The Art of Revision: Most of What You Write Should Be Cut

The Art of Revision: Most of What You Write Should Be Cut

Charles Johnson on How to Sculpt a Story

By Charles Johnson | December 20, 2016

Human Hair, Dolls Clothes, Love Letters and Other Strange Things Found in Old Books

Human Hair, Dolls Clothes, Love Letters and Other Strange Things Found in Old Books

UVA's Book Traces Project tracks human interactions with physical books

By Emily Temple | December 16, 2016

Ask the Publicists: An Author's Survival Kit for Dark Times

Ask the Publicists: An Author's Survival Kit for Dark Times

A Monthly Advice Column from Broadside PR

By Literary Hub | December 13, 2016

On Failing to Write for the Internet

On Failing to Write for the Internet

Laurie Sheck Gets Lost in a Sea of Infinite Links

By Laurie Sheck | December 13, 2016

How Writers Are Getting Back to Work

How Writers Are Getting Back to Work

Celeste Ng, Sara Novic, Morgan Jerkins and others on How Catastrophe Affects Daily Practice

By Lorraine Berry | December 13, 2016

Reading Through the First Year of Motherhood

Reading Through the First Year of Motherhood

Yardenne Greenspan on the Ups, Downs, and Books that Got Her Through

By Yardenne Greenspan | December 9, 2016

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Art Can Transfigure Hatred

By Charlotte Wood | December 9, 2016

An Incomplete Guide to Proper Literary Name-Dropping

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Turning a Book Into a Movie is Like Making Booze

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What a Novel Looks Like Before It's a Novel

What a Novel Looks Like Before It's a Novel

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How Do We Pay the Poets?

How Do We Pay the Poets?

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By Amanda Nadelberg | December 7, 2016

Poetry and Poets in a Time of Crisis

Poetry and Poets in a Time of Crisis

Matthew Zapruder on How One Imagination Can Activate Another

By Matthew Zapruder | December 6, 2016

Writing the Body: Trauma, Illness, Sexuality, and Beyond

Writing the Body: Trauma, Illness, Sexuality, and Beyond

Eileen Myles, Ruth Ozeki, Porochista Khakpour,
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For Writers Who Are Also the Mothers of Small Children

For Writers Who Are Also the Mothers of Small Children

Marcy Dermansky on Her Two Jobs: Parent, Writer

By Marcy Dermansky | December 5, 2016

From Hemingway to Kathy Acker: Making Art from the Outside

From Hemingway to Kathy Acker: Making Art from the Outside

Ellena Savage on the Struggle to Write and Make a Living at the Same Time

By Ellena Savage | December 5, 2016

I Was a Ghostwriter for a Ghostwriter

I Was a Ghostwriter for a Ghostwriter

On Time Spent in a Memoir Factory

By Michael Hafford | December 1, 2016

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