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Yael Goldstein-Love on Elegantly Weaving Science into Fiction

Yael Goldstein-Love on Elegantly Weaving Science into Fiction

"I'd forgotten the fundamental law of fiction: don’t mess with suspension of disbelief."

By Yael Goldstein-Love | July 28, 2023

Megan Fernandes on the Literary Uses of a Room

Megan Fernandes on the Literary Uses of a Room

"Rooms are springboards for time and time is for the poets."

By Megan Fernandes | July 14, 2023

Many Voices, Many Truths: On the Benefits of Polyvocal Stories

Many Voices, Many Truths: On the Benefits of Polyvocal Stories

How Hannah Michell Transcends the Single Perspective

By Hannah Michell | July 14, 2023

Poet Sara Deniz Akant Talks Uncertainty, Turkish Identity, and Embracing Cringe

Poet Sara Deniz Akant Talks Uncertainty, Turkish Identity, and Embracing Cringe

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By Peter Mishler | July 7, 2023

The Pleasure of Taking the Long Way: On Puzzling the Route to a Poem

The Pleasure of Taking the Long Way: On Puzzling the Route to a Poem

Lauren Camp Considers the Value of Spending Time in Astonishment

By Lauren Camp | June 29, 2023

Adventures in Memory: On Searching for Truth by Writing Fiction

Adventures in Memory: On Searching for Truth by Writing Fiction

Boo Trundle Considers the Lessons of Memoir in Novel Writing

By Boo Trundle | June 28, 2023

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In Praise of the Liminal Spaces and Uncertain Endings of Folklore

By Thao Thai | June 27, 2023

Helen Ellis on Writing About People You Know (in a Nice Way).

By Helen Ellis | June 16, 2023

Revise, Revise! Anna Badkhen on the Joys of Revision

By Anna Badkhen | June 5, 2023

Luis Alberto Urrea on Family Stories and the Work of Witnessing

Luis Alberto Urrea on Family Stories and the Work of Witnessing

“We carry inside us a theater, a library, a storehouse of quotidian detail that becomes heroic and eternal by the force of our art.”

By Luis Alberto Urrea | June 2, 2023

Why I Had to Get Older to Write About Youth

Why I Had to Get Older to Write About Youth

Allegra Goodman on Finding the Necessary Distance to Write up Close

By Allegra Goodman | January 4, 2023

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Thank You for Being a Friend: Lessons in Writing and Life from <em

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Parini Shroff on Writing Against Tropes and Celebrating Platonic Love Stories

By Parini Shroff | January 3, 2023

Sam Lipsyte on the What and the How of Writing

Sam Lipsyte on the What and the How of Writing

“Style is your filter on all of this... how it summons language in you, how life comes to be alive on the page.”

By Sam Lipsyte | December 9, 2022

In Praise of the Glorious Deliverance of Swimming

In Praise of the Glorious Deliverance of Swimming

Michael Parker on Worshipping Water, in Life and Fiction

By Michael Parker | November 21, 2022

“Blown Apart by Love and Grief.” Catherine Newman in Conversation with Debra Jo Immergut

“Blown Apart by Love and Grief.” Catherine Newman in Conversation with Debra Jo Immergut

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By Debra Jo Immergut | November 8, 2022

The Long and the Short of It: Hilma Wolitzer on Returning to Short Fiction in Her 90s

The Long and the Short of It: Hilma Wolitzer on Returning to Short Fiction in Her 90s

“To publish a collection of short stories in my 90’s seems miraculous to me.”

By Hilma Wolitzer | November 2, 2022

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