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How to Keep Track of Your Characters With Index Cards, String, and a Lot of Clothes Pins

How to Keep Track of Your Characters With Index Cards, String, and a Lot of Clothes Pins

Rebecca Sacks on Managing a Cast of Dozens of Imaginary People

By Bee Sacks | February 9, 2021

Joyce Carol Oates Thinks You Should Write Your Heart Out

Joyce Carol Oates Thinks You Should Write Your Heart Out

A Conversation with the Author of American Melancholy: Poems

By Literary Hub | February 9, 2021

Jenny Offill: Everyone’s Always Hoping for Some Kind of Plot

Jenny Offill: Everyone’s Always Hoping for Some Kind of Plot

This Week on So Many Damn Books

By So Many Damn Books | February 9, 2021

When Talking About Poetry Online <br>Goes Very Wrong

When Talking About Poetry Online
Goes Very Wrong

On Ciaran Carson and the Importance of Low-Stakes Conversations in the “Small Back Room”

By Wayne Miller | February 8, 2021

The Greatest Literary Alliance of All Time: You, the Author, and the Character

The Greatest Literary Alliance of All Time: You, the Author, and the Character

Lisa Zeidner Asks Us to Think Deeply About Point of View in Fiction

By Lisa Zeidner | February 8, 2021

Ben Okri on the Strange Magic of Our Preoccupations

Ben Okri on the Strange Magic of Our Preoccupations

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | February 8, 2021

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Of Mobs and Namesakes: Writing the Story of My Infamous Grandfather

By Russell Shorto | February 5, 2021

The Work of Home: Cleaning, Writing, and Communing with Ghosts

By Laura Cronk | February 5, 2021

Rooms of Their Own: Where Some of the Best Women Writers Created Art

By Lauren Marino | February 4, 2021

How Writing a Book Within a Book Saved My Novel

How Writing a Book Within a Book Saved My Novel

K Chess on the Importance Nested Narratives

By K Chess | February 4, 2021

Matthew Salesses on the Two Things a Workshop Can Do Best (and Often Fails Doing at All)

Matthew Salesses on the Two Things a Workshop Can Do Best (and Often Fails Doing at All)

In Conversation with Courtney Balestier on the WMFA Podcast

By WMFA | February 3, 2021

Against the All-Consuming Archetype of ‘Mom’

Against the All-Consuming Archetype of ‘Mom’

Sarah Langan on the Power of Portraying Mothers as
Whole, Flawed People

By Sarah Langan | February 3, 2021

Ayad Akhtar on the Hollowness of American Exceptionalism

Ayad Akhtar on the Hollowness of American Exceptionalism

In Conversation with Paul Holdengräber on The Quarantine Tapes

By The Quarantine Tapes | February 3, 2021

Eileen Myles on Approaching Writing Like a Game of Hearts

Eileen Myles on Approaching Writing Like a Game of Hearts

From the Thresholds Podcast, Hosted by Jordan Kisner

By Thresholds | February 3, 2021

Michael Bible on Writing the Sort of Character Who Would’ve Stormed the Capitol

Michael Bible on Writing the Sort of Character Who Would’ve Stormed the Capitol

In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | February 3, 2021

For Writers Graduating from an MFA During a Pandemic: Read Everything

For Writers Graduating from an MFA During a Pandemic: Read Everything

Paisley Rekdal's Advice for What Might Come Next

By Paisley Rekdal | February 2, 2021

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