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Getting It Right: How to Rebuild Scenes from the Past

Getting It Right: How to Rebuild Scenes from the Past

Benjamin Rachlin Goes Deep on the Research

By Benjamin Rachlin | August 18, 2017

Jill Bialosky: The Time I Moved to New York City to Be a Poet

Jill Bialosky: The Time I Moved to New York City to Be a Poet

On Finding Meaning in Art and Work in the Big City

By Jill Bialosky | August 17, 2017

Fact, Fiction, and When a Novel Crosses the Line

Fact, Fiction, and When a Novel Crosses the Line

Joanna Scott on the Illusive Boundaries of Truth and Literature

By Joanna Scott | August 15, 2017

How to Write This Year’s “Definitive Novel” of the East Village in the 1980s

How to Write This Year’s “Definitive Novel” of the East Village in the 1980s

Jarett Kobek Gives Away His Professional Secrets

By Jarett Kobek | August 14, 2017

Katie Kitamura on Subverting Tropes in <em>A Separation</em>

Katie Kitamura on Subverting Tropes in A Separation

Because All Books Have Dead Women and Tidy Endings

By Emily Temple | August 14, 2017

Writing Just Enough Detail, But Not Too Much

Writing Just Enough Detail, But Not Too Much

Daniel Galera on Finding That Perfect Description

By Daniel Galera | August 14, 2017

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How Pickles Help Me Survive the Horrible, Wonderful Life of a Writer

By Danya Kukafka | August 11, 2017

Charlie Jane Anders on Writing the Future

By Emily Temple | August 10, 2017

Good Memoir Comes From Saying What Can't Be Said

By Emily Temple | August 8, 2017

On the Redemptive Generosity of Artistic Communities

On the Redemptive Generosity of Artistic Communities

How to Find a Little Hope in These Dark Times

By Veronica Esposito | August 8, 2017

Do I Have the Right to Inhabit Another's Mental Illness in Fiction?

Do I Have the Right to Inhabit Another's Mental Illness in Fiction?

Sarah Faber on Writing Her Mother's Life

By Sarah Faber | August 7, 2017

Writers, Protect Your Inner Life

Writers, Protect Your Inner Life

A writing life and a writing career are two separate things

By Lan Samantha Chang | August 7, 2017

What Trying to Finish a Crime Novel Taught Me About Writing

What Trying to Finish a Crime Novel Taught Me About Writing

Jennifer Kitses on Some Hard-Won Lessons from Genre

By Jennifer Kitses | August 4, 2017

So You've Decided to Write: How the Hell Do You Get Paid?

So You've Decided to Write: How the Hell Do You Get Paid?

Once Upon a Time, Writers Made Five Dollars a Word

By Terry McDonell | August 2, 2017

The Weird Stenographer: Sam Shepard on His Long Writing Life

The Weird Stenographer: Sam Shepard on His Long Writing Life

RIP the Great American Playwright

By Emily Temple | August 1, 2017

Why Short Stories?

Why Short Stories?

Jim Shepard on the White Hot Literary Center of America

By Emily Temple | August 1, 2017

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