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Nicola Griffith on Writing Immersive Historical Fiction

Nicola Griffith on Writing Immersive Historical Fiction

"Empathy is a powerful tool, and sharp. Be careful how you wield it."

By Nicola Griffith | October 13, 2023

Inspired By the <em>Genius Loci</em>: On Unlocking the Spirit of Settings

Inspired By the Genius Loci: On Unlocking the Spirit of Settings

Martin Goodman Considers What It Means to Write About the Holocaust

By Martin Goodman | October 12, 2023

Safiya Sinclair on Growing Up Rastafari

Safiya Sinclair on Growing Up Rastafari

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | October 12, 2023

How to Write a Memoir When You're Sick With Cancer

How to Write a Memoir When You're Sick With Cancer

Dan O'Brien on Cancer and Honesty

By Dan O'Brien | October 11, 2023

Insomnia, Imposter Syndrome, and All the Ways I Learned to Write My Book

Insomnia, Imposter Syndrome, and All the Ways I Learned to Write My Book

"In order to tell the truth out loud, on the page, I needed to learn to be compassionate with myself"

By Rebecca Clarren | October 11, 2023

Hua Hsu on Finding the Future in the Past

Hua Hsu on Finding the Future in the Past

This Week on the Talk Easy Podcast with Sam Fragoso

By Talk Easy | October 11, 2023

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Newly minted Nobel Laureate Jon Fosse on the best writing advice he's ever received.

By Emily Temple | October 10, 2023

Writing as Transformation: Who Paul Yoon Needed to Become to Finish His Book

By Laura van den Berg | October 10, 2023

No One Ever Said It: On the Long History of "Ye Olde" in English

By Hana Videen | October 10, 2023

Helen Macdonald and Sin Blaché on the Art of Co-Authoring

Helen Macdonald and Sin Blaché on the Art of Co-Authoring

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

By Memoir Nation | October 10, 2023

Isle McElroy on How It Might Feel to Live in the Wrong Body

Isle McElroy on How It Might Feel to Live in the Wrong Body

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | October 10, 2023

McKenzie Wark Writes a Letter to Her Younger Self

McKenzie Wark Writes a Letter to Her Younger Self

On Love and Money, Sex and Death in Australia

By McKenzie Wark | October 9, 2023

Hilary Leichter on the Partnership Between Reader and Writer

Hilary Leichter on the Partnership Between Reader and Writer

"When a book arrives somewhere emotionally moving, it’s because the reader has helped put it there."

By Hilary Leichter | October 6, 2023

Understanding Zora Neale Hurston's Loneliness

Understanding Zora Neale Hurston's Loneliness

Richard Deming on Hurston's 1942 autobiography, Dust Tracks on a Road

By Richard Deming | October 5, 2023

Whose Mary Is It Anyway? Anne Eekhout on Fictionalizing Mary Shelley

Whose Mary Is It Anyway? Anne Eekhout on Fictionalizing Mary Shelley

"If I do my job well, it will ring true."

By Anne Eekhout | October 5, 2023

The Catharsis of Writing About Sex in Memoir

The Catharsis of Writing About Sex in Memoir

Minda Honey Reflects on Writing The Heartbreak Years

By Minda Honey | October 5, 2023

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