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Reading the Unpublished Novel My Mother Took<br> 30 Years to Write

Reading the Unpublished Novel My Mother Took
30 Years to Write

Caroline Scott on Realizing an Unlikely Family Dream

By Caroline Scott | December 5, 2019

The Impostor Poets of Iceland Issue a Manifesto

The Impostor Poets of Iceland Issue a Manifesto

"Critics still don’t entirely know what to do with us."

By Literary Hub | December 4, 2019

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

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

By Jonathan Miles | December 2, 2019

How to Throw a Shower for a Novel

By Caroline Louise Walker | November 27, 2019

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

Teaching High Schoolers to Talk Equally About Joy and Pain

Nick Ripatrazone Speaks to Teacher Catherine Reed

By Nick Ripatrazone | November 22, 2019

Dorothy Allison on the Necessity of Making Readers Uncomfortable

Dorothy Allison on the Necessity of Making Readers Uncomfortable

"You have to give up wanting to please."

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

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