If It Wasn't For My Corporate Office Job, I Couldn't Be a Novelist

If It Wasn't For My Corporate Office Job, I Couldn't Be a Novelist

Jillian Medoff Would Rather Talk About Sex Than Reveal How Much Her Novels Made

By Jillian Medoff | January 8, 2018

Christopher J. Yates Gave Himself 10 Years to Publish a Novel

Christopher J. Yates Gave Himself 10 Years to Publish a Novel

"The rejections pile grew twenty-tall, thirty-high. . ."

By Christopher J. Yates | January 5, 2018

Margaret Atwood and Andrew O'Hagan on Fake News, Truth-Telling, and What Fiction Can Do

Margaret Atwood and Andrew O'Hagan on Fake News, Truth-Telling, and What Fiction Can Do

Part Two of Their Conversation with John Freeman

By Literary Hub | January 4, 2018

Mothers, Daughters, Lovers: On the Groundbreaking Art of Kathleen Collins

Mothers, Daughters, Lovers: On the Groundbreaking Art of Kathleen Collins

Danielle Jackson Finds Inspiration in Whatever Happened to Interracial Love

By Danielle Jackson | January 3, 2018

J.M. Coetzee: Eight Ways of Looking at Samuel Beckett

J.M. Coetzee: Eight Ways of Looking at Samuel Beckett

Imagining Professor Kafka and Beckett on the Beach

By J.M. Coetzee | January 2, 2018

Haunted by the Ghosts of Henry James and Jean Rhys

Haunted by the Ghosts of Henry James and Jean Rhys

Maud Casey on the Mysteries of Literature

By Maud Casey | January 2, 2018

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Ali Smith on the Prescient Genius of J.G. Ballard

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Is <em>Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas</em> a Work of Genius?

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On Russell and Lillian Hoban, Giants of 20th-Century Children's Literature

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Why I Gave Homer a Contemporary Voice in the <em>Odyssey</em>

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Emily Wilson on the Virtues of Hospitality, Now and in the Ancient World

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How Fetishizing 'Craft' Can Get in the Way of a Good Poem

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Michael Bazzett Worries About the Imagining Animal

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The Privilege of Plotlessness

The Privilege of Plotlessness

Lynn Steger Strong on Reading About Rich People While the World Burns

By Lynn Steger Strong | December 18, 2017

A Close Reading of the Best Opening Paragraph of All Time

A Close Reading of the Best Opening Paragraph of All Time

From Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle, of course

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Making the Jump from Stage to Page

Making the Jump from Stage to Page

Playwright-Turned-Novelist Kia Corthron on the Varieties of Storytelling

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