• Craft and Advice

    Otherppl

    Anna Qu Talks Betrayal, Immigration, and Assimilation

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  September 13, 2021
    First Draft

    “Profoundly, Deeply, Centrally Sensual.” Robert Olen Butler on the Kinesthetic Experience of Writing

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   September 13, 2021
    Family History

    Triumph and Tragedy: On Being a Mets Fan… and Being a Mankiewicz

    By Nick Davis  September 13, 2021
    The Craft of Writing

    Jai Chakrabarti on How to Get Unstuck While Writing

    By Jai Chakrabarti  September 10, 2021
    WWII

    How the History of German-Jewish Refugee Soldiers During WWII Shaped My Novel

    By Ellen Feldman  September 10, 2021
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Tolstoy Forever: Brigid Hughes and Yiyun Li on Retweeting a Russian Classic

    By Fiction Non Fiction  September 9, 2021
    California

    Falling in Love with Instant Anonymity: How I Became a Perpetual Student of LA

    By María Amparo Escandón  September 9, 2021
    In Conversation

    Lauren Groff and Rebecca Makkai Talk Literary Ethics, the Loneliness of Bodies, and Writerly Friendship

    By Rebecca Makkai  September 8, 2021
    Thresholds

    Alexandra Kleeman on the Artificial Boundary Between the Natural and Man-Made

    By Thresholds   September 8, 2021
    Writers on Writers

    Hilma Wolitzer on the Catharsis of Writing Through Grief

    By Jane Ciabattari  September 7, 2021
    First Draft

    Jennifer Sperry Steinorth on the Alchemy in Graphic Poetry

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   September 7, 2021
    Motherhood

    The Heartbreaking Ingenuity of the Mother-Writer

    By Olivia Campbell  September 3, 2021
    The Craft of Writing

    Jeff VanderMeer on Keeping Creative Play Alive

    By Jeff VanderMeer  September 3, 2021
    Reading Lists

    Exploring the “Hidden Figures” of the WWII Women’s Army Corps

    By Kaia Alderson  September 3, 2021
    On Writing

    The Ambiguous Loss of (Probably) Not Selling My Novel

    By Danielle Lazarin  September 2, 2021
    Thresholds

    Lauren Sandler on Setting Up Ground Rules with Her Book Subjects

    By Thresholds   September 1, 2021
    Otherppl

    Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi on the Ambiguous and Unfolding Process of Healing

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  September 1, 2021
    dialogue

    Not Sure If Your Dialogue Is Any Good? Get an Actor to Perform It

    By Calvin Kasulke  August 31, 2021
    So Many Damn Books

    Mona Awad on the Duality and Universality of Shakespeare

    By So Many Damn Books  August 31, 2021
    First Draft

    Christine Mangan on the Delicate Balance of Crafting Suspense

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   August 30, 2021
    The Craft of Writing

    Bonnie Friedman on the Pleasure of Diving into Details

    By Bonnie Friedman  August 27, 2021
    Family Stories

    Too Close To Home: Writing a Book That Your Parents Won’t Read

    By Michelle Jana Chan  August 27, 2021
    Research

    How an Irish Syntactical Peculiarity Helped Me Find My Protagonist’s Voice

    By Kia Corthron  August 27, 2021
    The Common

    Jose Hernandez Diaz on the Surrealism of Prose Poetry

    By The Common  August 27, 2021
    How a Person Should Be

    Wayne Koestenbaum Would Like to Thank Dreams and Nouns

    By Wayne Koestenbaum  August 26, 2021
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