Baroque, Purple, and Beautiful: In Praise of the Long, Complicated Sentence

Baroque, Purple, and Beautiful: In Praise of the Long, Complicated Sentence

Ed Simon Asks Us to Reconsider Our Definitions of Good Style

By Ed Simon | April 10, 2023

Joy Harjo on Being a Poet and Witness to History

Joy Harjo on Being a Poet and Witness to History

From Her Acceptance Speech for the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award at The National Book Critics Circle Awards

By Joy Harjo | April 10, 2023

Maggie Smith on How She Approached Plot in Her Memoir

Maggie Smith on How She Approached Plot in Her Memoir

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | April 10, 2023

Writing From the Margins: On the Origins and Development of the Lyric Essay

Writing From the Margins: On the Origins and Development of the Lyric Essay

Zoë Bossiere and Erica Trabold Consider Essay Writing as Resistance

By Zoë Bossiere and Erica Trabold | April 10, 2023

Ling Ling Huang on the Similarities Between Classical Music and Fiction Writing

Ling Ling Huang on the Similarities Between Classical Music and Fiction Writing

“Music and writing demand the same things: self-discipline, time, and patience.”

By Ling Ling Huang | April 10, 2023

Charif Shanahan on Making the Unseen Seen through Poetry

Charif Shanahan on Making the Unseen Seen through Poetry

The Poet on His New Collection Trace Evidence

By Literary Hub | April 10, 2023

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The Reader is the Only Place That Matters: On the Metaphysical Space Within Literature

By Blair Austin | April 10, 2023

Dani Shapiro on Letting Structure Reveal Itself

By Dani Shapiro | April 7, 2023

Jane Roper on Learning How to Have Fun While Writing Fiction

By Jane Roper | April 7, 2023

A Passion for Living in the Present: <br>A Conversation with Yuko Tsushima and Annie Ernaux

A Passion for Living in the Present:
A Conversation with Yuko Tsushima and Annie Ernaux

A Piece of Global Literary History Available in English For the First Time

By Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda | April 6, 2023

Nicole Chung on the Task of Winnowing a Life Story (and the Magic of Dogs)

Nicole Chung on the Task of Winnowing a Life Story (and the Magic of Dogs)

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | April 6, 2023

What It Feels Like to Publish Your Novel After 30 Years

What It Feels Like to Publish Your Novel After 30 Years

Melissa Coss Aquino on Being an Older Debut Novelist

By Melissa Coss Aquino | April 6, 2023

Manufacturing Lies: Dina Nayeri on How Our Cultural and Bureaucratic Norms Often Betray the Truth

Manufacturing Lies: Dina Nayeri on How Our Cultural and Bureaucratic Norms Often Betray the Truth

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | April 6, 2023

Tiffany Clarke Harrison on Embracing the Fragmentary in Her Debut Novel

Tiffany Clarke Harrison on Embracing the Fragmentary in Her Debut Novel

In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | April 6, 2023

The Annotated Nightstand: What Nicole Chung is Reading Now and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Nicole Chung is Reading Now and Next

Featuring Lydia Davis, Thao Thai, Rebecca Makkai and more

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Nicole Chung on Writing Through Grief and How to Begin Again

Nicole Chung on Writing Through Grief and How to Begin Again

Hannah Bae Talks to the Author of A Living Remedy

By Hannah Bae | April 5, 2023

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