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What Silent Film and Found Photographs Can Show Us About Writing

What Silent Film and Found Photographs Can Show Us About Writing

Maria Romasco Moore on What She Learned From the "Kingdom of Shadows"

By Maria Romasco Moore | November 26, 2018

For the Virtues I Have Acquired as a Librarian, I Am Truly Thankful

For the Virtues I Have Acquired as a Librarian, I Am Truly Thankful

Kristen Arnett Has Learned Patience (and Some Other Things)

By Kristen Arnett | November 21, 2018

Why Have Writers Neglected Elderly Lovers?

Why Have Writers Neglected Elderly Lovers?

On Desire and Longing Later in Life

By Susan Gubar | November 21, 2018

The Pugnacious Outlaw Women Behind My Protagonist

The Pugnacious Outlaw Women Behind My Protagonist

From Hellcat Maggie to the Great Sandwina, Eight Women Who Defied Their Era

By Katrina Carrasco | November 20, 2018

Writing Women's Pain: A Roundtable

Writing Women's Pain: A Roundtable

Part One of a Conversation with Alethea Black, Abby Norman,
Esme Weijun Wang and More

By Literary Hub | November 19, 2018

Jonathan Franzen's 10 Rules for Novelists

Jonathan Franzen's 10 Rules for Novelists

Number Eight Just Makes Us Sad

By Jonathan Franzen | November 15, 2018

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You Can’t Rely on Inspiration: Essential Writing Advice from J.G. Ballard

By Emily Temple | November 15, 2018

When a Story is Best Told Backwards

By Samantha Harvey | November 15, 2018

Herman Melville: How to Promote Your Future Classic About Whales

By Herman Melville | November 14, 2018

Reading Across America: Literature and Community in Sin City

Reading Across America: Literature and Community in Sin City

Kayla Dean on Neon Lit, a Grad Student-Run Reading Series in Las Vegas

By Kayla Dean | November 14, 2018

Advice from the NBA 5 Under 35 Honorees About Writing a <em>Second</em> Book

Advice from the NBA 5 Under 35 Honorees About Writing a Second Book

Take Your Second Book Seriously Before There Is One

By Corinne Segal | November 13, 2018

George Saunders on the Best Writing Advice He's Received

George Saunders on the Best Writing Advice He's Received

Everybody's Favorite Literary Uncle Also Loves Gogol

By Literary Hub | November 13, 2018

Kay Eldredge Salter: My Husband's Choice to Be a Writer Was the Hardest of His Life

Kay Eldredge Salter: My Husband's Choice to Be a Writer Was the Hardest of His Life

On the Notes and Drafts of James Salter

By Kay Eldredge Salter | November 13, 2018

Poetry is Infinite: A Conversation with Jeffrey Schultz

Poetry is Infinite: A Conversation with Jeffrey Schultz

"The poem should reveal an image of what is beyond linguistic expression."

By Peter Mishler | November 13, 2018

See Oscar Wilde's Handwritten Edits to <em>The Picture of Dorian Gray</em>

See Oscar Wilde's Handwritten Edits to The Picture of Dorian Gray

Did Wilde Self-Censor the Earliest Version of His Only Novel?

By Literary Hub | November 9, 2018

If You Have These Traits You Might Be a Writer

If You Have These Traits You Might Be a Writer

Karen E. Bender Tries to Answer a Very Difficult Question

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