Stories That Sing: A Profile of Michael Williams
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The Written Image: Sorted Books
In her Sorted Books project, Nina Katchadourian arranges books from libraries—including William S. Burroughs’s personal collection, as well as those housed in museums and galleries across the country, to find a kind of poetry in the spines.
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Ethnicity and Craft: Creating Characters, not Caricatures
A writer and editor shares her thoughts, as well as lessons learned from authors such as Junot Díaz, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Celeste Ng, on writing of and from a culture that may be foreign to the reader: what do we explain, italicize, or translate? How do we navigate the divide between the ethnicity of a writer or character and that of her audience?
Feckless Pondering: Emotional Beats and the Art of Repose
A case for balancing action with introspection in fiction, in order to avoid “gumming up the gears of your story.”
More Ideas Faster: Writing With Abandon
A writer learns that letting go of the need for perfectionism and allowing the creative impulse to guide the mind fluidly and freely can revitalize the practice of writing.
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This Thing I Made: Letterpress Meets High Tech at the IPRC
Writers take bookmaking into their own hands at Portland, Oregon’s Independent Publishing Resource Center.
Coming Home to Writing: Exile and Literary Citizenship
Having left her home in Havana as a refugee at the age of three, an author explores the truth of what it means to be a writer in exile.
Where We Write: New York City Via Bavaria, Germany
Learning to inhabit a new country and language helps a German-born writer discover her voice and understand how that voice hinges on the place in which she lives.
Charles Wright Begins Poet Laureate Term, Lena Dunham Kicks Off Book Tour, and More
Finalists for Kirkus Prize announced; National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35; Lee Child on why the Amazon-Hachette battle matters; and other news.
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The Problem of Entitlement: A Question of Respect
A writer and workshop instructor grapples with what he sees as an increasing resistance toward the work of established authors among writing students.
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