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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

Alan Moore Goes (Very Very) Big with <em>Jerusalem</em>

Alan Moore Goes (Very Very) Big with Jerusalem

On the Ongoing Ascendancy of the Very Long Novel

By Joshua Zajdman | September 14, 2016

Wrestling With Writer's Block in the Middle of a Cranberry Bog

Wrestling With Writer's Block in the Middle of a Cranberry Bog

Rosamund Stone Zander on the Writing That Happens When We Don't Know It

By Rosamund Stone Zander | September 14, 2016

Why I'm Starting a Publishing House in Romania

Why I'm Starting a Publishing House in Romania

On Reading Our Way to the Real Issues

By Elena Marcu | September 14, 2016

How to Be a Writer: 10 Tips from Rebecca Solnit

How to Be a Writer: 10 Tips from Rebecca Solnit

Joy, Suffering, Reading, and Lots and Lots of Writing

By Rebecca Solnit | September 13, 2016

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Teddy Wayne is Worried He Might Be a Fraud

By Teddy Wayne | September 13, 2016

Kate Beaton Applies Her Graphic Genius to the Tyranny of Babies

By Noah Berlatsky | September 13, 2016

How My Grandmother's Cookbook Made Me a Writer

By Michelle Brafman | September 13, 2016

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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

By Ron Rash | September 12, 2016

How Being a Bookseller Made Me a Better Writer

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Interview With a Gatekeeper: Nan Talese

Interview With a Gatekeeper: Nan Talese

From Random House's First Female Literary Editor to Her Own Imprint

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Hitler's Dog, and Other Problems of Historical Fiction

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Peter Ho Davies on the challenges (and opportunities) of mining the past

By Peter Ho Davies | September 7, 2016

On Writing, Parenthood and Trying to Stay a Little Wild

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Laura Cronk on the Ways that Her Children Have and Haven't Changed Her Work

By Laura Cronk | September 2, 2016

The Editor Inside My Head is a Cruel and Demanding S.O.B.

The Editor Inside My Head is a Cruel and Demanding S.O.B.

Michael Koryta on Craft and the Notes He Leaves for Himself

By Michael Koryta | September 2, 2016

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