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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

By Lena Valencia | August 7, 2024

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

By Kate Weinberg | August 7, 2024

The Art of Giving Up (and Starting Over) as a Novelist

The Art of Giving Up (and Starting Over) as a Novelist

Kat Tang on Moral Failings, Becoming a Lawyer, and Acknowledging When to Shelve Your Work

By Kat Tang | August 7, 2024

Sonya Kelly on Jean-Dominique Bauby's <em>The Diving Bell and the Butterfly</em>

Sonya Kelly on Jean-Dominique Bauby's The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

In Conversation for the Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast

By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast | August 7, 2024

Helen Phillips on Writing Speculative Fiction in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Helen Phillips on Writing Speculative Fiction in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of “Hum”

By Jane Ciabattari | August 6, 2024

The Lights Don’t Just Go Out: A Lifelong Fainter on How Fiction Gets Fainting All Wrong

The Lights Don’t Just Go Out: A Lifelong Fainter on How Fiction Gets Fainting All Wrong

Sophie Brickman on “Charlotte's Web,” JD Salinger, and Capturing Fainting from the Fainter’s Perspective

By Sophie Brickman | August 6, 2024

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A Monstrous Spiral: How Narrative Form Can Bring a Story to Life

By Jane Alison | August 6, 2024

Alisa Alering on Being the Mountain

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How Catalyst and Iskanchi Press Are Bringing African Writers’ Work to a Wider Audience

By Jessica Powers | August 5, 2024

Jill Ciment on Struggling With Certainty

Jill Ciment on Struggling With Certainty

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | August 5, 2024

Lisa Leshne and Kathleen Schmidt Offer Publishing Advice From the Trenches

Lisa Leshne and Kathleen Schmidt Offer Publishing Advice From the Trenches

From the Write-minded Podcast, Hosted by Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner

By Memoir Nation | August 5, 2024

Colm Tóibín on James Baldwin’s Enduring, International Influence

Colm Tóibín on James Baldwin’s Enduring, International Influence

Caoilinn Hughes in Conversation with the Author of “On James Baldwin”

By Caoilinn Hughes | August 2, 2024

Bret Anthony Johnson on Creating a Story’s Foundation

Bret Anthony Johnson on Creating a Story’s Foundation

"In fiction, place is where the writer and reader first collaborate."

By Bret Anthony Johnson | August 2, 2024

Taffy Brodesser-Akner on Falling in Love With Life

Taffy Brodesser-Akner on Falling in Love With Life

This Week on the Talk Easy Podcast with Sam Fragoso

By Talk Easy | August 1, 2024

Our “Long-Living Badasses.” Why So Much Asian American Fiction Focuses on Grandparents

Our “Long-Living Badasses.” Why So Much Asian American Fiction Focuses on Grandparents

Soma Mei Sheng Frazier on America's Youth-Obsessed Culture

By Soma Mei Sheng Frazier | July 31, 2024

Ananda Lima & L. M. Sagas on the Devil and A.I.

Ananda Lima & L. M. Sagas on the Devil and A.I.

In Conversation with Drew Broussard

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