What the Poet Can Do in the Face of the Modern Colonial State

What the Poet Can Do in the Face of the Modern Colonial State

Aruni Kashyap Finds Defiance and Potential in Tradition of the Testimonio

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The Mistake No Dialogue Writer Should Ever Make

The Mistake No Dialogue Writer Should Ever Make

Dan O'Brien Has Some Thoughts on the Way Characters Should Talk

By Dan O'Brien | September 20, 2021

Kevin McIlvoy on a Novel Can Make Room for Dynamic Crowding

Kevin McIlvoy on a Novel Can Make Room for Dynamic Crowding

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

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How to write like Cheryl Strayed.

How to write like Cheryl Strayed.

By Vanessa Willoughby | September 17, 2021

Why Everyone Should Read the Great Karen Tei Yamashita

Why Everyone Should Read the Great Karen Tei Yamashita

Josh Cook on This Year’s Recipient of the National Book Foundations’s Literarian Award

By Josh Cook | September 17, 2021

Interview with an Indie Press: After Hours Editions

Interview with an Indie Press: After Hours Editions

On the “Slow Burn” of Publishing Poetry

By Corinne Segal | September 17, 2021

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Patrick Radden Keefe on the Fine Line Between Reporting and Storytelling

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Live at the Red Ink Series: On Using Reinvention as a Writing Tool

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Margaret Renkl on Finding Ideas Everywhere

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From Exobiology and Geology to... Writing Fiction?

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Linda Rui Feng on Writing as an Act of Telepathy

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An Alleged Lock of Emily Dickinson’s Hair is Selling for $450,000... <br>But Was it Stolen?

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Jen DeGregorio Investigates the Curious Case of a Great Poet’s Hair

By Jen DeGregorio | September 16, 2021

You Want Voice? It’s Everywhere in Contemporary Fiction

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Katie Yee Has Had Enough With a Certain Corner of
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Encountering Annie Ernaux’s Urban Landscapes and Scattered Selves

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Lauren Elkin on the Writer's Approach to Reality

By Lauren Elkin | September 16, 2021

On the Importance of How We Write Mental Illness in Fiction

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Louise Nealon Considers the Ways in Which We Translate Experience

By Louise Nealon | September 16, 2021

Sanjena Sathian on the Downfalls of Ambition

Sanjena Sathian on the Downfalls of Ambition

This Week on the Book Dreams Podcast

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Lauren Groff Knows You’re Getting Her Book Title Wrong

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In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

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