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Ursula K. Le Guin's Best Life Advice

Ursula K. Le Guin's Best Life Advice

America's Greatest Writer Has Died

By Emily Temple | January 24, 2018

10 Other Literary Writers We'd Love to See with Weekly Columns

10 Other Literary Writers We'd Love to See with Weekly Columns

Who Will Follow Elena Ferrante? (Rabih Alameddine? Maggie Nelson? Please?)

By Emily Temple | January 23, 2018

How Being a Librarian Makes Me a Better Writer

How Being a Librarian Makes Me a Better Writer

Xhenet Aliu on the Fine Art of Controlled Vocabularies

By Xhenet Aliu | January 23, 2018

Great Advice From 25 Writing Manuals by Famous Authors

Great Advice From 25 Writing Manuals by Famous Authors

Q: What’s the key to suspense? A: I’ll tell you later.

By Emily Temple | January 22, 2018

How to Write a #MeToo Story

How to Write a #MeToo Story

Alison B. Hart's 12 Steps, From Beginning to End

By Alison B. Hart | January 19, 2018

How Alice B. Toklas Found her Voice Through Food

How Alice B. Toklas Found her Voice Through Food

On Writing Her Own Cookbook, After Gertrude Stein

By Justin Spring | January 18, 2018

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I Am Different Now from the Person I Wrote in My Memoir

By Molly Caro May | January 18, 2018

Read Susan Sontag's Love Letter to Borges, Written 10 Years After His Death

By Emily Temple | January 16, 2018

Who Gets to Write About Gentrification?

By Naima Coster | January 16, 2018

Dear Rick Moody: Half My Family Knows the Truth About Me

Dear Rick Moody: Half My Family Knows the Truth About Me

A Son Wonders About Coming Out to His Mother

By Rick Moody | January 12, 2018

Do Audio Books Count As Reading?

Do Audio Books Count As Reading?

And Other Pernicious Questions That Arise for Visually Impaired Book-Lovers

By James Tate Hill | January 11, 2018

The Child-Poet Genius of Brooklyn

The Child-Poet Genius of Brooklyn

On the Prodigious Poetic Talents of Nathalia Crane

By Ann Hulbert | January 9, 2018

If It Wasn't For My Corporate Office Job, I Couldn't Be a Novelist

If It Wasn't For My Corporate Office Job, I Couldn't Be a Novelist

Jillian Medoff Would Rather Talk About Sex Than Reveal How Much Her Novels Made

By Jillian Medoff | January 8, 2018

Christopher J. Yates Gave Himself 10 Years to Publish a Novel

Christopher J. Yates Gave Himself 10 Years to Publish a Novel

"The rejections pile grew twenty-tall, thirty-high. . ."

By Christopher J. Yates | January 5, 2018

How Fetishizing 'Craft' Can Get in the Way of a Good Poem

How Fetishizing 'Craft' Can Get in the Way of a Good Poem

Michael Bazzett Worries About the Imagining Animal

By Michael Bazzett | December 19, 2017

Making the Jump from Stage to Page

Making the Jump from Stage to Page

Playwright-Turned-Novelist Kia Corthron on the Varieties of Storytelling

By Kia Corthron | December 15, 2017

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