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How Too Much Research Can Ruin Your Novel

How Too Much Research Can Ruin Your Novel

Nick Dybek on Trying to Learn Everything About WWI

By Nick Dybek | June 11, 2018

Surviving a Winter in the Rockies in the Name of Writing

Surviving a Winter in the Rockies in the Name of Writing

Life in a Horse Barn at 8,000 Feet

By Karen Auvinen | June 8, 2018

The Truth About Fiction vs. Nonfiction

The Truth About Fiction vs. Nonfiction

Aminatta Forna, from Reporter to Novelist, and Everything in Between

By Aminatta Forna | June 7, 2018

14 Famous Writers on Whether or Not to Have Kids

14 Famous Writers on Whether or Not to Have Kids

Because Everybody Has an Opinion

By Emily Temple | June 6, 2018

How Cooking Frees My Mind to Think About Writing

How Cooking Frees My Mind to Think About Writing

Since I Was a Child, I've Been Obsessed with Food in Literature

By Jenna Blum | June 6, 2018

Train-Hopping Gave Me Back My Life

Train-Hopping Gave Me Back My Life

Kai Carlson-Wee Finds Poetry on the Rails

By Kai Carlson-Wee | June 4, 2018

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Learning to Write Characters Who Make Me Feel Less Alone

By Rafael Frumkin | May 31, 2018

The World is Full of Rejections: Find the One That's Right For You

By Aja Gabel | May 30, 2018

West Virginia Lit: Behold the Travelin' Appalachians Revue

By Howard Parsons | May 30, 2018

I Don't Spend Much Time in Nature, But I Love Reading About It

I Don't Spend Much Time in Nature, But I Love Reading About It

Why New Collections From Wendell Berry and Bernd Heinrich Are a Balm

By Bradley Babendir | May 29, 2018

From <em>Star Wars</em> to <em>Lord of the Rings</em>, How to Build a World

From Star Wars to Lord of the Rings, How to Build a World

The Art of Making the Imaginary Seem Real

By A.D. Jameson | May 29, 2018

Where Hemingway Went to Write, After Partying in Venice

Where Hemingway Went to Write, After Partying in Venice

We Could All Use a Quiet, Rustic Island...

By Andrea Di Robilant | May 29, 2018

What If I'm Just a Minor Writer?

What If I'm Just a Minor Writer?

Karl Taro Greenfeld: Not Every Author is Destined for Greatness

By Karl Taro Greenfeld | May 24, 2018

The Best Ways to Read Over the Summer

The Best Ways to Read Over the Summer

Suggestions on What to Read and Where to Do It

By Susan LaTempa | May 24, 2018

Ursula K. Le Guin, Editing to the End

Ursula K. Le Guin, Editing to the End

David Naimon on Collaborating with a Literary Legend

By David Naimon | May 22, 2018

Did Camp Change Me? It Made Me a Liar, Which Is to Say a Novelist

Did Camp Change Me? It Made Me a Liar, Which Is to Say a Novelist

On the Myth-Making Lessons of Summer Camp

By Heather Abel | May 21, 2018

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