The Craft of Writing

Chuck Klosterman on Writing Criticism for a Wide Audience

“My style is no style, which I think is the best style.”

 
By Chuck Klosterman  February 4, 2022
The Craft of Writing

Maeve Higgins on How to Write with Humor

By Maeve Higgins  January 28, 2022
The Craft of Writing

Annie Dillard on How Writers Learn to Trust Instinct

By Annie Dillard  January 14, 2022
The Craft of Writing

Mayukh Sen on Writing About Food—With Feeling

By Mayukh Sen  January 7, 2022
The Craft of Writing

On the Political Meaning of the Road Narrative

By Tiphanie Yanique  January 3, 2022
The Craft of Writing

Nikita Lalwani on the Art of Eavesdropping

By Nikita Lalwani  December 23, 2021
The Craft of Writing

Tiphanie Yanique on Breaking the Rules of Form

By Tiphanie Yanique  December 17, 2021
The Craft of Writing

Cara Blue Adams on How to Build a Short Story Collection

By Cara Blue Adams  December 10, 2021
The Craft of Writing

Lydia Davis on How Translation Opens a Writer’s Mind

By Lydia Davis  December 3, 2021
The Craft of Writing

Kyle Lucia Wu on What Novelists Can Learn From Poets

By Kyle Lucia Wu  November 12, 2021
The Craft of Writing

Victoria Chang on the Real Questions that Power Stories

By Victoria Chang  October 29, 2021
The Craft of Writing

Craig Davidson on the Secrets Best Left Out of Memoir

By Craig Davidson  October 22, 2021
The Craft of Writing

Marguerite Duras on Finding Stories Everywhere

By Marguerite Duras  October 15, 2021
The Craft of Writing

Wisława Szymborska on Learning to Write from Life

By Wisława Szymborska  October 8, 2021
The Craft of Writing

Roy Peter Clark on How to Write Cinematically

By Roy Peter Clark  October 1, 2021
The Craft of Writing

Yiyun Li on Taking Writing Lessons from War and Peace

By Yiyun Li  September 24, 2021
The Craft of Writing

Margaret Renkl on Finding Ideas Everywhere

By Margaret Renkl  September 17, 2021
The Craft of Writing

Jai Chakrabarti on How to Get Unstuck While Writing

By Jai Chakrabarti  September 10, 2021
The Craft of Writing

Jeff VanderMeer on Keeping Creative Play Alive

By Jeff VanderMeer  September 3, 2021
The Craft of Writing

Bonnie Friedman on the Pleasure of Diving into Details

By Bonnie Friedman  August 27, 2021
The Craft of Writing

What Makes a Great First Sentence?

By Alice McDermott  August 18, 2021
The Craft of Writing

Maurice Carlos Ruffin on Understanding Voice in Fiction

By Maurice Carlos Ruffin  August 13, 2021
The Craft of Writing

Larissa Pham on Allowing Memory to Shape a Memoir

By Larissa Pham  August 6, 2021
The Craft of Writing

Laura van den Berg on the Possibilities of Setting

By Laura van den Berg  July 30, 2021
The Craft of Writing

Zadie Smith on Reading While You Write

By Zadie Smith  July 23, 2021
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