How What I've Learned as an Actor Can Apply to Storytelling

How What I've Learned as an Actor Can Apply to Storytelling

Brett Paesel on Letting Emotional Logic Do the Work

By Brett Paesel | April 12, 2019

When a First-Person Narrator Sneaks Into Your Story

When a First-Person Narrator Sneaks Into Your Story

Jennifer duBois on the Emergent 'I'

By Jennifer duBois | April 11, 2019

When a Reader Figures Out What Your Book is <em>Actually</em> About

When a Reader Figures Out What Your Book is Actually About

Marcia Butler on Coming to Terms with Her Lifelong Dream Coming True

By Marcia Butler | April 10, 2019

Viet Thanh Nguyen: How Not to Bore Your Audience at a Reading

Viet Thanh Nguyen: How Not to Bore Your Audience at a Reading

Channel Obama. Perform. Drink if You Must.

By Viet Thanh Nguyen | April 9, 2019

Even My Imaginary Male Muses<br> Don't Measure Up

Even My Imaginary Male Muses
Don't Measure Up

Jen Mediano Can't Help But Be a Little Disappointed

By Jen Mediano | April 9, 2019

The Best Argument is a Good Book: Writing Advice from Saul Bellow

The Best Argument is a Good Book: Writing Advice from Saul Bellow

"There is such a thing as overcapitalizing the A in artist."

By Emily Temple | April 5, 2019

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • This Is Where the Serpent Lives
  • Lost Lambs
  • Winter: The Story of a Season
  • The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else's Game
  • The Hitch
  • Fly, Wild Swans: My Mother, Myself and China

What John Hughes Taught Me About
the Importance of a Name

By Sloane Tanen | April 4, 2019

Unsilencing the Writing Workshop

By Beth Nguyen | April 3, 2019

Jenni Fagan: "If a Poem Wants Written at 3 am I Get Up."

By Jenni Fagan | April 3, 2019

Why, Exactly, Do We Have Subtitles on Books?

Why, Exactly, Do We Have Subtitles on Books?

Mary Laura Philpott, Out Here Asking the Tough Questions

By Mary Laura Philpott | April 2, 2019

Why Don't More Writers Become<br> Public School Teachers?

Why Don't More Writers Become
Public School Teachers?

Belle Boggs on a Career in the Classroom

By Belle Boggs | April 2, 2019

How to Cuss Like No One's Listening

How to Cuss Like No One's Listening

Katherine Dunn on the Importance of Specificity in Swearing

By Katherine Dunn | April 1, 2019

Working Mothers, Let Go of Your Guilt

Working Mothers, Let Go of Your Guilt

Polly Rosenwaike on Motherhood, a Job Like Any Other

By Polly Rosenwaike | April 1, 2019

An Afternoon at María Gainza's<br> Buenos Aires Home

An Afternoon at María Gainza's
Buenos Aires Home

Talking About Art, Criticism, and Autofiction

By Nathan Scott McNamara | March 31, 2019

5 Reasons a Writer Should <br>Move to London

5 Reasons a Writer Should
Move to London

No, Not the Small City in Southern Ontario

By Christine Ro | March 29, 2019

Maybe Becoming a Poet Just for the Praise Was Not a Good Move

Maybe Becoming a Poet Just for the Praise Was Not a Good Move

Jessie Gaynor on the Perpetual Allure (and Trap) of Validation

By Jessie Gaynor | March 27, 2019

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