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Allen Ginsberg's Definition of the Beat Generation

Allen Ginsberg's Definition of the Beat Generation

From the Poet's Lecture on How a Generation Got Its Name

By Allen Ginsberg | April 20, 2017

From Mukasonga to Alexievich, We Need Writers Who Bear Witness

From Mukasonga to Alexievich, We Need Writers Who Bear Witness

Scott Esposito on Staying Clear-Eyed in Dark Times

By Veronica Esposito | April 18, 2017

Something More than Correctness: On Teaching Grace Paley's Essays

Something More than Correctness: On Teaching Grace Paley's Essays

"It’s not their own shame that holds young writers back; it’s ours"

By Scott Korb | April 18, 2017

Mónica de la Torre on Corporatese and the Oppression of Fancy Chairs

Mónica de la Torre on Corporatese and the Oppression of Fancy Chairs

Poets on Life and Craft

By Peter Mishler | April 17, 2017

Helping My First Generation Students Take Pride in their Personal Essays

Helping My First Generation Students Take Pride in their Personal Essays

"I feel lucky to be able to witness the telling of these lives"

By Sonia Taitz | April 13, 2017

David Vann:

David Vann: "If I Miss a Single Morning of Writing, It Changes My Novel"

On Creative Routine and Writing Eight Books in Eight Years

By David Vann | April 13, 2017

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The Lives of the Poets Aren't All That Cinematic

By Lucy Scholes | April 13, 2017

Lidia Yuknavitch: I Will Always Inhabit the Water

By Lidia Yuknavitch | April 12, 2017

Louise Erdrich: Among the Living and the Dead in the Turtle Mountains

By Louise Erdrich | April 12, 2017

Thomas McGuane Remembers His Friend, Jim Harrison

Thomas McGuane Remembers His Friend, Jim Harrison

"In the end, Jim Harrison was a country boy who’d been touched."

By Thomas McGuane | April 12, 2017

Kurt Vonnegut's Greatest Writing Advice

Kurt Vonnegut's Greatest Writing Advice

"Literature should not disappear up its own asshole," and other craft imperatives

By Emily Temple | April 11, 2017

10 Essential Terms for Poets (and Everyone Else)

10 Essential Terms for Poets (and Everyone Else)

From Aubade to Oriki to Tanka and More!

By Edward Hirsch | April 7, 2017

Reading Across America: A Scene Grows in Queens

Reading Across America: A Scene Grows in Queens

Catherine La Sota on Starting a Reading Series in the World's Borough

By Catherine LaSota | April 7, 2017

The Longest Winter: Or Why It Took Me 15 Years to Finish My Novel

The Longest Winter: Or Why It Took Me 15 Years to Finish My Novel

Max Winter Goes Year-By-Year on a Very Long Journey

By Max Winter | April 5, 2017

How Many Shakespeares Were There?

How Many Shakespeares Were There?

On Authorship, Erasure, and the Myth of the Great Solitary Writer

By Gabrielle Bellot | April 5, 2017

Alexander McCall Smith: In Praise of W.H. Auden

Alexander McCall Smith: In Praise of W.H. Auden

And from Moby Dick to Patrick O'Brian...

By Literary Hub | April 5, 2017

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