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Pilgrimage: Beowulf Sheehan on Author Photos and the Search for Home

Pilgrimage: Beowulf Sheehan on Author Photos and the Search for Home

“Home, like history, is at once both expansive and incomplete, a necessary mystery.”

By Beowulf Sheehan | December 6, 2024

Samina Ali on Writing Through the Fear

Samina Ali on Writing Through the Fear

“Why are aspiring writers convinced that ‘real’ writers don’t struggle?”

By Samina Ali | November 27, 2024

Slowing Poetry: On Learning to Walk and Write in a Changing, Ill Body

Slowing Poetry: On Learning to Walk and Write in a Changing, Ill Body

Traci Brimhall Transforms Her Poetry as Chronic Illness Shifts the Pacing of Her Life

By Traci Brimhall | November 19, 2024

Six Writers on Procrastination

Six Writers on Procrastination

How Miranda July, George Saunders, and More Think About Not-Writing

By Literary Hub | November 8, 2024

Neal Stephenson Jumps From Speculative Fancy to Strange History

Neal Stephenson Jumps From Speculative Fancy to Strange History

Eric Olson Talks to the Author of “Polostan”

By Eric Olson | November 8, 2024

Leonard Cassuto on Taking Care of Your Reader

Leonard Cassuto on Taking Care of Your Reader

“As Simone Weil put it: ‘Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.’”

By Leonard Cassuto | November 1, 2024

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Julie Sedivy on Amplifying the Pleasure of Language

By Julie Sedivy | October 25, 2024

Rebecca Nagle on Craft Lessons from (a Different Kind of) Crafting

By Rebecca Nagle | October 18, 2024

Mark Haber on the Beauty of Digression

By Mark Haber | October 11, 2024

Two Apple Problem: What “Show, Don't Tell” Means in Graphic Narratives

Two Apple Problem: What “Show, Don't Tell” Means in Graphic Narratives

Jesse Lee Kercheval on Drawing a Memoir

By Jesse Lee Kercheval | October 4, 2024

Ilyon Woo and Rachel Kousser on the Power of a Writing Partnership

Ilyon Woo and Rachel Kousser on the Power of a Writing Partnership

“In literary history, there are few constants like the writers’ feud. It doesn’t have to be that way.”

By Ilyon Woo and Rachel Kousser | October 4, 2024

Against Perfectionism and Productivity: On Embracing Flaws as a Writer

Against Perfectionism and Productivity: On Embracing Flaws as a Writer

Rachel Schwartzmann Allows Herself to Write and Live More Slowly and to Learn from Her Typos

By Rachel Schwartzmann | September 18, 2024

Brian Evenson on Finding the Language of Horror

Brian Evenson on Finding the Language of Horror

"It is about remembering the fear or wrongness that you felt in your body."

By Brian Evenson | September 13, 2024

Six Writers on Getting Words on the Page

Six Writers on Getting Words on the Page

In Which There’s No Wrong Way to Write a Book

By Literary Hub | September 6, 2024

“A Word About a Word Addressed to a Word.” On Embracing the Fictiveness of Fiction

“A Word About a Word Addressed to a Word.” On Embracing the Fictiveness of Fiction

For Maureen Sun Transparency Is Not Always a Virtue

By Maureen Sun | September 5, 2024

As a Writer, You Can Never Collect Too Many Endings

As a Writer, You Can Never Collect Too Many Endings

Steve Edwards on the Gathering of Life’s Infinite Moments

By Steve Edwards | August 27, 2024

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