The Lives of the Poets Aren't All That Cinematic

The Lives of the Poets Aren't All That Cinematic

Routine and Domesticity in Terence Davies’s A Quiet Passion and
Jim Jarmusch’s Paterson

By Lucy Scholes | April 13, 2017

Lidia Yuknavitch: I Will Always Inhabit the Water

Lidia Yuknavitch: I Will Always Inhabit the Water

On Living a Swimmer's Life

By Lidia Yuknavitch | April 12, 2017

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

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

Finding Spirits in the Night and Palimpsests of Probability

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

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Reading Across America: A Scene Grows in Queens

By Catherine LaSota | April 7, 2017

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

By Max Winter | April 5, 2017

How Many Shakespeares Were There?

By Gabrielle Bellot | April 5, 2017

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

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

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By Literary Hub | April 5, 2017

Don't Be a Dick: Colum McCann's Advice to Young Writers

Don't Be a Dick: Colum McCann's Advice to Young Writers

On the Importance of Kindness and Reading Widely

By Colum McCann | April 3, 2017

On the Philosophical Implications of Shelving Books

On the Philosophical Implications of Shelving Books

Or, the Time I Reorganized the Cook Books at BookCourt

By John Sherman | March 31, 2017

What Does it Mean to Set Your Novel at Harvard?

What Does it Mean to Set Your Novel at Harvard?

On The Idiot and the Evolution of the Campus Novel

By Amelia Ayrelan Iuvino | March 31, 2017

We Are All Detectives Now: When Literary Plots Get Mysterious

We Are All Detectives Now: When Literary Plots Get Mysterious

On Recent Novels by Katie Kitamura, Patty Yumi Cottrell, and More

By Tobias Carroll | March 30, 2017

The Unglamorous Ordeal of Recording Your Own Audiobook

The Unglamorous Ordeal of Recording Your Own Audiobook

"The cell-like booth was about the size of a European train commode"

By John Freeman Gill | March 29, 2017

How to Write About a Massacre

How to Write About a Massacre

Harriet Scott Chessman Grapples with the Story of My Lai

By Harriet Scott Chessman | March 28, 2017

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