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What It’s Like To Write About the Same Characters For Over a Decade

What It’s Like To Write About the Same Characters For Over a Decade

Rachel Joyce on Worldbuilding Across a Trilogy and Finally Letting Go

By Rachel Joyce | March 6, 2023

How a Middle School Piano Lesson Helped Me Write My Book

How a Middle School Piano Lesson Helped Me Write My Book

Ilyon Woo on Frederic Chopin’s Fantasie Impromptu and Lessons of the Past

By Ilyon Woo | March 6, 2023

What If? Lidia Yuknavitch on Her Philosophy of Teaching

What If? Lidia Yuknavitch on Her Philosophy of Teaching

“What is a writer in these times? How do we share the space of writing and making art?”

By Lidia Yuknavitch | March 3, 2023

Andrea Dunlop on Why Today is Such a Rage-Inducing Moment to Be a Woman

Andrea Dunlop on Why Today is Such a Rage-Inducing Moment to Be a Woman

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | March 3, 2023

Corie Adjmi on Her Guilt at Writing About “Flawed” Jewish Characters

Corie Adjmi on Her Guilt at Writing About “Flawed” Jewish Characters

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | March 3, 2023

Stephen Marche on the Truth About Writerly Perseverance

Stephen Marche on the Truth About Writerly Perseverance

“The sources of writerly perseverance are mostly silly.”

By Stephen Marche | March 3, 2023

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Personhood, Privilege, and the Virtual: Lavanya Lakshminarayan on Her New Dystopian Novel

By New Books Network | March 3, 2023

Revelations of Language: On Prose Poetry and the Beauty of a Single Sentence

By Nick Ripatrazone | March 2, 2023

More to Say: Ann Beattie on Her New Collection of Essays, Donald Barthelme, and the Chinese Spy Balloon

By Fiction Non Fiction | March 2, 2023

“Where You Been? Why You Back? What You Doin Now?” Lakiesha Carr on Returning Home to Write

“Where You Been? Why You Back? What You Doin Now?” Lakiesha Carr on Returning Home to Write

Because Sometimes You Have to Go Back to East Texas to Find Your Voice

By Lakiesha Carr | March 2, 2023

V. V. Ganeshananthan: “When Americans Read Other Countries, Those Countries are Flattened Down to One Point”

V. V. Ganeshananthan: “When Americans Read Other Countries, Those Countries are Flattened Down to One Point”

In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl

By Eloise King-Clements | March 1, 2023

Donal Ryan on Mourning the Death of an Unpublishable Novel

Donal Ryan on Mourning the Death of an Unpublishable Novel

“This was my art but it really only benefited me, and I couldn’t expect anyone to invest in it or to pay for it.”

By Donal Ryan | February 28, 2023

Heinz Insu Fenkl on Exploring Memory, Identity, and Inter-Generational Trauma in Korea

Heinz Insu Fenkl on Exploring Memory, Identity, and Inter-Generational Trauma in Korea

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of Skull Water

By Jane Ciabattari | February 28, 2023

Eden Boudreau on Memoirs That Risk Everything

Eden Boudreau on Memoirs That Risk Everything

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

By Memoir Nation | February 28, 2023

Ling Ma on Writing Short Stories: “You Can Let Them Simmer for Years”

Ling Ma on Writing Short Stories: “You Can Let Them Simmer for Years”

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By I'm a Writer But | February 28, 2023

It Happened To Me: On Being Totally Unproductive at a Writing Residency

It Happened To Me: On Being Totally Unproductive at a Writing Residency

Alice Robb Realizes That Solitude Isn’t For Everyone

By Alice Robb | February 27, 2023

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