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Why Does Anyone Write?

Why Does Anyone Write?

Writing a Novel is a Painful and Bloody Process

By Alice Adams | June 29, 2016

How Michael Herr Transcended New Journalism

How Michael Herr Transcended New Journalism

Robert Stone on Dispatches, Groundbreaking Reportage from the Vietnam War

By Robert Stone | June 28, 2016

What Kind of Writer Are You: Cook or Baker?

What Kind of Writer Are You: Cook or Baker?

Improvise and Season Liberally; You Can Always Salvage Dinner

By Anna North | June 28, 2016

John Berger Tells a Fish Story (and More)

John Berger Tells a Fish Story (and More)

Among the Eels of the Po River Delta

By John Berger | June 28, 2016

Why You Should Aim for 100 Rejections a Year

Why You Should Aim for 100 Rejections a Year

Kim Liao on Flipping Your Perspective on Submissions, and Failing Best

By Kim Liao | June 28, 2016

The Wife (a Writer) Interviews the Husband (Also a Writer)

The Wife (a Writer) Interviews the Husband (Also a Writer)

Carrie Brown talks with John Gregory Brown About His New Novel

By Carrie Brown | June 28, 2016

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Angela Flournoy, Leslie Jamison, and Katherine Towler on Artistic Solitude

By Literary Hub | June 24, 2016

How Writing About Pit Bulls Led to Death Threats, Online and IRL

How Writing About Pit Bulls Led to Death Threats, Online and IRL

On the Firestorm Around Bronwen Dickey's New Book

By Melissa Holbrook Pierson | June 24, 2016

Dante, Auschwitz, and the World Beyond the Sun

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Louis Begley's Life with the Divine Comedy

By Louis Begley | June 24, 2016

Christos Ikonomou, Accidental Prophet of a Country in Crisis

Christos Ikonomou, Accidental Prophet of a Country in Crisis

The Author of Something Will Happen, You'll See in conversation at Green Apple Books

By Literary Hub | June 23, 2016

Modern China is So Crazy It Needs a New Literary Genre

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On Living Through the "Ultra-Unreal," and Writing About It

By Ning Ken | June 23, 2016

On the Invisibility of Middle-Aged Women

On the Invisibility of Middle-Aged Women

Dorthe Nors Writes Characters on the Verge of Disappearance

By Dorthe Nors | June 22, 2016

Virginia Heffernan on the Hallucinatory Splendor of the Internet

Virginia Heffernan on the Hallucinatory Splendor of the Internet

Andrew Keen, in Conversation with the Author of Magic and Loss

By Andrew Keen | June 22, 2016

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