Kunzru! Freud! System of a Down (the memoir)! 26 new books out today.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  May 14, 2024
    Twitterverse

    Meet the novelists who are re-analyzing HBO’s Girls.

    By Brittany Allen  May 13, 2024
    The Craft of Writing

    Saying the Unsayable, and Listening to Silence: Jon Fosse on How Writing Plays Transformed His Craft

    By Jon Fosse  May 13, 2024
    Coming out

    Continual Self-Revision: Bee Sacks on Coming Out As a Nonbinary Author

    By Bee Sacks  May 13, 2024
    Write-minded

    Jennifer Leigh Selig on Deep Memoir

    By Write-minded   May 13, 2024
    First Draft

    Sunjeev Sahota on Novels as Detective Stories

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   May 13, 2024
    Writing Advice

    Alice McDermott’s Writing Mantra:
    “Ah, Fuck Em.”

    By Alice McDermott  May 10, 2024
    Childhood

    Lolita is Nabokov: On the Parallel Histories of the Writer and His Most Famous Character

    By Monika Zgustova  May 10, 2024
    The Craft of Writing

    Karen Tei Yamashita on Seeking Stories in the Soil

    By Karen Tei Yamashita  May 10, 2024
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    By Book Marks  May 10, 2024
    Queer Literature

    Sitting at the Cool Table: Christina Cooke and Marissa Higgins on the (Supposed) Renaissance of Queer Lit

    By Christina Cooke  May 10, 2024
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Claire Messud on Blurring Family History and Fiction

    By Fiction Non Fiction  May 9, 2024
    Fatherhood

    A Different Kind of Dad Book: Lucas Mann on Fatherhood, Writing, and the Essay as an Act of Care

    By Brian Gresko  May 9, 2024
    Reading Lists

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  May 9, 2024
    craft advice

    How the Beloved Memory of Dead Pets Can Help Guide the Writing Process

    By Simon Van Booy  May 9, 2024
    Journals

    Why You Should Keep a Garden Journal (Even if You Don’t Have a Garden)

    By Fiona Warnick  May 9, 2024
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Wendy Chen is Reading Now, and Next

    By Diana Arterian  May 9, 2024
    The History of Literature

    Sophie Ratcliffe on Loss and Love

    By History of Literature  May 9, 2024
    Appreciations

    In Praise of Pulitzer Prize-Winner Jayne Anne Phillips

    By Jonathan Corcoran  May 8, 2024
    Archives

    Soil As Archive: On the Work of Recognizing Alternate Forms of Sentience

    By Angie Sijun Lou  May 8, 2024
    Abortion Rights

    Punished for Pregnancy: On the Radical Power of The Millstone by Margaret Drabble in a Post-Roe World

    By Carrie Mullins  May 8, 2024
    Mexican Literature

    Why Are So Many Mexican Novels Set in Cantinas?

    By Nicolás Medina Mora  May 8, 2024
    The Cosmic Library

    Justin Taylor on Weird Fiction

    By The Cosmic Library   May 8, 2024
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