• Craft and Advice

    Expert opinion

    A Selection of Virginia Woolf’s Most Savage Insults

    By Emily Temple  October 12, 2017
    Essay

    How Paris Turned Me Into a Writer

    By Piu Eatwell  October 12, 2017
    Writer Diary

    Katherine Mansfield on the Thrilling Joy of Creation

    By Emily Temple  October 11, 2017
    Did you know?

    137 Writers and the Words They’re Best Known For

    By Kaveh Akbar  October 11, 2017
    Advice

    Watch Karl Ove Knausgaard’s Lecture: Why I Write

    By Literary Hub  October 5, 2017
    Deep Dive

    Why Does Literature Have So Little to Say About Illness?

    By Meghan O'Rourke  October 5, 2017
    Deep Dive

    The Pure Pleasure of Reading Lolita‘s First 100 Pages

    By Hanya Yanagihara  October 4, 2017
    Archives

    Why Digital Note-Taking Will Never Replace the Physical Journal

    By Bradford Morrow  October 3, 2017
    Archives

    Read William S. Burroughs’s Hate Letter to Truman Capote

    By Emily Temple  October 2, 2017
    Personal Essay

    I Couldn’t Read While Grieving, Until I Found These Books

    By Veronica Henry  September 29, 2017
    Archives

    Carson McCullers on Suicide, Psychiatry and the Mind of the Artist

    By Emily Temple  September 29, 2017
    Advice

    When I’m Writing Fiction, I Cannot Read It

    By Anne Korkeakivi  September 28, 2017
    Advice

    5 Reasons Why a Writer Should Move to Toronto

    By Deidre Olsen  September 28, 2017
    Op-Ed

    What We Can Learn from “Ordinary” Nazis

    By Jessica Shattuck  September 27, 2017
    History

    Returning Antoine de Saint-Exupéry to the Skies

    By Douglas R. Dechow and Anna Leahy  September 26, 2017
    Advice

    20 Pieces of Writing Advice from William Faulkner

    By Emily Temple  September 25, 2017
    Essay

    What Quilting and Embroidery Can Teach us About Narrative Form

    By Sarah Minor  September 22, 2017
    Happy Birthday

    12 Literary Writers on Stephen King’s Influence

    By Emily Temple  September 21, 2017
    Personal Essay

    How A Single Rosh Hashanah Dinner Sparked 10 Years of Research

    By Devin Murphy  September 21, 2017
    Deep Dive

    Imagining the Future of Nigeria: Accessing Africa Through Sci-Fi

    By Deji Bryce Olukotun  September 18, 2017
    Essay

    Writing My Trauma With a Little Help From a Jason Bourne Car Chase

    By Winnie M. Li  September 18, 2017
    Personal Essay

    Evil Enters From the Left: On Pantomime and the Classic Stage

    By Elly Griffiths  September 18, 2017
    Advice

    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on How to Write and How to Read

    By Emily Temple  September 15, 2017
    The Art of Editing

    7 Writers Who Were Also Editors (And the Books They Edited)

    By Emily Temple  September 14, 2017
    Archives

    When Roald Dahl’s Editor Decided He Was Too Much of a Prick To Publish

    By Emily Temple  September 13, 2017
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