• Craft and Advice

    Cooking

    In a Gazan Home in California, Two Writers Share a Taste of Home

    By Raj Tawney  January 31, 2022
    The Writing Life

    The Courage to Write: On the Radical Generosity of Letting Yourself Be Seen

    By Robin Marie MacArthur  January 28, 2022
    The Craft of Writing

    Maeve Higgins on How to Write with Humor

    By Maeve Higgins  January 28, 2022
    In Conversation

    Marcial Gala on Writing Cuba and Reworking The Iliad

    By Samuel Jaffe Goldstein  January 28, 2022
    The Common

    Steven Tagle on Writing and Living in Greece

    By The Common  January 28, 2022
    The Literary Life

    Anjanette Delgado, Yaddyra Peralta, and Mia Leonin on the Literature of Uprootedness

    By The Literary Life  January 28, 2022
    New Books Network

    Patricia A. Jackson on Reworking Biblical Lore and Mythology

    By New Books Network  January 28, 2022
    The Maris Review

    John Darnielle on the Crisis of Conscience in True Crime

    By The Maris Review  January 27, 2022
    Book Dreams

    Deesha Philyaw on Why Her Book Should Not Have Succeeded

    By Book Dreams  January 27, 2022
    Mythology

    Why We Need to Revisit Old Myths to Create New Ones

    By Michael Bazzett  January 27, 2022
    Sci-Fi and Fantasy

    The Best of 1970s and 80s Women-Authored Science Fiction and Fantasy

    By David L. Pike  January 26, 2022
    The South

    Imani Perry on Writing the Story of the American South

    By Corinne Segal  January 26, 2022
    NewberyTart

    How Marc Brown Got John Lewis (and Others!) to Guest-Star on Arthur

    By NewberyTart   January 26, 2022
    I'm a Writer But

    JoAnna Novak on Doing the Work Work, and Also the Work

    By I'm a Writer But   January 25, 2022
    In Conversation

    Sequoia Nagamatsu on Writing the Grief and Connections of an Enduring Pandemic

    By Jane Ciabattari  January 25, 2022
    Character

    Place is Not a Character—It is Its Own Story

    By Morgan Thomas  January 25, 2022
    In Conversation

    Jessamine Chan and Crystal Hana Kim Talk Pregnancy, Depression, and Asian American Heroism

    By Crystal Hana Kim  January 25, 2022
    First Draft

    “A Kind of Clash.” Tom Bissell on the Structure of His Short Stories

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   January 24, 2022
    Publishing

    On the Importance of Knowing Your Worth As a Writer, Down to the Dollar

    By Luke Cassidy  January 24, 2022
    Author Photos

    Twelve Writers Share the Stories Behind Their Author Photos

    By Rachel Krantz  January 21, 2022
    Literary Criticism

    Bernardine Evaristo on the Richness of Older Women’s Stories

    By Bernardine Evaristo  January 21, 2022
    The Writing Life

    My Novel’s 16-Year Journey Across the Atlantic Ocean

    By Mads Nygaard  January 21, 2022
    New Books Network

    “Bedtrick is a Lie About Sex.” Jinny Webber on the Layered Meaning Behind the Title of Her Novel

    By New Books Network  January 21, 2022
    The Maris Review

    Glory Edim on Expanding the Canon of Black Girl Coming-of-Age Stories

    By The Maris Review  January 20, 2022
    Exercise

    The Rest Principle: On the Necessity of Recovery, in Fitness and Writing

    By Bill Hayes  January 20, 2022
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