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How Final Fantasy VII Taught Me to Write

How Final Fantasy VII Taught Me to Write

Jamil Jan Kochai on Character Building, Storytelling, and Cloud Strife

By Jamil Jan Kochai | July 20, 2022

Writing a Book About My Whiteness Forced Me to Confront My Own Lies

Writing a Book About My Whiteness Forced Me to Confront My Own Lies

Baynard Woods on the Infinite Gap Between Self-Conception and Material Reality

By Baynard Woods | July 20, 2022

Fandom as Methodology: On Fan-Nonfiction and Finding the Joy of Mutual Delusion

Fandom as Methodology: On Fan-Nonfiction and Finding the Joy of Mutual Delusion

Elvia Wilk Considers Fangirls, Possibility, and the Views from Many Somewheres

By Elvia Wilk | July 19, 2022

Liska Jacobs on Leaving Los Angeles, City of “Impermanence and Unreliability”

Liska Jacobs on Leaving Los Angeles, City of “Impermanence and Unreliability”

Finding Kinship with Eve Babitz and Joan Didion

By Liska Jacobs | July 19, 2022

My Journey to Writing Children’s Books Began with a Colicky Baby

My Journey to Writing Children’s Books Began with a Colicky Baby

Christina Geist on Her Picture Book Playbook

By Christina Geist | July 19, 2022

How Rummaging Through Oliver Stone’s Home Office Allowed a Young Rafael Agustín to Imagine Being a Writer

How Rummaging Through Oliver Stone’s Home Office Allowed a Young Rafael Agustín to Imagine Being a Writer

“I was still an English Learner, for crying out loud; how could I ever imagine working in the movie industry? Enter: Oliver Stone.”

By Rafael Agustin | July 15, 2022

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How Frank O’Hara Brought a Father and Daughter Closer Together

By The Literary Life | July 15, 2022

Small Rebellions: Erika L. Sánchez on Writing the Characters She Wanted to Read

By Erika L. Sánchez | July 14, 2022

Dispatches From the Imaginative Childhood of a Future Pilot

By Mark Vanhoenacker | July 14, 2022

On Finding Solace Among Nature’s Gentlest of Giants, the Gray Whale

On Finding Solace Among Nature’s Gentlest of Giants, the Gray Whale

"Even in the constant darkness of the polar winter, each aġviq finds plenty to sing about."

By Doreen Cunningham | July 14, 2022

Eating is Storytelling: Ruby Tandoh on Turning Meals into Memories

Eating is Storytelling: Ruby Tandoh on Turning Meals into Memories

“It’s about engaging all of your senses, and letting food, body, craving and daydream all bleed into one.”

By Ruby Tandoh | July 13, 2022

When Writing Becomes Traumatic: Reporting on the Jonestown Massacre

When Writing Becomes Traumatic: Reporting on the Jonestown Massacre

Julia Scheeres on the Things She Saw (and the Toll They Took)

By Julia Scheeres | July 13, 2022

What Culture Shock Taught Me About Sci-Fi and Fantasy Storytelling

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Alex Jennings on the Experience of Otherness, and Learning to Ask Questions

By Alex Jennings | July 13, 2022

Seán Hewitt on Taking Refuge in <em>The Legend of Zelda</em>

Seán Hewitt on Taking Refuge in The Legend of Zelda

"That pixelated landscape holds an electric key to my mind: it is able to renew my sense of wonder"

By Seán Hewitt | July 12, 2022

Fantasy vs. Reality: When the Muse Finally Speaks

Fantasy vs. Reality: When the Muse Finally Speaks

Antonia Angress on Seeing and Being Seen In Art and Real Life

By Antonia Angress | July 12, 2022

On the Personalization of Craft; Or, We’re All Going to Die Soon Anyway

On the Personalization of Craft; Or, We’re All Going to Die Soon Anyway

Diksha Basu Wonders What We Really Mean by “Writing Rules”

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