• Craft and Advice

    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
    Poets

    Kaveh Akbar: How I Found Poetry in Childhood Prayer

    By Kaveh Akbar  September 12, 2017
    Deep Dive

    The Ways in Which a Novel Can Fail Like a Marriage

    By Josh Weil  September 12, 2017
    What to Read

    The Classes 25 Famous Writers Teach

    By Emily Temple  September 12, 2017
    Memoir

    Can the New York Times’ Modern Love Column Change a Writer’s Life?

    By Andrea Jarrell  September 8, 2017
    Art

    The Magic and Risk of a Handwritten Letter

    By Meghan Forbes  September 7, 2017
    Advice

    How Academics Survive the Writing Grind: Some Anecdotal Advice

    By Helen Sword  September 7, 2017
    Personal Essay

    One Decade, Two Writers, Many Actors, and Finally My Book Became a Movie

    By Mark Haskell Smith  September 7, 2017
    Advice

    N.K. Jemisin on Craft, Advocacy, and Ignoring the Naysayers

    By Emily Temple  September 1, 2017
    Technology

    Where Are the Likes? Coming to Terms with Being a Writer on Social Media

    By Nick Ripatrazone  August 31, 2017
    Advice

    Dear Rick Moody: What Should I Say About My Scars?

    By Rick Moody  August 31, 2017
    Personal Essay

    The Photograph That Helped Me Finish My Book

    By Laura Schenone  August 30, 2017
    Feature

    15 Famous Writers on the Perils of a Formal Education

    By Emily Temple  August 29, 2017
    Thought Experiment

    Why I Made My Main Character a Right Wing Blogger

    By Jonathan Dee  August 28, 2017
    Advice

    Why a Party is a Perfect Literary Device

    By Elizabeth Day  August 25, 2017
    Personal Essay

    I Made a Mistake in My Book and the Internet Went Nuts

    By Rebecca Schuman  August 21, 2017
    Design

    Are We Different Writers When We Move From Longhand to a Screen?

    By James Draney  August 18, 2017
    Deep Dive

    Getting It Right: How to Rebuild Scenes from the Past

    By Benjamin Rachlin  August 18, 2017
    Personal Essay

    Jill Bialosky: The Time I Moved to New York City to Be a Poet

    By Jill Bialosky  August 17, 2017
    Craft

    Fact, Fiction, and When a Novel Crosses the Line

    By Joanna Scott  August 15, 2017
    How to...

    How to Write This Year’s “Definitive Novel” of the East Village in the 1980s

    By Jarett Kobek  August 14, 2017
    Conversations

    Katie Kitamura on Subverting Tropes in A Separation

    By Emily Temple  August 14, 2017
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