Joan Didion’s Close Reading Technique, MFA Debate Continues, and More
No winner chosen for 2015 AWP Creative Nonfiction prize; Benjamin Moser on the fiction of Clarice Lispector; Mississippi authors urge legislators to change state flag; and other news.
Facing the Blank Page
"Filling the blank page is agony." Daniel Kehlmann, author of Measuring the World (Pantheon, 2006), shares his feellings on first drafts and the joyful satisfaction of writing in longhand.
The Rise of Climate Fiction, Finding Work-Life Balance as a Writer, and More
Amazon’s cutthroat work environment; design a book cover for Infinite Jest’s twentieth anniversary; Ann Rice calls online criticism of controversial books “the new censorship”; and other news.
Anne Enright
"I think the short story is fast, that it can say things that other forms can't say because it's not going to say them for long." Anne Enright, whose novel The Green Road (Norton, 2015) is longlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize, talks to Vincent Woods about her interest in the short story form.
Ken Waldman
Poet and musician Ken Waldman recording in the Ampersand studio on July 20, 2015.
Joshua Bodwell and Anne Beattie
Poets & Writers Magazine contributor Joshua Bodwell and fiction writer Anne Beattie in East Boothbay, Maine, on July 25, 2015.
Marathon Reading of The Iliad Begins, T. S. Eliot Essay Published in English for the First Time, and More
Little Free Library vandalized; Claire Messud’s reasons for writing fiction; Obama’s summer reading list; and other news.



