Why We Write: The Unwilling Suspension of Disbelief
Writing through trauma isn’t always a healing experience. A poet and novelist investigates the complexities and challenges of writing with post-traumatic stress disorder.
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Department: The Literary Life
The Art of Reading James Baldwin: The Truth of Our Pain
A close look at how the Notes of a Native Son author’s religious contentions permeate through the wisdom and imagination of his prose.
The Time Is Now: Writing Prompts and Exercises
Use found language to compose a poem, incorporate video games into a story, or write an essay on selflessness—three prompts to bring your writing to life this winter.
Writing as Redemption: Rewriting a Scene to Rewrite Your Life
For the author whose new novel, The Gypsy Moth Summer, is out now, it took over two decades of writing and rewriting the same scene from her childhood to fully understand—and make peace with—her past.
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Patience and Memoir: The Time It Takes to Tell Your Story
It took Joyce Maynard twenty-five years of reflection, distance, and understanding to write her first memoir. But when tragedy struck later in life, her second memoir came much more quickly.
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How Deep This Grief: Wrestling With Writing As Therapy
After the sudden death of his sister, an author shifts his focus from trying to write through grief to writing a book for the person he lost.
Why We Write: With Deepest Gratitude
After the death of her son, a writer copes with immeasurable loss and grief through a daily practice: writing more than two hundred thank-you notes.
Patience and Memoir: The Time it Takes to Tell Your Story
It took Joyce Maynard twenty-five years of reflection, distance, and understanding before she was able to write her first memoir. But when tragedy struck later in life, her second memoir came much more quickly.
The Time Is Now: Writing Prompts and Exercises
Quoth “The Raven” for inspiration, compose a campus story, or petition for your own state beverage—three prompts to carry you through the fall.
Rejection Slips: On Not Getting Into the New Yorker
Best-selling author Daniel Wallace (Big Fish) has been submitting short stories to the New Yorker for more than thirty years, and has yet to receive a letter of acceptance. What he did receive, however, was a surprising friendship...
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