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What Jane Austen Can Teach Us About Building Suspense

What Jane Austen Can Teach Us About Building Suspense

How to Use Dramatic Irony and Plot Secrets

By Rebecca Smith | September 21, 2016

Ask the Publicists: But What About My Book?

Ask the Publicists: But What About My Book?

Introducing a Monthly Advice Column from Broadside PR

By Literary Hub | September 20, 2016

Fear and Loathing in New England: Lev Grossman Looks Back at His First Novel

Fear and Loathing in New England: Lev Grossman Looks Back at His First Novel

"I wasn’t really a slacker; I was more just a loser."

By Lev Grossman | September 20, 2016

Writing Advice from Edward Albee

Writing Advice from Edward Albee

When One of the Great Playwrights of the 20th Century Visits Your High School

By Neil Goldstein Glick | September 20, 2016

On the Irresistible Pull of Tidal Metaphors

On the Irresistible Pull of Tidal Metaphors

The Language of Love and Death Deep Beneath the Sea

By Hugh Aldersey-Williams | September 20, 2016

Dear Rick Moody: Why Do Men Spinster-bait?

Dear Rick Moody: Why Do Men Spinster-bait?

Rick Moody, Life Coach, on Male Fear of the Symbolic Feminine

By Rick Moody | September 16, 2016

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How to Be a Writer: 10 Tips from Rebecca Solnit

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Teddy Wayne is Worried He Might Be a Fraud

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Kate Beaton Applies Her Graphic Genius to the Tyranny of Babies

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How My Grandmother's Cookbook Made Me a Writer

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How Do We Fix the MFA?

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Ron Rash on Writing to Bring Out the Dead

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Discovering the Stories That Need to Be Told

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How Being a Bookseller Made Me a Better Writer

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Kea Wilson on Standing Face to Face with Actual Readers

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