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Jess Walter on the Highsmithian Principles of Suspense

Jess Walter on the Highsmithian Principles of Suspense

On Drama, Suspense, Violence, Psychology, and a Dose of Soul

By Jess Walter | December 16, 2022

Silencing the Technology Beast: Priyanka Kumar on Sinking Into Time While Writing

Silencing the Technology Beast: Priyanka Kumar on Sinking Into Time While Writing

“Sometimes I think about the fortunate writers who didn’t have to contend with our amplified level of distractions.”

By Priyanka Kumar | December 16, 2022

Life Advice for Book Lovers: For a Dose of Optimism, Read This.

Life Advice for Book Lovers: For a Dose of Optimism, Read This.

Book Recommendations for the Troubled Soul

By Dorothea | December 15, 2022

How Do You Know If Your Short Story Should Be a Novel?

How Do You Know If Your Short Story Should Be a Novel?

Bill Cotter Wrestles With the Right Way to Tell a Story

By Bill Cotter | December 15, 2022

Dora Diamant, the Amazing Woman Who Captured Kafka’s Heart

Dora Diamant, the Amazing Woman Who Captured Kafka’s Heart

Kathi Diamant on the New Season of Authors in the Tent

By The Virtual Book Channel | December 15, 2022

“I Don’t Want to Be That Kind of Writer...” Sam Lipsyte on Eliminating the Desire to Imitate Other Writers

“I Don’t Want to Be That Kind of Writer...” Sam Lipsyte on Eliminating the Desire to Imitate Other Writers

In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | December 14, 2022

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By Paul Clements | December 13, 2022

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Alison Watts: The Life of a Translator and Reading for Fun When Your Job is in the Literary World

Alison Watts: The Life of a Translator and Reading for Fun When Your Job is in the Literary World

In Conversation with Christopher Hermelin on So Many Damn Books

By So Many Damn Books | December 13, 2022

Pitchaya Sudbanthad on the Pleasures of Restoring Fountain Pens, and Finding Respite from Writerly Abstraction

Pitchaya Sudbanthad on the Pleasures of Restoring Fountain Pens, and Finding Respite from Writerly Abstraction

Introducing When I’m Not Writing, a Series About Writers and Their Hobbies

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Robin Coste Lewis on Giving the Reader a Poetic Experience

Robin Coste Lewis on Giving the Reader a Poetic Experience

The Poet on Her New Collection To the Perfect Realization of Helplessness

By Literary Hub | December 12, 2022

When Your Book Tour is Interrupted by a Near-Death Experience

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M Dressler Wonders How Much Pain We Should Tolerate

By M Dressler | December 12, 2022

Elizabeth Strout: How Her Imagination as a Child Has Steered Her Writing Career

Elizabeth Strout: How Her Imagination as a Child Has Steered Her Writing Career

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | December 12, 2022

Sam Lipsyte on the What and the How of Writing

Sam Lipsyte on the What and the How of Writing

“Style is your filter on all of this... how it summons language in you, how life comes to be alive on the page.”

By Sam Lipsyte | December 9, 2022

How Chekhov Made Sense of His Surroundings Through Writing Short Stories

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Bob Blaisdell on Chronicling the Literary and Personal Life of One of Russia’s Most Prolific Writers

By Bob Blaisdell | December 9, 2022

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