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Impulses, Sources, Trajectories: Douglas Unger on Discovering Why You Write

Impulses, Sources, Trajectories: Douglas Unger on Discovering Why You Write

“What kind of writer do I want to be? Where does my writing come from?”

By Douglas Unger | August 29, 2025

Literary Alchemy: On Fusing Research and Film Techniques to Write a Novel

Literary Alchemy: On Fusing Research and Film Techniques to Write a Novel

How Mo Ogrodnik Depicts Violence Against Women from Multiple Perspectives

By Mo Ogrodnik | May 8, 2025

More than Cosplaying the Past: Andrea Barrett on Learning to Write Fresh Historical Fiction

More than Cosplaying the Past: Andrea Barrett on Learning to Write Fresh Historical Fiction

The Author of “Dust and Light” Shares Her Formative Influences for Using Fact in Fiction

By Andrea Barrett | February 26, 2025

Coffee, Booze, Undressing, Deprivation: How Writers Get in the Mood to Write

Coffee, Booze, Undressing, Deprivation: How Writers Get in the Mood to Write

Caitlin Shetterly on Some Famous Attempts to Beat Writers' Block and What Finally Worked for Her

By Caitlin Shetterly | June 24, 2024

In Honor of Duke Ellington: Here Are 15 Great Books About Jazz

In Honor of Duke Ellington: Here Are 15 Great Books About Jazz

Ed Simon Recommends Langston Hughes, Dorothy Baker, Geoff Dyer, and More

By Ed Simon | May 24, 2024

Telling Everything All at Once: A Conversation with Michael Ondaatje

Telling Everything All at Once: A Conversation with Michael Ondaatje

Howard Norman Talks to Poet-Cum-Novelist About His First Collection in 25 Years

By Howard Norman | March 20, 2024

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Seven Unexpectedly Intimate Poetry Books to Read in March

By Rebecca Morgan Frank | March 4, 2024

Writing as Transformation: Who Paul Yoon Needed to Become to Finish His Book

By Laura van den Berg | October 10, 2023

On the Myth of the Made Writer and the Madness of Emerging

On the Myth of the Made Writer and the Madness of Emerging

Or: Encounters with Michael Ondaatje’s Dog

By Kailyn McCord | September 15, 2022

Crossing the Distance Between Fact and Truth in a Story About Love and Exile

Crossing the Distance Between Fact and Truth in a Story About Love and Exile

Yara Zgheib on Writing a Truthful Fiction About—and Amid—a Travel Ban

By Yara Zgheib | January 4, 2022

The English Patient?">Who should star in the new TV adaptation of <emThe English Patient?">

The English Patient?">Who should star in the new TV adaptation of The English Patient?

By Dan Sheehan | August 19, 2021

Lives Lived at Sea: A Reading List

Lives Lived at Sea: A Reading List

Lisa Alther Recommends Her Favorite Tales of Shipbound Life

By Lisa Alther | June 25, 2020

An open letter from writers, artists and scientists argues that there's no

An open letter from writers, artists and scientists argues that there's no "back to normal."

By Corinne Segal | May 8, 2020

What China's Literary Community is Reading During the Coronavirus Pandemic

What China's Literary Community is Reading During the Coronavirus Pandemic

Lu Xun, Michael Ondaatje, and More

By Na Zhong | March 17, 2020

Developers plan to turn the setting of Joyce's

Developers plan to turn the setting of Joyce's "The Dead" into a 56-room hostel.

By Emily Temple | November 8, 2019

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