Where Big Books Are Born: Viet Thanh Nguyen on the Fine Arts Work Center

The author of The Refugees on the retreat in Provincetown, Massachusetts.
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The author of The Refugees on the retreat in Provincetown, Massachusetts.
The author of There There on the retreat in Peterborough, New Hampshire.
The author of What We Do With the Wreckage on the retreat in Mineral, Washington
The author of Sweetness #9 on the retreat in Red Wing, Minnesota.
The author of The Loss of All Lost Things on the retreat in Cassis, France.
Poetry Out Loud offers high school students a new way of seeing the world.
The author of Shahid Reads His Own Palm on the retreat in Greensburg, Pennsylvania.
The author of Pure Hollywood on the retreat in Saratoga Springs, New York.
Novelists Caroline Leavitt and Jonathan Evison discuss the books that just didn’t work.
The author of An American Marriage on the retreat in Sheridan, Wyoming.
The author of We Play a Game on the retreat in New York City.
The author of The Ministry of Special Cases on the retreat in New York City.
A poet and essayist recalls his personal introductions to poetry and its craft during his younger years.
Authors share their notes on writing in this series of micro craft essays. In the latest installment: Tayari Jones completes the journey of writing her novel An American Marriage.
Authors share their notes on writing in this series of micro craft essays. In the latest installment: finding the center of your story.
Authors share their notes on writing in this series of micro craft essays. In the latest installment: writing around tech in contemporary fiction.
Authors share their notes on writing in this series of micro craft essays. In the latest installment: finding the story that challenges you.
Fiction writer Danielle Lazarin discusses five journals that have published her short stories, some of which appear in her debut collection, Back Talk, forthcoming from Penguin Books in February.
The books editor at O, the Oprah Magazine discusses how she got her start in the literary world, the selection criteria behind Oprah’s Book Club picks, and her favorite books of the year.
Small Press Points highlights the innovation and can-do spirit of independent presses. This issue features the Hilo, Hawai’i–based Saddle Road Press.
Page One offers the first lines of a dozen new and noteworthy books, including Wild Is the Wind by Carl Phillips and No Time to Spare by Ursula K. Le Guin.
Melanie Janisse-Barlow turns the tables on a long tradition of poets finding their muse in visual art through her Poets Series project, a collection of painted portraits of poets.
A free online archive collects writing from more than 1,200 incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people, as well as correctional officers and prison staff, from across the country.
Illustrator and author Edward Carey talks to the editor in chief of Poets & Writers about art, hope, and seeing the light amid darkness.
A look at some of the most exciting first books of poetry published in 2017, including WHEREAS by Layli Long Soldier and Calling a Wolf a Wolf by Kaveh Akbar.