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Bonnie Friedman on the Pleasure of Diving into Details

Bonnie Friedman on the Pleasure of Diving into Details

"To write well we must sink into the silt of this world."

By Bonnie Friedman | August 27, 2021

Too Close To Home: Writing a Book That Your Parents Won’t Read

Too Close To Home: Writing a Book That Your Parents Won’t Read

Michelle Jana Chan on the Power of Family to Shape Your Own Narrative

By Michelle Jana Chan | August 27, 2021

How an Irish Syntactical Peculiarity Helped Me Find My Protagonist’s Voice

How an Irish Syntactical Peculiarity Helped Me Find My Protagonist’s Voice

Kia Corthron on the Challenges of Dialect in Historical Fiction

By Kia Corthron | August 27, 2021

Jose Hernandez Diaz on the Surrealism of Prose Poetry

Jose Hernandez Diaz on the Surrealism of Prose Poetry

This Week from The Common Podcast

By The Common | August 27, 2021

Wayne Koestenbaum Would Like to Thank Dreams and Nouns

Wayne Koestenbaum Would Like to Thank Dreams and Nouns

Some Advice for the Graduating Class of Bennington College
(and the Rest of Us)

By Wayne Koestenbaum | August 26, 2021

Finding Literary Spaces Amid the Intensity of New Motherhood

Finding Literary Spaces Amid the Intensity of New Motherhood

Ellen O’Connell Whittet on Doireann Ní Ghríofa's A Ghost in the Throat

By Ellen O'Connell Whittet | August 26, 2021

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

Matthew Salesses: If We’re Going to Tell Stories About the World, We Need to Make Better Decisions

By The Maris Review | August 26, 2021

Divine Intervention: 6 Books About Women Leaving Strict Religious Communities and Finding Themselves

By Jaye Viner | August 26, 2021

WATCH: Eve Gleichman and Laura Blackett in Conversation with Joshua Henkin

By The Virtual Book Channel | August 26, 2021

10 Short Stories with Great Dialogue That Aren’t “Hills Like White Elephants”

10 Short Stories with Great Dialogue That Aren’t “Hills Like White Elephants”

Do You Believe in Life After Hemingway?

By Emily Temple | August 25, 2021

On Finally Being Old Enough<br> to Love Proust

On Finally Being Old Enough
to Love Proust

Adam Bonislawski Finds Peace in Entropy at the Heart of a Literary Classic

By Adam Bonislawski | August 25, 2021

Katie Crouch in Praise of the Not-Perfectly-Plotted Novel

Katie Crouch in Praise of the Not-Perfectly-Plotted Novel

In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | August 25, 2021

Charlie Jane Anders and Becky Chambers on the Power of Storytelling (and Tea!)

Charlie Jane Anders and Becky Chambers on the Power of Storytelling (and Tea!)

This Week from Tor Presents: Voyage Into Genre

By Tor Presents: Voyage into Genre | August 25, 2021

"No revision, no second thoughts. Already I am terrified." Jean Rhys on writing and life.

By Snigdha Koirala | August 24, 2021

Breaking news: Men still don't know how to write women.

Breaking news: Men still don't know how to write women.

By Vanessa Willoughby | August 24, 2021

Which Big Fall Book Should You Read?

Which Big Fall Book Should You Read?

(A Flowchart)

By Emily Temple | August 24, 2021

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