• Craft and Advice

    First Draft

    Margot Livesey on Choosing the Right Idea for a New Book

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   September 8, 2020
    Behind the Mic

    Caste by Isabel Wilkerson, Read by Robin Miles

    By Behind the Mic   September 7, 2020
    How to Proceed

    Terrance Hayes Considers
    Trump vs. Poetry

    By How to Proceed   September 4, 2020
    Bookable

    Gary Shteyngart and Paul LaFarge: There’s a Tornado Coming… Let’s Talk Craft

    By Bookable   September 4, 2020
    The Maris Review

    Natasha Trethewey on Surviving the White Mind of the South

    By The Maris Review  September 3, 2020
    So Many Damn Books

    Megha Majumdar on Why Any of Us Write

    By So Many Damn Books  September 3, 2020
    Mighty SONG Writers

    WATCH: Valerie June Needs Her Songs—and Her Life—to Have Soul

    By Literary Hub  September 2, 2020
    WMFA

    Alexander Chee on How a Single Story Can Contain Many Rooms

    By WMFA   September 2, 2020
    Damian Barr's Literary Salon

    Colm Toíbín: ‘How do you write a novel? You write a novel. Why are you not doing it now?
    Go home.’

    By Damian Barr's Literary Salon  September 2, 2020
    Otherppl

    David Goodwillie on the Private Rollercoaster That is
    the Writer’s Life

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  September 2, 2020
    On Craft

    If Only Doctors Could Treat Historical Guilt

    By Katharina Volckmer  September 2, 2020
    The Hub

    Jonathan Franzen’s best piece of advice for young writers will probably surprise you.

    By Emily Temple  September 1, 2020
    5 Questions

    Hari Kunzru is Never Going to Read To Kill a Mockingbird

    By Literary Hub  September 1, 2020
    Craft

    On Repetition As a Powerful
    Literary Tool

    By Geraldine Woods  August 31, 2020
    First Draft

    R.L. Maizes on Internalizing the Pain and Feelings of Animals

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   August 31, 2020
    Behind the Mic

    Behind the Mic: On Empire of Wild by Cherie Dimaline, Read by Michelle St. John

    By Behind the Mic   August 31, 2020
    Bookable

    Raven Leilani: How Much Are You Willing to Struggle?

    By Bookable   August 28, 2020
    New Books Network

    Edward Farmer on Capturing Greenwood, Mississippi in Fiction

    By New Books Network  August 28, 2020
    Craft

    The New Seduction of an Old Literary Crime Classic

    By Eugen Bacon  August 27, 2020
    Mighty SONG Writers

    Devon Gilfillian Wants You to Write For You

    By Literary Hub  August 26, 2020
    Thresholds

    Rachel Eliza Griffiths on Turning Her Work Towards Herself

    By Thresholds   August 26, 2020
    WMFA

    Lisa Ko on Fictionalizing
    Real Life

    By WMFA   August 26, 2020
    Nature Writing

    Helen Macdonald: The Things I Tell Myself When I’m Writing About Nature

    By Helen Macdonald  August 25, 2020
    AI

    On the Difficulty of Finding a Distinct Human Voice for
    an AI Heroine

    By Ros Anderson  August 25, 2020
    Motherhood

    A Conversation About Childcare, Self-Expectations, and the Fragility of American Systems

    By Literary Hub  August 24, 2020
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