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The Work of Home: Cleaning, Writing, and Communing with Ghosts

The Work of Home: Cleaning, Writing, and Communing with Ghosts

Laura Cronk Explores How the Pandemic Has Shaped the Meaning of Domesticity

By Laura Cronk | February 5, 2021

Rooms of Their Own: Where Some of the Best Women Writers Created Art

Rooms of Their Own: Where Some of the Best Women Writers Created Art

Lauren Marino on the Spaces of Virginia Woolf, Toni Morrison, and Others

By Lauren Marino | February 4, 2021

How Writing a Book Within a Book Saved My Novel

How Writing a Book Within a Book Saved My Novel

K Chess on the Importance Nested Narratives

By K Chess | February 4, 2021

Matthew Salesses on the Two Things a Workshop Can Do Best (and Often Fails Doing at All)

Matthew Salesses on the Two Things a Workshop Can Do Best (and Often Fails Doing at All)

In Conversation with Courtney Balestier on the WMFA Podcast

By WMFA | February 3, 2021

Against the All-Consuming Archetype of ‘Mom’

Against the All-Consuming Archetype of ‘Mom’

Sarah Langan on the Power of Portraying Mothers as
Whole, Flawed People

By Sarah Langan | February 3, 2021

Ayad Akhtar on the Hollowness of American Exceptionalism

Ayad Akhtar on the Hollowness of American Exceptionalism

In Conversation with Paul Holdengräber on The Quarantine Tapes

By The Quarantine Tapes | February 3, 2021

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Eileen Myles on Approaching Writing Like a Game of Hearts

By Thresholds | February 3, 2021

Michael Bible on Writing the Sort of Character Who Would’ve Stormed the Capitol

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | February 3, 2021

For Writers Graduating from an MFA During a Pandemic: Read Everything

By Paisley Rekdal | February 2, 2021

Chang-rae Lee: Bourbon Doesn’t Work For Writer’s Block

Chang-rae Lee: Bourbon Doesn’t Work For Writer’s Block

A Conversation with the Author of My Year Abroad

By Literary Hub | February 2, 2021

Why Nature Always Makes for the Best Antagonist

Why Nature Always Makes for the Best Antagonist

Susan Meissner Recommends Ten Books Set Against Disaster

By Susan Meissner | February 1, 2021

Mateo Askaripour on the Toll of Racism in the Workplace

Mateo Askaripour on the Toll of Racism in the Workplace

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | February 1, 2021

Leave No Trace: Can We Ever Enjoy the Wilderness Without Destroying It?

Leave No Trace: Can We Ever Enjoy the Wilderness Without Destroying It?

Todd Robert Petersen on the Impossible Balancing of Preservation, Leisure, and Weirdness

By Todd Robert Petersen | January 29, 2021

What Fiction Can Teach Journalists: A Reading List From Maurice Chammah

What Fiction Can Teach Journalists: A Reading List From Maurice Chammah

Using Literary Techniques to Write True—and Urgent—Stories

By Maurice Chammah | January 29, 2021

‘Why are you making up a story?’ Édouard Louis on the Ghosts at His Writing Table

‘Why are you making up a story?’ Édouard Louis on the Ghosts at His Writing Table

In Conversation with Nadifa Mohamed on How to Proceed

By How to Proceed | January 29, 2021

Pam Mandel on Discovering the True-to-Life YA Story She Was Meant to Tell: Her Own

Pam Mandel on Discovering the True-to-Life YA Story She Was Meant to Tell: Her Own

In Conversation with Sari Botton on Personal Space

By The Virtual Book Channel | January 29, 2021

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