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How a First Novel About America’s Vanished Earth Took 6 Years to Write and 30 Years to Plan

Lydia Conklin on Writing Residencies and the Invaluable Gift of Permission

Secrets of the Book Designer: On Typography, Painting, and Finding That Single Visual Moment

David Yoon on How to Cultivate Creative Endurance

On Setting YA Aside to Write a Novel for Adults

Maggie Shipstead on Dealing with Mistakes in Writing

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The Simple Writing Prompt That Launched R. Cathey Daniels' Debut Novel

Cheryl Collins Isaac on Writing About Ballet, and the Intersection of Beauty and Pain

Digging Around in the Dirt: What Gardening Can Teach Writers

Why Elif Batuman’s Been Thinking About “Compulsive Heterosexuality”

In Defense of the Literary Happily Ever After

A Poetics of Risk: On Publishing My Debut Novel in My 60s

Sarah Ruhl Tries to Look at Grief Through the Lens of Form

Jon Mooallem Writes in the Morning (Before the World Snuffs Out His Brief Glimmer of Positivity)

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