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How to Grieve For Your Friend and Mentor

How to Grieve For Your Friend and Mentor

Amy Jo Burns on Alexander Chee, Sigrid Nunez, and Writing After Death

By Amy Jo Burns | December 18, 2018

In Praise of the Long and Complicated Sentence

In Praise of the Long and Complicated Sentence

Frank Sinatra. Now There's a Guy Who Could String Together a Lotta Words.

By Joe Moran | December 12, 2018

It's Never Too Late to Start (or Finally Finish) Your Novel

It's Never Too Late to Start (or Finally Finish) Your Novel

Janet Clare on Having a Literary Debut When You're No Longer "a Debutante in Life"

By Janet Clare | December 11, 2018

Meet the Man Who Introduced Jacques Derrida to America

Meet the Man Who Introduced Jacques Derrida to America

On the Remarkable Legacy of Richard Macksey

By Kate Dwyer | December 6, 2018

What Happens When Your Writers Retreat Burns to the Ground?

What Happens When Your Writers Retreat Burns to the Ground?

Janis Cooke Newman on Rebuilding Lit Camp

By Janis Cooke Newman | December 6, 2018

The Grandfather of New Nature Writing Was a Bird-Loving Poet

The Grandfather of New Nature Writing Was a Bird-Loving Poet

John Clare, Peasant Poet, Ornithologist

By Stephen Moss | December 6, 2018

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The Scientists' Writing Group: Finding Community in a Burning World

By Lauren E. Oakes and Emily Polk | December 4, 2018

If I Miss a Writing Day, I Have to Pay Donald Trump

By Tommy Schnurmacher | December 3, 2018

How to Spend a Literary Long Weekend in Edinburgh

By Dana Givens | November 30, 2018

Can You Measure the Happiness of Your Favorite Story?

Can You Measure the Happiness of Your Favorite Story?

On Happy Plots, Machines and Literature

By Kirsten Menger-Anderson | November 29, 2018

Her Private Space: On Brigid Hughes, Editor

Her Private Space: On Brigid Hughes, Editor

“The writers working away from the mainstream are often the most exciting ones.”

By Madelaine Lucas | November 28, 2018

Reading Across America: How Do You Take a Reading Series to the Next Level?

Reading Across America: How Do You Take a Reading Series to the Next Level?

Dead Rabbits, from an Idea to a Community and a Press

By M.K. Rainey | November 28, 2018

5 Reasons a Writer Should Move to St. Louis

5 Reasons a Writer Should Move to St. Louis

A Thriving Literary Scene, Lower Rent, and More

By Sylvia Sukop | November 27, 2018

It's Taken 40 Years For Me to Write About the Day My Brother Died

It's Taken 40 Years For Me to Write About the Day My Brother Died

Richard Beard on a Family's Denial and the Fragments of Memory

By Richard Beard | November 26, 2018

What Silent Film and Found Photographs Can Show Us About Writing

What Silent Film and Found Photographs Can Show Us About Writing

Maria Romasco Moore on What She Learned From the "Kingdom of Shadows"

By Maria Romasco Moore | November 26, 2018

For the Virtues I Have Acquired as a Librarian, I Am Truly Thankful

For the Virtues I Have Acquired as a Librarian, I Am Truly Thankful

Kristen Arnett Has Learned Patience (and Some Other Things)

By Kristen Arnett | November 21, 2018

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