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James Ellroy Reveals the Real Reason He Writes

James Ellroy Reveals the Real Reason He Writes

"I’m writing this essay in the spirit of atonement. My ongoing biography should be revised to reflect this."

By James Ellroy | September 7, 2023

Brendan Shay Basham on the Similarities Between the Chef Life and the Writing Life

Brendan Shay Basham on the Similarities Between the Chef Life and the Writing Life

"Processes are a series of moments in passing."

By Brendan Shay Basham | September 7, 2023

"Tolstoy did not neglect to describe the outhouses": Yiyun Li on the Material Concerns of Characters and Writers

The Author of Wednesday’s Child on Class, Money, Joy, and Luxury

By Yiyun Li | September 6, 2023

What Does It Mean to Write after Having Children?

What Does It Mean to Write after Having Children?

Lightsey Darst on the Eternal, Fleeting Moments of New Motherhood

By Lightsey Darst | August 31, 2023

Good Writing in a Bad Place: How One Incarcerated Writer Feeds His Craft

Good Writing in a Bad Place: How One Incarcerated Writer Feeds His Craft

From Sullivan Correctional Facility, Robert Lee Williams Muses on Access to Literature

By Robert Lee Williams | August 28, 2023

How the Vietnam War Accelerated Generational Divides in America

How the Vietnam War Accelerated Generational Divides in America

Drew Gilpin Faust on the Gradual Radicalization of Anti-War Student Activism

By Drew Gilpin Faust | August 24, 2023

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Dotted Lines: On Writing and Humiliation Under Iranian Censorship

By Moeen Farrokhi | August 24, 2023

Letting a Psychic Into the Space Between Me and My Mother

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The Long, Winding, Booby-Trapped, and Occasionally Rewarding Road to Publication

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Unspendable Currency: Edgar Kunz on Making Ends Meet As a Poet

Unspendable Currency: Edgar Kunz on Making Ends Meet As a Poet

"The job makes the real work possible. The place you live is only as good as the life it allows."

By Edgar Kunz | August 22, 2023

Accounting for the Unaccountable: Daniel Johnson on Writing about His Friend, James Foley

Accounting for the Unaccountable: Daniel Johnson on Writing about His Friend, James Foley

On Memorializing a Meteoric Life After an Unimaginable Loss

By Daniel Brock Johnson | August 22, 2023

The Battle to Fulfill the Racial Promise of Shaker Heights

The Battle to Fulfill the Racial Promise of Shaker Heights

Laura Meckler on Belonging, Interracial Adoption, and the "American dream town" in Ohio

By Laura Meckler | August 22, 2023

None of the Above: On Writing a Biracial Protagonist

None of the Above: On Writing a Biracial Protagonist

Claire Stanford Considers the Answers to Questions of Racial Representation and Identification

By Claire Stanford | August 21, 2023

David Shih on Missing His Father's Death

David Shih on Missing His Father's Death

"Although I’ve tried to own the fault entirely...I don’t think that take tells the whole story either."

By David Shih | August 21, 2023

"I Am the Only One Who Should Recite Them": When Werner Herzog Narrates Your AI Poetry Collection

Brent Katz on Directing the Legendary Director

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On the Difficulty of Getting Rid of Books

On the Difficulty of Getting Rid of Books

"I don’t get rid of them, per se; rather, I set them afloat, in search of new homes."

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