What Your Draft (and Its Problems) Says About You

What Your Draft (and Its Problems) Says About You

Helen Betya Rubinstein on Finding Clarity in Confusion

By Helen Betya Rubinstein | December 4, 2019

The Truest Eye: Wisdom and Vision from Toni Morrison

The Truest Eye: Wisdom and Vision from Toni Morrison

Selected Quotations from an American Icon

By Toni Morrison | December 3, 2019

What Was the First Book You Fell in Love With?

What Was the First Book You Fell in Love With?

The Center for Fiction’s 2019 First Novel Prize Authors Weigh In

By Literary Hub | December 2, 2019

Lore Segal: A (Complicated) Love Letter to Editors

Lore Segal: A (Complicated) Love Letter to Editors

On Syntax, Rewrites, Second-Guesses, and Grace

By Lore Segal | December 2, 2019

Larry Brown's Long and Tortured Struggle to Make Himself Into a Writer

Larry Brown's Long and Tortured Struggle to Make Himself Into a Writer

Jonathan Miles Remembers His Friend

By Jonathan Miles | December 2, 2019

How to Throw a Shower for a Novel

How to Throw a Shower for a Novel

Caroline Louise Walker on Celebrating a Very Important New Arrival

By Caroline Louise Walker | November 27, 2019

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How We See Iran: A Brief History of Fictions at a Distance

By Ali Araghi | November 26, 2019

Teaching High Schoolers to Talk Equally About Joy and Pain

By Nick Ripatrazone | November 22, 2019

Dorothy Allison on the Necessity of Making Readers Uncomfortable

By Editors of Garden and Gun | November 22, 2019

What the Retelling of Myths Reveals of the Teller

What the Retelling of Myths Reveals of the Teller

Jennifer S. Cheng on Writing about the Moon Goddess Chang'E

By Jennifer S. Cheng | November 20, 2019

Why get an MFA when you have free advice from Wikihow's

Why get an MFA when you have free advice from Wikihow's "How to Write" section?

By Jonny Diamond | November 18, 2019

In Order to Write, I Had to Break a Family Curse

In Order to Write, I Had to Break a Family Curse

Amanda Yates Garcia on Witchcraft and Writer's Block

By Amanda Yates Garcia | November 15, 2019

Lessons in worldbuilding from N. K. Jemisin (plus a preview of her next book).

Lessons in worldbuilding from N. K. Jemisin (plus a preview of her next book).

By Aaron Robertson | November 13, 2019

Broken Heart? Immanuel Kant is Here to Help

Broken Heart? Immanuel Kant is Here to Help

Sometimes, the Best Advice Comes From an Old Dead German

By Marie Robert | November 13, 2019

The Woman Who Brought Dostoevsky and Chekhov to English Readers

The Woman Who Brought Dostoevsky and Chekhov to English Readers

Sara Wheeler on Constance Garnett and the Problem
of Era-Specific Translations

By Sara Wheeler | November 12, 2019

Lydia Davis: Ten of My Recommendations for Good Writing Habits

Lydia Davis: Ten of My Recommendations for Good Writing Habits

Advice for Writers on Editing, Revising, and Taking Notes

By Lydia Davis | November 12, 2019

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