Kamila Shamsie on Finding the Perfect Writing Space

Kamila Shamsie on Finding the Perfect Writing Space

“Perhaps there is no such thing as my writing space except wherever I happen to find myself.”

By Kamila Shamsie | September 27, 2022

Hafizah Augustus Geter on Personhood, Race, and Origin in America Today

Hafizah Augustus Geter on Personhood, Race, and Origin in America Today

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | September 27, 2022

Yiyun Li on Writing Advice (the Good, the Bad) and the Books She Always Returns To

Yiyun Li on Writing Advice (the Good, the Bad) and the Books She Always Returns To

The Author of The Book of Goose Takes the Lit Hub Questionnaire

By Literary Hub | September 26, 2022

Neither Villain Nor Victim: Stacey D’Erasmo on Embracing Discomfort in Telling the Story of a Complicit Woman

Neither Villain Nor Victim: Stacey D’Erasmo on Embracing Discomfort in Telling the Story of a Complicit Woman

What It Means to Write in the Direction of Darkness

By Stacey D'Erasmo | September 26, 2022

Qian Julie Wang on Commuting, People-Watching, and Letting the Story Marinate

Qian Julie Wang on Commuting, People-Watching, and Letting the Story Marinate

“I delete and demolish with zeal.”

By Literary Hub | September 26, 2022

Jonathan Escoffery on Playing Out Some of His Worst Fears on the Page

Jonathan Escoffery on Playing Out Some of His Worst Fears on the Page

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | September 26, 2022

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Stacey D’Erasmo on the Fun of Writing Cryptic Characters

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Why Jazz? Laura Warrell on Devotion to a “Dying” Art Form

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The Author of Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm Considers the Mysteries of Art and Love

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How the Trapper Keeper Shaped a Generation of Writers

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Jess deCourcy Hinds on the Most Popular School Supply of All Time

By Jess deCourcy Hinds | September 19, 2022

Break Everything and Begin Again: On Fragmentation as a Form

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Sarah Haas Considers the Ways We Give Shape to Ideas

By Sarah Haas | September 19, 2022

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

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In Conversation with Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner on the Write-minded Podcast

By Memoir Nation | September 19, 2022

Thomas C. Foster on the Seven Deadly Sins of Writing

Thomas C. Foster on the Seven Deadly Sins of Writing

"You cannot let worry win."

By Thomas C. Foster | September 16, 2022

Ellen Meeropol on Writing Into the Gaps Left by Untold Family Stories

Ellen Meeropol on Writing Into the Gaps Left by Untold Family Stories

“When more isn’t there, or the story is hidden, my imagination fills in the blanks left by small snippets of family history.”

By Ellen Meeropol | September 16, 2022

When Your OCD Therapy is Also a Treatment for Writers’ Block

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Elissa Bassist on Learning to Lean in to the Fear of Writing Like an Idiot

By Elissa Bassist | September 16, 2022

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