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Embrace the Journey: An Octogenarian’s Advice For Younger Writers

Embrace the Journey: An Octogenarian’s Advice For Younger Writers

Abigail Thomas: “My problem was I thought you had to know what you were doing. Nonsense. You just have to start.”

By Abigail Thomas | November 21, 2024

In Search of the Moomins in Helsinki: The Enduring Magic of Tove Jansson’s Characters

In Search of the Moomins in Helsinki: The Enduring Magic of Tove Jansson’s Characters

Christiana Spens Returns to Her Father’s world (and the Beloved Moomin Books)

By Christiana Spens | November 20, 2024

Slowing Poetry: On Learning to Walk and Write in a Changing, Ill Body

Slowing Poetry: On Learning to Walk and Write in a Changing, Ill Body

Traci Brimhall Transforms Her Poetry as Chronic Illness Shifts the Pacing of Her Life

By Traci Brimhall | November 19, 2024

Leslie Jamison and Emmeline Clein on Words That Cut

Leslie Jamison and Emmeline Clein on Words That Cut

In Conversation with Lena Crown on Awakeners

By awakeners | November 19, 2024

Oliver Sacks Letters to Thom Gunn: Inside an Epistolary Friendship

Oliver Sacks Letters to Thom Gunn: Inside an Epistolary Friendship

A Correspondence Centered on Identity, Love and an Eternal Search for the Self

By Oliver Sacks | November 18, 2024

A Bag Full of Trouble: How I Found My Way Into My Debut Novel

A Bag Full of Trouble: How I Found My Way Into My Debut Novel

Bryan VanDyke on the Importance of Spontaneity and Chaos in the Writing Process

By Bryan VanDyke | November 18, 2024

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Double, Double: On the Unsettling Power of Doppelganger Stories

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Padma Viswanathan Imagines Radically Different Paths Her Life Could Have Taken

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The Annotated Nightstand: What Ishion Hutchinson Is Reading Now, and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Ishion Hutchinson Is Reading Now, and Next

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By Diana Arterian | November 14, 2024

“She Is Not Me.” What Reading to Your Children Teaches You About Yourself

“She Is Not Me.” What Reading to Your Children Teaches You About Yourself

Olivia A. Cole on Representation, Parenthood and the Power of Children’s Literature

By Olivia A. Cole | November 14, 2024

A Love Song to the Philippines: The Revolutionary Power of Jessica Hagedorn’s <em>Dogeaters</em>

A Love Song to the Philippines: The Revolutionary Power of Jessica Hagedorn’s Dogeaters

Patrick Rosal’s Introduction to a Formative Filipino American Novel

By Patrick Rosal | November 13, 2024

Fictionalizing Family: On What’s True and What’s Invented About Our Origins

Fictionalizing Family: On What’s True and What’s Invented About Our Origins

Linda Grant: “We are all made up of private family legends, we are all novels in the making.”

By Linda Grant | November 13, 2024

Marguerite Sheffer on Crafting a Collection of Century-Spanning Speculative Fiction

Marguerite Sheffer on Crafting a Collection of Century-Spanning Speculative Fiction

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of “The Man in the Banana Trees”

By Jane Ciabattari | November 12, 2024

Ann Patchett on Annotating Her Award-Winning Novel <em>Bel Canto</em> Twenty Years Later

Ann Patchett on Annotating Her Award-Winning Novel Bel Canto Twenty Years Later

“Through annotation, I saw patterns in the book I’d scarcely been aware of...”

By Ann Patchett | November 11, 2024

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