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Helen Oyeyemi Finds the World of Her Novel on the Train

On the Bruce Springsteen Song That Reinvigorated My Writing

On Finding the Balance Between Solitude and Community at an MFA Program

Gina Frangello: The Case Against Self-Flagellation in Memoir

Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney on First Drafts and Battling Writer’s Block

K.M. Szpara on Borrowing from Nietzsche to Title His
New Novel

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Carol Edgarian: We Write from Our Own Urgency, Our Own Questions

The Unique Pleasures of Letter-Writing in a Era of Impulsive Interaction

Melissa Febos on How Patriarchy and Capitalism Conspire Against Women

The Addict as Archaeologist: Telling the Hard Stories of Family Tragedy

How Do Writers Without Access to Books Develop a Craft?

Jo Ann Beard: What We're Writing When We Write Personal Essays

Inside the Long Friendship of James Merrill and
Elizabeth Bishop

This Must Be the Place: On the Transcendent Refuge of the Musical Past

Why I Decided to Write Fiction and Publish a Debut Novel
in My 80s

The Anxiety of Influence: On the Few Books I Was Able to Read While Writing My Own

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