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How Important is the First Draft to Your Novel?

How Important is the First Draft to Your Novel?

Some People Revise, Some People Write

By Sandra Scofield | December 12, 2017

William H. Gass's Advice for Writers:

William H. Gass's Advice for Writers: "You Have to be Grimly Determined."

1924-2017

By Emily Temple | December 7, 2017

On Book Publishing's Drinking Culture

On Book Publishing's Drinking Culture

What If We Didn't Drink at Every Single Event?

By Szilvia Molnar | December 6, 2017

The Ghosts of Literary Greatness That Forever Haunt Paris

The Ghosts of Literary Greatness That Forever Haunt Paris

From Balzac to Max Jacob, a Pilgrimage to Bygone Genius

By Peter Wortsman | December 5, 2017

On Our Love-Hate Relationship with Punctuation

On Our Love-Hate Relationship with Punctuation

Why So Much Anger for the Semicolon?

By Stephen Spector | December 5, 2017

Love and Death at the Library with the Astro Poets

Love and Death at the Library with the Astro Poets

"I had that nervous date feeling, like you were all a giant Earth sign”

By Kyle Lucia Wu | December 1, 2017

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How I Turned My Discarded Novel Drafts Into an AI

By Kirsten Menger-Anderson | November 30, 2017

Inside Vladimir Nabokov's Dream Journal

By Vladimir Nabokov | November 30, 2017

Encountering My Son's Older Doppelganger

By Ashley Hay | November 30, 2017

James Salter: Why I Write

James Salter: Why I Write

An American Master on the Origins of His Craft

By James Salter | November 29, 2017

5 Reasons Why a Writer Should Move to Tacoma

5 Reasons Why a Writer Should Move to Tacoma

From Natural Beauty to Bookstore Cats, We'll Probably Relocate to Washington

By Renee Simms | November 29, 2017

The Dangerous Lure of Writing For White Readers in an MFA

The Dangerous Lure of Writing For White Readers in an MFA

Aisha Sabatini Sloan Wonders About the Work She Might Have Done...

By Aisha Sabatini Sloan | November 28, 2017

How 11 Writers Organize Their Personal Libraries

How 11 Writers Organize Their Personal Libraries

You can't put Pynchon next to Plato (Unless They're Both Pink)

By Emily Temple | November 21, 2017

Adrian McKinty Tries to Get Some Writing Done in Kafka's Old Office

Adrian McKinty Tries to Get Some Writing Done in Kafka's Old Office

On Literary Osmosis and the Perils of Trying to Write in Famous Places

By Adrian McKinty | November 21, 2017

See the Detailed Diagrams Kathy Acker Drew of Her Dreams

See the Detailed Diagrams Kathy Acker Drew of Her Dreams

Two Dream Maps from Blood and Guts in High School

By Literary Hub | November 20, 2017

Garth Risk Hallberg on Updating His Debut Novella—10 Years Later

Garth Risk Hallberg on Updating His Debut Novella—10 Years Later

A Field Guide to the North American Family, then and now

By Garth Risk Hallberg | November 17, 2017

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