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Six Cartoonists on Critical Failure, One Panel at a Time

Six Cartoonists on Critical Failure, One Panel at a Time

Barbara Smaller, Edward Koren, Mick Stevens, and More

By Bob Eckstein | October 24, 2019

On the Many Different Engines That Power a Short Story

On the Many Different Engines That Power a Short Story

It's Not Just Plot or Character That Drives Fiction

By Lincoln Michel | October 24, 2019

How Pretending to Be Paul McCartney Helped Me Write My Book

How Pretending to Be Paul McCartney Helped Me Write My Book

"Sometimes Paul McCartney isn’t Paul McCartney at all."

By Karl Whitney | October 24, 2019

Teaching High School Students the Wildness of Poetry

Teaching High School Students the Wildness of Poetry

Nick Ripatrazone Speaks to Poet and Teacher Kerrin McCadden

By Nick Ripatrazone | October 23, 2019

Poet Diana Khoi Nguyen on Family and Writing a Radical Eulogy for Her Brother

Poet Diana Khoi Nguyen on Family and Writing a Radical Eulogy for Her Brother

The Author of Ghost Of in Conversation with Peter Mishler

By Peter Mishler | October 23, 2019

Panic is Worse Than Pain: How Fiction Failed Me After Trauma

Panic is Worse Than Pain: How Fiction Failed Me After Trauma

Jenn Ashworth on the Aftereffects of Surgery

By Jenn Ashworth | October 18, 2019

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The Connie Brothers Era: 45 Years at the Iowa Writers' Workshop

By Fiction Non Fiction | October 17, 2019

How Working the Swing Shift Saved My Writing

By Anna Maxymiw | October 16, 2019

Demystifying the Writer's Fear of Failure

By Sarah LaBrie | October 16, 2019

A Poet's Case for Wasting Time

A Poet's Case for Wasting Time

Kayo Chingonyi on Setting Aside the Imperatives of Late Capitalism

By Kayo Chingonyi | October 10, 2019

Josephine Rowe on Craft, Climate Grief, and the Politics of Fiction

Josephine Rowe on Craft, Climate Grief, and the Politics of Fiction

The Author of Here Until August in Conversation with Brandon Taylor

By Brandon Taylor | October 8, 2019

Philip Pullman on Children's Literature and the Critics Who Disdain It

Philip Pullman on Children's Literature and the Critics Who Disdain It

Don't Let Anyone Tell You What You Should or Should Not Be Reading

By Philip Pullman | October 8, 2019

The Lives of the Editors, from Big Press to Indie

The Lives of the Editors, from Big Press to Indie

With Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | October 3, 2019

Why Newspaper

Why Newspaper "Scoops" Don't Work in Narrative Nonfiction

Steve Luxenberg on Journalism Versus Storytelling

By Steve Luxenberg | October 1, 2019

Why Give a Rapist a Voice?

Why Give a Rapist a Voice?

Jeannie Vanasco on Writing the Character of Her Abuser

By Jeannie Vanasco | October 1, 2019

Anthony Doerr on Throwing Out All the Rules for Writing a Short Story

Anthony Doerr on Throwing Out All the Rules for Writing a Short Story

“Wait, dog point of view wasn’t allowed?”

By Anthony Doerr | September 30, 2019

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