The Private Dwelling: Three Poets on Keeping (and Destroying) Journals
Writers discuss what prompted them to start or return to journal writing, and why sometimes it’s better to destroy rather than preserve such catalogues of the past.
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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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Why We Write: My Father’s Voice
A daily phone call from India spurs an emerging writer to complete her first novel.
Perversity of Spirit: What It Takes to Be a Writer
One author argues that talent is the least important part of becoming a writer.
Why We Write: The Wounded and Enduring
Through her work with the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop, a poet discovers that writing can grant a type of freedom to incarcerated men—and in the process finds her own sense of peace in the wake of personal trauma.
The Art of Reading Lauren Slater
In her genre-defying book Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir, published in 2000 by Random House, Lauren Slater toys with the conventions of fact, fiction, memory, and art, introducing fabricated occurrences and physical conditions to unveil the truth of her experience—and of the human condition.
Historic Giovanni’s Room Closes Its Doors, New York City's Secret Libraries, and More
Posman Books readies its fourth store; the argument for free digital libraries; Edwidge Danticat on sugar factories in the Dominican Republic; and other news.
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Ghost in the Machine: A Typewriter, a Postcard, and the Objects of Memory
A writer’s search for a typewriter brings her face to face with both present and past, and helps her understand ideas of friendship, memory, connection, and loss.
Where We Write: Kansas
Years after leaving her family farm in Kansas, a memoirist discovers meaning in her work while revisiting the past, and exploring her family’s relationship to the land.
Labor of Love: The Anthology from Conception to Publication
Two novelists discuss the excitement and challenges of editing an anthology of essays.
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