Maurice Carlos Ruffin on Understanding Voice in Fiction

Maurice Carlos Ruffin on Understanding Voice in Fiction

"I write as a conductor, not as a performer."

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Emma Sloley on Exploring Fear and Violence in Intimate Relationships

Emma Sloley on Exploring Fear and Violence in Intimate Relationships

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"I'll take my characters to bed." Walter Dean Myers on his writing process and routines.

By Vanessa Willoughby | August 12, 2021

Aching for the American Dream: On Writing the Delicate Stories of Immigrant and Refugee Students

Aching for the American Dream: On Writing the Delicate Stories of Immigrant and Refugee Students

Elly Fishman on What It Means to Earn the Trust of Her Teenage Subjects

By Elly Fishman | August 12, 2021

The Power and Perils of Storytelling: How We Make Narratives Out of Predatory Relationships

The Power and Perils of Storytelling: How We Make Narratives Out of Predatory Relationships

Jane Healey on Truth and Uncertainty in My Dark Vanessa, Consent, and More

By Jane Healey | August 12, 2021

So You Want to Write a Novel About a Legendary Corn Geneticist...

So You Want to Write a Novel About a Legendary Corn Geneticist...

Rachel Pastan on What It Takes to Fictionalize a Life

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In Praise of the Info Dump: A Literary Case for Hard Science Fiction

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Daniel LoPilato on Greg Egan’s Diaspora and the Limits of Literary Realism

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On Bafflement: Reflections on Marilynne Robinson and the Theology of Skateboarding

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Women’s Memoirs at the Intersection of Chronic Illness, Mental Illness, Addiction, and Trauma

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Thereness on the Outer Banks: On Landscape in Literature

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Angel Khoury Considers What It Means to Evoke a Place

By Angel Khoury | August 11, 2021

Mary Ruefle on How Art Exploded Her World

Mary Ruefle on How Art Exploded Her World

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on the Thresholds Podcast

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On the 1983 Newbery Book That Should Be Left by the Wayside

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Zakiya Dalila Harris on the Commodification of Blackness, in Publishing and Beyond

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