• Features

    So Many Damn Books

    “There Are an Unreasonable Number of Words.” GennaRose Nethercott on Moving from Poetry to a Novel

    By So Many Damn Books  September 20, 2022
    Keen On

    How Rising CO2 Is Turning Life on Earth Into a Bad Science Fiction Movie

    By Keen On  September 20, 2022
    I'm a Writer But

    Tim Jones-Yelvington on Writing About Sex Through the Affect of Language

    By I'm a Writer But   September 20, 2022
    Behind the Mic

    Man O’ War by Cory McCarthy, Read by E.R. Fightmaster

    By Behind the Mic   September 20, 2022
    The Writers Institute

    What Makes Things Go Right or Wrong For Novelists in Hollywood?

    By The Writers Institute  September 20, 2022
    Keen On

    Black Skinheads and Kanye West: Reflecting on the Democratic Party As the Natural Political Home of African Americans

    By Keen On  September 20, 2022
    Keen On

    A Defense of Aristocracy? How the American Morgenthau Dynasty Pursued an Ethic of Public Service

    By Keen On  September 20, 2022
    Nostalgia

    How the Trapper Keeper Shaped a Generation of Writers

    By Jess deCourcy Hinds  September 19, 2022
    In Conversation

    Exploring Spaces Between Experiences and Stories: Rachel Aviv and Chloé Cooper Jones in Conversation

    By Chloé Cooper Jones  September 19, 2022
    Fragmentary Essays

    Break Everything and Begin Again: On Fragmentation as a Form

    By Sarah Haas  September 19, 2022
    Home

    The Lost Stitch, The Loosened Tile: Akiko Busch on the Ambiguities of Home

    By Akiko Busch  September 19, 2022
    Education

    Teaching Literature in the New Culture Wars: Some Alternative Approaches

    By Deborah Appleman  September 19, 2022
    Witches

    A Brief History of Calling Women Witches

    By Eleanor Herman  September 19, 2022
    Narrative Structures

    Stories Where Nothing Happens in the Middle of Nowhere: A Reading List

    By Michael Martone  September 19, 2022
    Politics

    How Barack Obama Helped Joe Biden Become the 46th President of the United States

    By Gabriel Debenedetti  September 19, 2022
    Folklore

    In Praise of the Bold, Powerful Women of Slavic Fairy Tales

    By Olesya Salnikova Gilmore  September 19, 2022
    Keen On

    Why the 9.9% Is Running Our World—and How the 91.1% Need to Fight Back Against This Aristocracy

    By Keen On  September 19, 2022
    Keen On

    Why the Next Major Civil Rights Movement Is Mental Health Activism

    By Keen On  September 19, 2022
    Emergence Magazine

    Jake Skeets: How the Indigenous Application of Writing Can Reshape Our World

    By Emergence Magazine  September 19, 2022
    Keen On

    Kate Beaton on Why Her Coming-Of-Age Memoir Isn’t as “Dismal” as Some Critics Have Suggested

    By Keen On  September 19, 2022
    First Draft

    Jill Bialosky on Mentoring Young Women Through Her Writing

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   September 19, 2022
    Behind the Mic

    Haven by Emma Donoghue, Read by Aidan Kelly

    By Behind the Mic   September 19, 2022
    Write-minded

    A.M. Homes on How to Write Characters that Stick with Your Readers

    By Write-minded   September 19, 2022
    WWII

    When Collective Trauma Becomes Collective Amnesia: Reading Polina Barskova on Russia’s Myth of Itself

    By Tanya Paperny  September 16, 2022
    Books In Translation

    The Art of the Hand-Sell: Booksellers Recommend Translations

    By Katie Yee  September 16, 2022
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