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The Time I Wrote a 150,000-Word Pulp Novel in a Month to Win a Bet

The Time I Wrote a 150,000-Word Pulp Novel in a Month to Win a Bet

Stanley Donwood on the Story Behind Catacombs of Terror!

By Stanley Donwood | September 30, 2016

How J.M. Coetzee wrote His Booker Prize-Winning Book

How J.M. Coetzee wrote His Booker Prize-Winning Book

On the Many False Starts and Revisions to Disgrace

By David Attwell | September 29, 2016

The Grumpy Librarian: If Your Living Room is Carpeted in Thorns...

The Grumpy Librarian: If Your Living Room is Carpeted in Thorns...

Recommendations Weird, Bleak, Hilarious, and Gritty

By Caitlin Goodman | September 27, 2016

Getting Paid for Poetry in the Digital Age

Getting Paid for Poetry in the Digital Age

On Ghost City Press, Micro-Chapbooks, and Donation-Based Models

By Deirdre Coyle | September 22, 2016

What Jane Austen Can Teach Us About Building Suspense

What Jane Austen Can Teach Us About Building Suspense

How to Use Dramatic Irony and Plot Secrets

By Rebecca Smith | September 21, 2016

Ask the Publicists: But What About My Book?

Ask the Publicists: But What About My Book?

Introducing a Monthly Advice Column from Broadside PR

By Literary Hub | September 20, 2016

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Fear and Loathing in New England: Lev Grossman Looks Back at His First Novel

By Lev Grossman | September 20, 2016

Writing Advice from Edward Albee

By Neil Goldstein Glick | September 20, 2016

On the Irresistible Pull of Tidal Metaphors

By Hugh Aldersey-Williams | September 20, 2016

Dear Rick Moody: Why Do Men Spinster-bait?

Dear Rick Moody: Why Do Men Spinster-bait?

Rick Moody, Life Coach, on Male Fear of the Symbolic Feminine

By Rick Moody | September 16, 2016

Alan Moore Goes (Very Very) Big with <em>Jerusalem</em>

Alan Moore Goes (Very Very) Big with Jerusalem

On the Ongoing Ascendancy of the Very Long Novel

By Joshua Zajdman | September 14, 2016

Wrestling With Writer's Block in the Middle of a Cranberry Bog

Wrestling With Writer's Block in the Middle of a Cranberry Bog

Rosamund Stone Zander on the Writing That Happens When We Don't Know It

By Rosamund Stone Zander | September 14, 2016

Why I'm Starting a Publishing House in Romania

Why I'm Starting a Publishing House in Romania

On Reading Our Way to the Real Issues

By Elena Marcu | September 14, 2016

How to Be a Writer: 10 Tips from Rebecca Solnit

How to Be a Writer: 10 Tips from Rebecca Solnit

Joy, Suffering, Reading, and Lots and Lots of Writing

By Rebecca Solnit | September 13, 2016

Teddy Wayne is Worried He Might Be a Fraud

Teddy Wayne is Worried He Might Be a Fraud

Some Prefatory Remarks for an Imaginary Reading

By Teddy Wayne | September 13, 2016

Kate Beaton Applies Her Graphic Genius to the Tyranny of Babies

Kate Beaton Applies Her Graphic Genius to the Tyranny of Babies

The Hark, a Vagrant! Creator Knows Her Audience

By Noah Berlatsky | September 13, 2016

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