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Maggie Smith on How to Revise Poems Without Losing the Initial Spark

Maggie Smith on How to Revise Poems Without Losing the Initial Spark

“If a poem is a machine made of words, it only runs as well as the words we choose to build it.”

By Maggie Smith | July 27, 2021

The Benefits of People-Watching: How My Weird Subway Ritual Became a Storytelling Device

The Benefits of People-Watching: How My Weird Subway Ritual Became a Storytelling Device

Nora Zelevansky on Letting Daily Observations Spark the Imagination and Inform Her Writing

By Nora Zelevansky | July 27, 2021

Alix Ohlin on Navigating the Rich Literary Territory of Dysfunctional Family Dynamics

Alix Ohlin on Navigating the Rich Literary Territory of Dysfunctional Family Dynamics

The Author of We Want What We Want Talks to Jane Ciabattari

By Jane Ciabattari | July 27, 2021

WATCH: Quan Huynh on Finding Freedom From Behind Bars

WATCH: Quan Huynh on Finding Freedom From Behind Bars

Introducing the New Video Series Authors in the Tent, Hosted by Ona Russell

By The Virtual Book Channel | July 27, 2021

Alix Ohlin on How to Map the Shape of Your Short Story

Alix Ohlin on How to Map the Shape of Your Short Story

The Author of We Want What We Want Tries to Find the Shape of Things in Alice Munro, Ocean Vuong, and More

By Alix Ohlin | July 26, 2021

Meg Tilly on the Crossover Between Acting in Thrillers and Writing Them

Meg Tilly on the Crossover Between Acting in Thrillers and Writing Them

From the History of Literature with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | July 26, 2021

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By The Virtual Book Channel | July 26, 2021

WATCH: A. Natasha Joukovsky in Conversation with Lauren Oyler

By The Virtual Book Channel | July 23, 2021

Writing a Fictionalized Apocalypse Does Not Prepare You For a Real One

By Geoff Rodkey | July 23, 2021

Zadie Smith on Reading While You Write

Zadie Smith on Reading While You Write

How Writers Speak to One Another Across Time and Space

By Zadie Smith | July 23, 2021

On <em>Freaks and Geeks</em> and Finding My Voice: How Pop Culture Shaped My Poetry

On Freaks and Geeks and Finding My Voice: How Pop Culture Shaped My Poetry

Matt Mitchell Builds His Own Intersex Canon

By Matt Mitchell | July 22, 2021

Why Yaa Gyasi Wants Us to Remember the Brain Is an Organ

Why Yaa Gyasi Wants Us to Remember the Brain Is an Organ

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | July 22, 2021

Native Comedian Adrianne Chalepah Against Pandering to White Audiences

Native Comedian Adrianne Chalepah Against Pandering to White Audiences

This Week from the Book Dreams Podcast

By Book Dreams | July 22, 2021

Reginald Dwayne Betts on Living Between the Poles of Yale-Educated Lawyer and Prison-Educated Poet

Reginald Dwayne Betts on Living Between the Poles of Yale-Educated Lawyer and Prison-Educated Poet

In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | July 21, 2021

Rivka Galchen on Her Instinct to Abandon Projects

Rivka Galchen on Her Instinct to Abandon Projects

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on the Thresholds Podcast

By Thresholds | July 21, 2021

8 storytelling tips all writers could learn from the legendary Zola Twitter thread turned hit movie.

8 storytelling tips all writers could learn from the legendary Zola Twitter thread turned hit movie.

By Vanessa Willoughby | July 20, 2021

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