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6 Famous Writers Injured While Writing

6 Famous Writers Injured While Writing

When Making Stuff is Hazardous to Your Health

By Emily Temple | October 25, 2017

How to Spend a Literary Long Weekend in Boston

How to Spend a Literary Long Weekend in Boston

From a Bar Called Bukowski's to the Oldest Poetry Bookstore in America

By Oset Babur | October 25, 2017

Learning the Hard Way That Writing a Book is Not Like Writing for TV

Learning the Hard Way That Writing a Book is Not Like Writing for TV

Evany Rosen on Assembling Her Own Personal Writers Room

By Evany Rosen | October 25, 2017

At Oslo's House of Literature, a Free Space for Ideas (and Writers)

At Oslo's House of Literature, a Free Space for Ideas (and Writers)

How Can We Make This Kind of Thing Happen in America?

By Kerri Arsenault | October 20, 2017

Jennifer Egan Makes Friends Across Seven Decades (and Countless Letters)

Jennifer Egan Makes Friends Across Seven Decades (and Countless Letters)

The Author of Manhattan Beach on the Intimacy of Historical Research

By Jennifer Egan | October 19, 2017

Black Francis: Ray Bradbury Validated My Desire to Write

Black Francis: Ray Bradbury Validated My Desire to Write

The Front Man of the Pixies on the Writer Who Changed His Life

By Black Francis | October 19, 2017

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • This Is Where the Serpent Lives
  • Lost Lambs
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  • The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else's Game
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  • Fly, Wild Swans: My Mother, Myself and China

A Stroke Made My Mother a Poet, I Merely Transcribed

By Marius Chivu | October 19, 2017

Breaking Good: Why Artists Remake, Experiment, and Smash Tradition

By Anthony Brandt and David Eagleman | October 19, 2017

The Bluebeard Myth is Forever Relevant

By Catherine Burns | October 19, 2017

In Writing, We Get to Be Bolder, Riskier, and More Foolish

In Writing, We Get to Be Bolder, Riskier, and More Foolish

Like Following a Mysterious Whistle into a Canyon in the Dead of Night

By Panio Gianopoulos | October 18, 2017

A Day in the Life of a Freelancer

A Day in the Life of a Freelancer

Lorraine Berry on the Way She Tries to Make a Living

By Lorraine Berry | October 18, 2017

America, Land of the Refugee

America, Land of the Refugee

Betsy Carter Rediscovers the Lives of Her Immigrant Parents

By Betsy Carter | October 16, 2017

Art Inspired by Italo Calvino's <em>Invisible Cities</em>

Art Inspired by Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities

"Elsewhere is a negative mirror."

By Emily Temple | October 13, 2017

A Selection of Virginia Woolf's Most Savage Insults

A Selection of Virginia Woolf's Most Savage Insults

Marmoreal, Uncooked, Inarticulate, Pimpled, Unrefined, Limp

By Emily Temple | October 12, 2017

How Paris Turned Me Into a Writer

How Paris Turned Me Into a Writer

Piu Eatwell Discovers the Ex-Pat Life

By Piu Eatwell | October 12, 2017

Katherine Mansfield on the Thrilling Joy of Creation

Katherine Mansfield on the Thrilling Joy of Creation

and your knees become apples, too?"">"When you paint apples do you feel that your breasts
and your knees become apples, too?"

By Emily Temple | October 11, 2017

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