Craft Capsules

The author of The Boundaries of Their Dwelling explores fiction’s holy commandments—and when a writer has license to defy them.

The author of The Boundaries of Their Dwelling counts the many ways a novelist may get lost, but ultimately find a way through, a book project. 

The author of The White Mosque considers how writing holds space for the accidental, the random, and the stray.

The author of The White Mosque offers an ode to intertextuality.

The author of Selected Books of the Beloved illuminates the power of narrative to move a poem forward.

The author of Selected Books of the Beloved reflects on the sonic pleasures of verse and offers an exercise in attending to poetry’s music.

The author of Animal Joy: A Book of Laughter and Resuscitation considers the link between the author’s emotional state while writing and the reader’s engagement.

The author of Took House explores a kinder approach to revision, in which language cut during one editorial process may be saved as material for a new writing project.

The author of [WHITE] considers how writers might take inspiration from visual artists in their approach to revision, pushing beyond surface editing to “see” their work afresh.

The author of [WHITE] shares how experimenting with found texts can energize the poetic process and expand a poet’s lyric repertoire.