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Zen, with Legos: How Playing with Blocks Helped Colleen McKeegan Make Sense of Bad Reviews

Zen, with Legos: How Playing with Blocks Helped Colleen McKeegan Make Sense of Bad Reviews

The Author of “Rip Tide” on Surviving the Chaos of Publishing

By Colleen McKeegan | August 15, 2024

What Clickbait Tells Us About the Evolution of Print and Online Media

What Clickbait Tells Us About the Evolution of Print and Online Media

Holly Baxter on the Virtues and Pitfalls of Journalism in the 21st Century

By Holly Baxter | August 15, 2024

How the Prospect of Publishing Can Paralyze the Writing Process

How the Prospect of Publishing Can Paralyze the Writing Process

Sofia Samatar on Balancing Self-Compartmentalization With the Joy of Creation

By Sofia Samatar | August 14, 2024

Suyi Davies Okungbowa & Brenda Peynado on Futures Bleak and Hopeful

Suyi Davies Okungbowa & Brenda Peynado on Futures Bleak and Hopeful

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By Tor Presents: Voyage into Genre | August 14, 2024

Acamea Deadwiler on Rescuing the Little Girl Inside Her

Acamea Deadwiler on Rescuing the Little Girl Inside Her

In Conversation with Lindsay Hunter on I'm a Writer But  

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Pride, Prejudice, Sex, and Drugs: How Jane Austen Helped Me Write a Profane Novel

Pride, Prejudice, Sex, and Drugs: How Jane Austen Helped Me Write a Profane Novel

Sarah Seltzer on Crafting Round Characters, Austen’s Literary Bad Behavior, and Being a Janeite

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Ava Nathaniel Winter on Poetic Embodiment, Queerness in Judaism, and Finding Art in the Disturbing

By Literary Hub | August 12, 2024

Abby Geni on Teaching the Instinctual

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Javier Zamora and Susan Kiyo Ito on Writing the Story You Have to Write

By Memoir Nation | August 12, 2024

Bringing Felice Bauer to Life in Magdaléna Platzová’s <em>Life After Kafka</em>

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Alex Zucker on the Importance of Style and Voice in Literary Translation

By Alex Zucker | August 9, 2024

Flynn Berry on an Underrated Tool for Character Development: Grocery Shopping

Flynn Berry on an Underrated Tool for Character Development: Grocery Shopping

“I need to know if my character shops for convenience or comfort. If she’s buying ingredients for elaborate recipes, or frozen ready-meals.”

By Flynn Berry | August 9, 2024

When the Best Possible Story is Right Outside Your Door

When the Best Possible Story is Right Outside Your Door

Nathan Deuel on (Trying) to Teach Travel Writing in the Middle of the UCLA Student Protests

By Nathan Deuel | August 9, 2024

My Friends Have Bad Taste in Poetry and I Want to Tell Them: Am I the Literary Asshole?

My Friends Have Bad Taste in Poetry and I Want to Tell Them: Am I the Literary Asshole?

Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior

By Kristen Arnett | August 8, 2024

Liz Rosenberg on Louisa May Alcott's Essays

Liz Rosenberg on Louisa May Alcott's Essays

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | August 8, 2024

Experiencing Place in Fiction: On Allowing Your Characters to Get Lost

Experiencing Place in Fiction: On Allowing Your Characters to Get Lost

Lena Valencia on Writing Place Like a Character, Rebecca Solnit, and the American Southwest

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Lifting the Curse of Luigi da Porto: On the Life and Legacy of a 15th-Century Italian Poet

Lifting the Curse of Luigi da Porto: On the Life and Legacy of a 15th-Century Italian Poet

Kate Weinberg Finds Literary Inspiration in Romeo and Juliet’s Original Creator

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