Ten Questions for Beth Morgan
“Engaging with art doesn’t have to be about understanding something or getting the right answer.” —Beth Morgan, author of A Touch of Jen
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Craft Capsule: A Poem Called Love
The author of Love and Other Poems offers an antidote to the usual despair and hysteria on Twitter by writing an endless poem about love.
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Craft Capsule: Technically It’s a Ravioli
The author of With Teeth celebrates absurdist humor.
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Craft Capsule: On Copycats and Reply Guys
The author of With Teeth writes about the pleasure of riffing off a good joke.
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Telling #Stories: Can Social Media Make Us Better Writers?
The effects of social media on the creative process—although it can help writers identify and pay attention to the quotidian moments of their lives, does it siphon off their storytelling energy?
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Postcard From the Pandemic: Tolstoy Under Quarantine
Reading Tolstoy’s War and Peace as part of a virtual book club hosted by Yiyun Li and A Public Space has become a comforting ritual during the pandemic.
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Instapoets Prove Powerful in Print
The influence of Instagram on the way we read poetry.
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Read This Now: Becoming Your Own Publicist
From embracing the Internet to leveraging blurbs, a debut novelist offers strategies for publicizing your own book, an imperative for many authors publishing with small presses whose limited budgets preclude broad publicity campaigns.
The Written Image: Eda Temucin
On her Instagram account, German artist Eda Temucin pairs found artwork with book covers, uncovering striking similarities between contemporary visual art and literary design.
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Squirl App Maps Literary Hot Spots
Complete with maps, relevant passages, summaries, and links to booksellers, a new app tracks the real-life places found in books, allowing readers to discover and interact with literature in a whole new way.
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