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When Fiction Helps You Get Closer to the Truth

When Fiction Helps You Get Closer to the Truth

On Plane Crashes, Failed Love Affairs, and Resurfaced Memories

By Norman Ollestad | October 21, 2016

Marlon James: Why I’m Done Talking About Diversity

Marlon James: Why I’m Done Talking About Diversity

Or, Why We Should Try an All-White Diversity Panel

By Marlon James | October 20, 2016

Who Should Own What in the Digital Age?

Who Should Own What in the Digital Age?

Jeff VanderMeer on Why You Should Care About the End of Black Clock Magazine

By Jeff VanderMeer | October 20, 2016

The Best of Genre + The Best of Literary Fiction = Awesome

The Best of Genre + The Best of Literary Fiction = Awesome

Benjamin Percy On Finally Realizing the Kind of Books He Wanted to Write

By Benjamin Percy | October 19, 2016

When Virality Goes Wrong

When Virality Goes Wrong

Chris Holm on the Inspiration Behind his New Michael Hendricks Novel

By Chris Holm | October 14, 2016

Interview With a Gatekeeper: Algonquin's Elisabeth Scharlatt

Interview With a Gatekeeper: Algonquin's Elisabeth Scharlatt

On Predicting Bestsellers, Inclusivity, and Hefty Advances

By Kerri Arsenault | October 13, 2016

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Dispatches From a Writer's Retreat on a Playground for the Super Rich

By Ying-Ju Lai | October 13, 2016

On Historical Fiction, True Stories, and Not Recreating Reality

By Craig Larsen | October 7, 2016

Can Fiction Still Make a Difference?

By Rachel Hennessy | October 7, 2016

Junot Diaz: On My Way to the Novel, I Fell in Love with the Short Story

Junot Diaz: On My Way to the Novel, I Fell in Love with the Short Story

In Praise of a Form "Unforgiving as Fuck"

By Junot Díaz | October 7, 2016

Nell Zink: How to Become a Novelist in Ten Easy Steps

Nell Zink: How to Become a Novelist in Ten Easy Steps

Advice from the author of Nicotine

By Nell Zink | October 5, 2016

How My Grandfather Went From the Pulitzer Prize to Complete Obscurity

How My Grandfather Went From the Pulitzer Prize to Complete Obscurity

Tom Shroder on Growing Up in the Shadow of MacKinlay Kantor

By Tom Shroder | October 4, 2016

Where the Hell Do You Start With Something as Vast as a Memoir?

Where the Hell Do You Start With Something as Vast as a Memoir?

iO Tillet Wright on How to Tell the Story of a Life

By iO Tillett Wright | October 3, 2016

One Story, Two Tellers: When Someone Else Wrote the Same Book As Me

One Story, Two Tellers: When Someone Else Wrote the Same Book As Me

Shifting Narratives, Oral Histories, and the Tricky Nature of the Facts

By Lorraine Boissoneault | October 3, 2016

The Time I Wrote a 150,000-Word Pulp Novel in a Month to Win a Bet

The Time I Wrote a 150,000-Word Pulp Novel in a Month to Win a Bet

Stanley Donwood on the Story Behind Catacombs of Terror!

By Stanley Donwood | September 30, 2016

How J.M. Coetzee wrote His Booker Prize-Winning Book

How J.M. Coetzee wrote His Booker Prize-Winning Book

On the Many False Starts and Revisions to Disgrace

By David Attwell | September 29, 2016

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