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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

Learning to Write Characters Who Make Me Feel Less Alone

Learning to Write Characters Who Make Me Feel Less Alone

Rebekah Frumkin on How We Default to the White Male Perspective

By Rafael Frumkin | May 31, 2018

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

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

Aja Gabel on Giving Up the Cello and Focusing on Writing

By Aja Gabel | May 30, 2018

West Virginia Lit: Behold the Travelin' Appalachians Revue

West Virginia Lit: Behold the Travelin' Appalachians Revue

Reading Across America Heads to the Mountains

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

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Where Hemingway Went to Write, After Partying in Venice

By Andrea Di Robilant | May 29, 2018

What If I'm Just a Minor Writer?

By Karl Taro Greenfeld | May 24, 2018

The Best Ways to Read Over the Summer

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

Dear Rick Moody: How Do I Accept My Illness and My Inability to Write?

Dear Rick Moody: How Do I Accept My Illness and My Inability to Write?

On Writing as a Field of Communications and Expressions of Self

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A Close Reading of <em>True Grit</em>'s Perfect First Paragraph

A Close Reading of True Grit's Perfect First Paragraph

Charles Portis’s Classic as an Object Lesson in Creating Character

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Be a Better Reader: Get Outside Your Genre Comfort Zone

Be a Better Reader: Get Outside Your Genre Comfort Zone

On the Dangers of Narrowly Marketed Book Categories

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William Trevor in America

William Trevor in America

Patrick Cox on his father's travels across the USA

By Patrick Cox | May 15, 2018

On the Strange, Artistic World of Marfa, Texas

On the Strange, Artistic World of Marfa, Texas

Twilight Zone Episode"">"Whenever I’m in Marfa I Feel like I’m in a Twilight Zone Episode"

By Lawrence Wright | May 14, 2018

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