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On the Igbo Art of Storytelling

On the Igbo Art of Storytelling

Ikechukwu Ogbu Heeds an Ancestral Calling

By Ikechukwu Ogbu | July 17, 2020

On Lydia Davis's birthday, read her advice on language, writing from reality, and more.

On Lydia Davis's birthday, read her advice on language, writing from reality, and more.

By Corinne Segal | July 15, 2020

On Falling in Love with Your Characters

On Falling in Love with Your Characters

Sarah Gerard on Writing, Love, and Forgiveness

By Sarah Gerard | July 14, 2020

Reading Every Unread Book on My Bookshelf During the Pandemic

Reading Every Unread Book on My Bookshelf During the Pandemic

Angelica Baker on Building a Home, One Book at a Time

By Angelica Baker | July 13, 2020

On Being a Young Reader Attracted to the Darkest<br> Possible Stories

On Being a Young Reader Attracted to the Darkest
Possible Stories

Estelle Laure's Search For Challenges to Her Comfort

By Estelle Laure | July 13, 2020

Veronica Esposito on the Book That Changed Her Life

Veronica Esposito on the Book That Changed Her Life

On Trauma and Recovery, Therapy, and Writing as a Tool for Healing

By Veronica Esposito | July 9, 2020

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'Have You Considered Socialism?' Or, The Politics of Fictional Characters

By Andrew Martin | July 8, 2020

I Wrote My Memoir for the Same Reasons I Went to the Shooting Range

By Lacy Crawford | July 8, 2020

On Saul Bellow's Celebration of the Messy and Manic

By Brian Castleberry | July 7, 2020

Writing My Own

Writing My Own "Indian-American Novel" Meant Looking to California

Sameer Pandya on the Virtues of a Late Start

By Sameer Pandya | July 7, 2020

Lynn Steger Strong Wants You to Look Harder

Lynn Steger Strong Wants You to Look Harder

The Author of Want In Conversation with Brian Gresko

By Brian Gresko | July 6, 2020

Even Seamus Heaney <br>Made Mistakes

Even Seamus Heaney
Made Mistakes

On Poetry, Wordsworth, and Misremembering

By Erica McAlpine | July 6, 2020

Every Great Writer is a Great Deceiver: Vladimir Nabokov's Best Writing Advice

Every Great Writer is a Great Deceiver: Vladimir Nabokov's Best Writing Advice

"Style is not a tool, it is not a method, it is not a choice of words alone."

By Emily Temple | July 2, 2020

To Poets of Color Whose Work Has Been Called 'Healing'

To Poets of Color Whose Work Has Been Called 'Healing'

Shayla Lawson: It Is Not Your Job to Fix White People

By Shayla Lawson | July 1, 2020

Why Do Some Mathematicians Think They’re Poets?

Why Do Some Mathematicians Think They’re Poets?

Susan D'Agostino on the Search for Symmetry

By Susan D’Agostino | July 1, 2020

In Praise of the Dream-Logic of Speculative Fiction

In Praise of the Dream-Logic of Speculative Fiction

Sophie Mackintosh on the Art That Takes Us Into Uncharted Territory

By Sophie MacKintosh | June 30, 2020

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