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How Being an Airbnb Host and Cleaning Toilets Helped Me Write a Novel

How Being an Airbnb Host and Cleaning Toilets Helped Me Write a Novel

Kate Russo on What it Took to Write Her Novel Super Host

By Kate Russo | February 12, 2021

On the Connection Between Chinese Folktales and American Comic Book Heroes

On the Connection Between Chinese Folktales and American Comic Book Heroes

Gene Luen Yang Returns to the Adventures of Sun Wukong,
the Monkey King

By Gene Luen Yang | February 11, 2021

Brandon Hobson on Getting to the Truth Through Surreality

Brandon Hobson on Getting to the Truth Through Surreality

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | February 11, 2021

‘A Certain Kind of Hunger’: Chang-rae Lee on Writing Connection While We're Worlds Apart

‘A Certain Kind of Hunger’: Chang-rae Lee on Writing Connection While We're Worlds Apart

In Conversation with V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell
on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | February 11, 2021

From Stage to Screen to Page... A Few Notes on Writing Across Media

From Stage to Screen to Page... A Few Notes on Writing Across Media

Jen Silverman on Taking Risks and Following Your Artistic Vision

By Jen Silverman | February 11, 2021

Thomas Grattan on Writing a Joyful Queer Protagonist

Thomas Grattan on Writing a Joyful Queer Protagonist

In Conversation with Jackson Howard on Well-Versed

By Well-Versed | February 11, 2021

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Emma Copley Eisenberg on the Whiteness and Straightness Embedded in True Crime

By Reading Women | February 10, 2021

Vendela Vida on Finding Humor in the Darker Side of
Teenage Life

By Jane Ciabattari | February 9, 2021

How to Keep Track of Your Characters With Index Cards, String, and a Lot of Clothes Pins

By Bee Sacks | February 9, 2021

Joyce Carol Oates Thinks You Should Write Your Heart Out

Joyce Carol Oates Thinks You Should Write Your Heart Out

A Conversation with the Author of American Melancholy: Poems

By Literary Hub | February 9, 2021

Jenny Offill: Everyone’s Always Hoping for Some Kind of Plot

Jenny Offill: Everyone’s Always Hoping for Some Kind of Plot

This Week on So Many Damn Books

By So Many Damn Books | February 9, 2021

When Talking About Poetry Online <br>Goes Very Wrong

When Talking About Poetry Online
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On Ciaran Carson and the Importance of Low-Stakes Conversations in the “Small Back Room”

By Wayne Miller | February 8, 2021

The Greatest Literary Alliance of All Time: You, the Author, and the Character

The Greatest Literary Alliance of All Time: You, the Author, and the Character

Lisa Zeidner Asks Us to Think Deeply About Point of View in Fiction

By Lisa Zeidner | February 8, 2021

Ben Okri on the Strange Magic of Our Preoccupations

Ben Okri on the Strange Magic of Our Preoccupations

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | February 8, 2021

Of Mobs and Namesakes: Writing the Story of My Infamous Grandfather

Of Mobs and Namesakes: Writing the Story of My Infamous Grandfather

Russell Shorto on the Path To His Latest Book

By Russell Shorto | February 5, 2021

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

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