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Why We'll Never Get Tired of Literary Retellings

Why We'll Never Get Tired of Literary Retellings

Meg Donohue on the Enduring Appeal of Updating Old Stories

By Meg Donohue | May 28, 2019

Billy Kahora on Binyavanga Wainaina's Groundbreaking Work

Billy Kahora on Binyavanga Wainaina's Groundbreaking Work

"Nothing was impossible for a writer like him."

By Billy Kahora | May 24, 2019

Kim Adrian on Listening to What Our Nonfiction Is Trying to Tell Us

Kim Adrian on Listening to What Our Nonfiction Is Trying to Tell Us

The Endless Difficulty of Marrying Form and Content

By Kim Adrian | May 24, 2019

On Cora Crane and the Literary Women Who Prop Up Literary Men

On Cora Crane and the Literary Women Who Prop Up Literary Men

In Celebration of a Writer, Bill-Payer, and Bordello Owner

By Jaime Fuller | May 24, 2019

Struggling to Mine Family History for My Novel

Struggling to Mine Family History for My Novel

Roxana Robinson on Capturing Her Great-grandfather in Fiction

By Roxana Robinson | May 24, 2019

What Happens When You Pose as Susan Sontag on Twitter?

What Happens When You Pose as Susan Sontag on Twitter?

Rebecca Brill on Inhabiting the Diaries of a Great Mind

By Rebecca Brill | May 23, 2019

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20 Ways to Be a Great Literary Citizen, According to Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

By Adam Ehrlich Sachs | May 23, 2019

On Fact, Fiction, and Translating Lena Andersson

By Saskia Vogel | May 23, 2019

How Imagining Other Worlds Can Help You Imagine Other Selves

By Veronica Esposito | May 22, 2019

Brandon Taylor: When to Protect Your Characters, and When to Punish Them

Brandon Taylor: When to Protect Your Characters, and When to Punish Them

On Alice Munro, Karl-Ove Knausgaard, and the Impulses of the MFA

By Brandon Taylor | May 22, 2019

Six of the Best Bad Women in Fiction

Six of the Best Bad Women in Fiction

From Jane Eyre to Olive Kitteridge, Sara Collins Favorite Flawed Protagonists

By Sara Collins | May 22, 2019

"Make Them Care About What You Think" and Other Writing Advice from Nora Ephron

Oh, who gives a damn."">"I mean we’ve all read pieces where we thought, Oh, who gives a damn."

By Emily Temple | May 21, 2019

The Biggest Influence on My Novel Is... McDonald's?

The Biggest Influence on My Novel Is... McDonald's?

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Your Writing to a Big Mac

By Ryan Chapman | May 21, 2019

13 Common Mistakes in Book Reviewing and <br>How to Avoid Them

13 Common Mistakes in Book Reviewing and
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Jay A. Fernandez is Looking to Write Some Wrongs

By Jay A. Fernandez | May 21, 2019

Ebony Thomas on Seeking the Fantastic When the World Tells You Not To

Ebony Thomas on Seeking the Fantastic When the World Tells You Not To

Writing Towards Magic as a Person of Color

By Ebony Elizabeth Thomas | May 21, 2019

T.C. Boyle is Most Certainly Living His Best Life

T.C. Boyle is Most Certainly Living His Best Life

Seven Conversations from an Afternoon with a Writer in His Habitat

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