• Craft and Advice

    Essay

    Fear and Loathing in New England: Lev Grossman Looks Back at His First Novel

    By Lev Grossman  September 20, 2016
    Essay

    Writing Advice from Edward Albee

    By Neil Goldstein Glick  September 20, 2016
    Excerpts

    On the Irresistible Pull of Tidal Metaphors

    By Hugh Aldersey-Williams  September 20, 2016
    Advice

    Dear Rick Moody: Why Do Men Spinster-bait?

    By Rick Moody  September 16, 2016
    Op-Ed

    Alan Moore Goes (Very Very) Big with Jerusalem

    By Joshua Zajdman  September 14, 2016
    Excerpts

    Wrestling With Writer’s Block in the Middle of a Cranberry Bog

    By Rosamund Stone Zander  September 14, 2016
    Starting out

    Why I’m Starting a Publishing House in Romania

    By Elena Marcu  September 14, 2016
    Advice

    How to Be a Writer: 10 Tips from Rebecca Solnit

    By Rebecca Solnit  September 13, 2016
    Feature

    Teddy Wayne is Worried He Might Be a Fraud

    By Teddy Wayne  September 13, 2016
    Design

    Kate Beaton Applies Her Graphic Genius to the Tyranny of Babies

    By Noah Berlatsky  September 13, 2016
    Essay

    How My Grandmother’s Cookbook Made Me a Writer

    By Michelle Brafman  September 13, 2016
    Op-Ed

    How Do We Fix the MFA?

    By KC Trommer  September 12, 2016
    Op-Ed

    Ron Rash on Writing to Bring Out the Dead

    By Ron Rash  September 12, 2016
    Op-Ed

    How Being a Bookseller Made Me a Better Writer

    By Kea Wilson  September 8, 2016
    Conversations

    Interview With a Gatekeeper: Nan Talese

    By Kerri Arsenault  September 7, 2016
    Criticism

    Hitler’s Dog, and Other Problems of Historical Fiction

    By Peter Ho Davies  September 7, 2016
    Essay

    On Writing, Parenthood and Trying to Stay a Little Wild

    By Laura Cronk  September 2, 2016
    The Art of Editing

    The Editor Inside My Head is a Cruel and Demanding S.O.B.

    By Michael Koryta  September 2, 2016
    Archives

    Lucia Berlin: Writing Advice and More in This Never-Before Published Interview

    By Literary Hub  September 1, 2016
    Advice

    How to Reject a Writer, and Other Advice For Editors

    By Terry McDonell  September 1, 2016
    Essay

    Who Gets to Decide What Counts as “English”?

    By Gabrielle Bellot  August 31, 2016
    Essay

    Becoming a Writer Means Becoming a Cliché

    By Odie Lindsey  August 31, 2016
    Talking shop

    Spread the Word: On Small Presses and the Fight for Publicity

    By Ilana Masad  August 30, 2016
    Criticism

    I Love Soap Operas (And They Made Me a Better Writer)

    By Deborah Shapiro  August 29, 2016
    Deep Dive

    How to Write Coincidence the Right Way

    By Alice Mattison  August 26, 2016
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