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

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

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Where Hemingway Went to Write, After Partying in Venice

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What If I'm Just a Minor Writer?

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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

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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

By Rick Moody | May 21, 2018

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

By Emily Temple | May 18, 2018

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

By Randall Klein | May 18, 2018

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