Inspiration

Write Who You Love: J. Ryan Stradal on Memorializing His Mother Through Fiction

"Over time I learned how to stare into that loss, a loss that brought more pain and longing than I’d ever felt, and pull her back through it."

 
By J. Ryan Stradal  August 7, 2023
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J. Vanessa Lyon on Finding Inspiration in the Photography of James Van Der Zee

By J. Vanessa Lyon  August 2, 2023
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Literary Concertos: A Reading List of Novels Inspired by Other Art Forms

By Julia Fine  June 13, 2023
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Always on the Clock: On the Writerly Need to Find Ideas in Unexpected Places

By Ethan Joella  November 29, 2022
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My New Novel Wasn’t Coming Together. Until I Put Some Googly Eyes on My Roomba.

By TJ Klune  July 27, 2022
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Why Writers Need to Confront and Create With Their Most Unpleasant Emotions

By Philip Schultz  June 8, 2022
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Susan Straight on Louise Erdrich and the Characters Who Haven’t Left Our Dreams

By Susan Straight  April 28, 2022
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Jesymn Ward on Discovering for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf

By Jesmyn Ward  April 20, 2022
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Finding Inspiration in Willa Cather’s Belief in the Necessity of Art

By Ladette Randolph  March 7, 2022
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The Sound of Muses: On Literary Comebacks and the Importance of Listening with Purpose

By Louis Edwards  August 23, 2021
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My Shadow Book: On Consciously—or Unconsciously—Immortalizing Ex-Partners in Literary Fiction

By Andrew Palmer  August 17, 2021
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Thanks to the Plumber Who Slept in My Bed: How a Surprising Trespasser Inspired My First Novel

By Beck Dorey-Stein  June 29, 2021
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What Poetry Can Teach Novelists: A Reading List

By Caroline Hardaker  April 15, 2021
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On the Bruce Springsteen Song That Reinvigorated My Writing

By Natalie Standiford  April 7, 2021
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Finding Creativity in the Wintertime Rhythms of a Bordeaux Vineyard

By Mari Andrew  March 11, 2021
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The Book That Changed My Life: Giving Voice to the Divine, Inexplicable Ocean

By Jock Serong  September 24, 2020
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The 100-year-old man who raised £32 million for the NHS is publishing two books this year.

By Aaron Robertson  May 14, 2020
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On the Line Between Plagiarism and Art

By Grant Maierhofer  November 11, 2019
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For So Many Cultures, the Key to Understanding Death is a Festival of Light

By Sasha Sagan  October 24, 2019
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Writing About the Forgotten Black Women of the Italo-Ethiopian War

By Maaza Mengiste  September 24, 2019
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How An 80-Year-Old Murder Inspired My Present-Day Novel

By Rosecrans Baldwin  June 8, 2017
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