• Craft and Advice

    Narrative

    Dear Blank Space: A Literacy Narrative

    By Jennifer S. Cheng  December 6, 2022
    Twitterverse

    Diksha Basu: What Do You Do When You See Someone Reading Your Book in Public?

    By Twitterverse   December 6, 2022
    Write-minded

    Sarah Manguso is Not Interested in Wasting Words

    By Write-minded   December 6, 2022
    Keen On

    How to Live in France and Write Novels About Fine Food and Wine

    By Keen On  December 6, 2022
    When I’m Not Writing

    “There’s No Story to Tell About Swimming.” Madeleine Watts on How to Quiet the Mind

    By Madeleine Watts  December 5, 2022
    Teaching

    On Teaching and Learning the Language of Care

    By Amanda Parrish Morgan  December 5, 2022
    First Draft

    “She Could Already Feel Herself as Being Part of the Next World.” Morowa Yejidé on the Interplay Between Life and Death

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   December 5, 2022
    The Craft of Writing

    Anna Hogeland on the Rewards of Procrastination

    By Anna Hogeland  December 2, 2022
    On Grief

    Of Grief and Book Tours

    By Silas House  December 2, 2022
    On Poetry

    Yusef Komunyakaa on the Genius and Contradictions of Etheridge Knight

    By Yusef Komunyakaa  December 2, 2022
    New Books Network

    Hiron Ennes on Their Gothic Science Fiction Novel, Leech

    By New Books Network  December 2, 2022
    Thresholds

    Alyssa Songsiridej on Reaching the Limits of a Self… and a Neighborhood

    By Thresholds   December 1, 2022
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    With the Ancestors: Buki Papillon on African Folklore and Wakanda Forever

    By Fiction Non Fiction  December 1, 2022
    Book Dreams

    Vaishnavi Patel on the Surprising Evidence of Feminism in the Ramayana

    By Book Dreams  December 1, 2022
    Literary Criticism

    On the Similarities Between Writing and Turning Oneself Into a Werewolf

    By Douglas Kearney  November 30, 2022
    WWII

    Iain MacGregor on Discovering the Untold Stories of Stalingrad’s Citizens

    By Iain MacGregor  November 30, 2022
    Otherppl

    Emily Pifer: Finding Truth (and Lying to Herself) While Editing Her Debut Memoir

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  November 30, 2022
    Narrative

    How Stories Create Individual and Collective Pasts, Presents, and Futures

    By Mary-Alice Daniel  November 29, 2022
    Inspiration

    Always on the Clock: On the Writerly Need to Find Ideas in Unexpected Places

    By Ethan Joella  November 29, 2022
    Write-minded

    Angie Cruz on Unexpected Creative Intersections and Influences

    By Write-minded   November 29, 2022
    So Many Damn Books

    “It’s Kind of Embarrassing to Admit the Depth of My Obsession” Ashley Hutson on Watching Three’s Company and Writing Her Novel

    By So Many Damn Books  November 29, 2022
    First Draft

    Elizabeth McCracken on Grieving Her Mother Through Writing

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   November 28, 2022
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Live from Writers for Readers in Kansas City: Alexander Chee on Editing Best American Essays 2022

    By Fiction Non Fiction  November 23, 2022
    I'm a Writer But

    Coco Picard on Trusting Narrative Magic

    By I'm a Writer But   November 23, 2022
    Thresholds

    Asali Solomon on Writing Fiction as a Process of Discovery

    By Thresholds   November 23, 2022
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