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A testament to best-selling novelist Amy Tan’s obsession with birds, The Backyard Bird Chronicles spotlights hundreds of excerpts of illustrations and prose from Tan’s observations over the years.
The founder and director of Letras Latinas, the literary arm of the Institute for Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame, reflects on twenty years of groundbreaking work and what’s next for the organization.
At a time when the writing world faces serious challenges, the coauthored novel Fourteen Days brings together thirty-six noted writers to raise money for the Authors Guild and its battle against book bans and copyright infringement.
In response to the nationwide book-banning movement, libraries and other literary institutions are adopting the “sanctuary” label to show their commitment to protecting book access for readers.
The principal agent of McKinnon Literary talks about how publishing can be a form of activism, the different ways agents and authors can use comp titles, and how the future of the book business still holds many wonderful possibilities.
The first lines of a dozen noteworthy books, including There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib and Glitter Road by January Gill O’Neil.
“Your instinct to wait to publish is right. You only get one debut.” —Omotara James, author of Song of My Softening
The author of Midwhistle contemplates the common ground between jazz music and poetry.
“The computer I write on is never allowed to go online.” —Margot Livesey, author of The Road From Belhaven
The author of Midwhistle considers how a poem’s title can frame, deepen, or complicate the reader’s experience of it.
Even though ChatGPT can replicate and regurgitate the texts it has consumed, it still lacks the unique inspiration that lived experience provides for writers. A teacher of creative writing puts the AI chatbot to the test.
“Don’t stop writing, no matter what.” —Diana Khoi Nguyen, author of Root Fractures
“In the intimacy of the book, I feel very vulnerable.” —Zachary Pace, author of I Sing to Use the Waiting: A Collection of Essays About the Women Singers Who’ve Made Me Who I Am
The author of Family Family explores why tired tropes proliferate in fiction—and how to avoid them.
“I tend to expect the path to be straightforward. It seldom is.” —Kimberly Blaeser, author of Ancient Light
“Start with what interests you, and keep going.” —Cynthia Zarin, author of Inverno
Award-winning author Bonnie Jo Campbell discusses magical realism, balancing hot button issues, and the resilient and rascally women in her latest novel, The Waters.
“By the time I finished I actually felt that the topic had chosen me.” —Erika Howsare, author of The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship With Our Wild Neighbors
Ten authors answer the question: What’s the best piece of writing advice you’ve ever received?
Ten authors reveal what they were reading in 2023.
The author of fox woman get out! considers authenticity and how to find one’s authentic voice.
A nonprofit founded to strengthen the American South’s reputation as a home for great literature and art, April Gloaming publishes books that push limitations in medium and genre.
No longer limited to static text on a page, poets are composing verse in the unique medium of an NFT, opening new creative, collaborative, and financial possibilities for work that defies categorization.
In a major victory for activists, particularly undocumented writers, a whole new group of people now have reason to be hopeful about their chances for the prestigious award.
The first lines of a dozen noteworthy books, including You Bury the Birds in My Pelvis by Kelly Weber and Irregular Heartbeats at the Park West by Russell Brakefield.
