• Craft and Advice

    Literary History

    Reading the First Drafts of
    Anna Karenina

    By Bob Blaisdell  August 6, 2020
    Mighty SONG Writers

    WATCH: Jazz Pianist Marcus Roberts Get the Blues and Talks Musical Influences

    By Literary Hub  August 5, 2020
    The Hub

    “Too much exercise!” Read Flaubert’s (very harsh) writing advice for Guy de Maupassant.

    By Emily Temple  August 3, 2020
    Nonfiction

    A Taxonomy of Nonfiction;
    Or the Pleasures of Precision

    By Karen Babine  August 3, 2020
    Publishing

    My Novel’s Heroine is Doing Better in the Publishing World Than I Did

    By Ellen Feldman  July 31, 2020
    Mighty SONG Writers

    WATCH: Amanda Shires with Jason Isbell on Writing Advice, Favorite Teachers (and a Song or Two)

    By Literary Hub  July 29, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    Is This the End of Writing in Cafés?

    By Emily Temple  July 28, 2020
    Publishing

    How to Write an Email Well Enough to Land a Book Deal

    By Anne Trubek  July 28, 2020
    The Writing Life

    To Live Alone in the Woods and Write

    By Melissa Faliveno  July 27, 2020
    5 Questions

    Byron Lane on Being Carrie Fisher’s Personal Assistant

    By Literary Hub  July 27, 2020
    Nazi Germany

    Learning to Decipher My Father’s Past in Nazi Germany

    By L. Annette Binder  July 24, 2020
    Craft

    How Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure Taught Me to Write

    By Lucie Britsch  July 23, 2020
    On Poetry

    On Exploiting the Labor of a Dear Friend, Who is Also a Poet

    By Rebecca Wolff  July 23, 2020
    Twins

    A Genealogy of Twins: On Identity and Projected Lives

    By Larry Watson  July 22, 2020
    Publishing

    A Love Letter to Developmental Editors

    By R.L. Maizes  July 22, 2020
    Palestine

    To Be the Poet of Troy:
    An Interview with Mosab Abu Toha by Philip Metres

    By Philip Metres  July 22, 2020
    Poetry

    Rumaan Alam and Jameson Fitzpatrick on Sex, Poetry, and Textiles

    By Literary Hub  July 21, 2020
    Writer's block

    How I Cured My Writer’s Block With Techno

    By Stan Parish  July 21, 2020
    Politics

    How to Write a Timely Novel in a World That Won’t Stop Changing

    By David James Poissant  July 20, 2020
    Storytelling

    On the Igbo Art of Storytelling

    By Ikechukwu Ogbu  July 17, 2020
    The Hub

    On Lydia Davis’s birthday, read her advice on language, writing from reality, and more.

    By Corinne Segal  July 15, 2020
    Love

    On Falling in Love with Your Characters

    By Sarah Gerard  July 14, 2020
    Reading

    Reading Every Unread Book on My Bookshelf During the Pandemic

    By Angelica Baker  July 13, 2020
    Genre

    On Being a Young Reader Attracted to the Darkest
    Possible Stories

    By Estelle Laure  July 13, 2020
    Trauma

    Veronica Esposito on the Book That Changed Her Life

    By Veronica Esposito  July 9, 2020
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