Selling Out
"The writing felt as joyless as a bad marriage," says a fiction writer after completing a commercial nonfiction book.
Department: Feature
Hungry Mind Review
A Minnesota-based publication gives worthy books the attention they deserve and promotes Midwestern writers as well.
Loyalty Oaths: To Sign or Not To Sign
"Bureaucratic garbage" and "dismissable formality" or a real affront to personal and professional integrity? Confronted with signing for university teaching positions, two writers reflect on their different choices and prove there are no empty words.
Endeavor—Live Voices from Death Row
The men and women of Texas's death row struggle against silence by creating and publishing their own prison journal.
Our Sacred Objects
In search of the onor in honorariums—a short reflection.
In Our Own Write—Building a Lesbian and Gay Writers' Community
A Greenwich Village nonprofit organization and writer work together to start monthly reading series.
On Form and Formalism
Thoughts on the relationship between poetic shape and content.
Flyfishing at the Bookfair
"Only a fishing trip or a bookfair could motivate me to get up this early." A day in the life of a small press publisher.
Advice to the Prizelorn
"Know the rules, know your craft, know your audience." Judge and writer Nancy Mairs offers advice for entering writing contests.
An Interview with John Irving
"I think you do write about your own obsessions in a way that you hope may purge you of them." The best-selling author discusses his life and work.
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