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Craft Capsule: Cut for Time

The author of The Prettiest Star recommends keeping a novel-dedicated notebook for ideas, research, and informal experiments.
Craft Capsule: Catalogues, Cetaceans, and Casey Kasem

The author of The Prettiest Star explores a variety of archives to help him capture the specific spirit and look of the eighties.
Craft Capsule: Obsessions, Hobbies, Dreams

The author of The Prettiest Star shares strategies and questions that help him get to know his characters.
Between Worlds: A Q&A With Poet Kiki Petrosino

The author of White Blood: A Lyric of Virginia discusses definitions of poetry, ancestral silence, and unpacking American history’s “white blood.”
Hugo House
Founded in 1997, the Hugo House offers writing classes and events, including the annual Hugo Literary Series, which invites established and up-and-coming writers to create new work and debut it at the house, and the Zine Archive and Publishing Project, which maintains a library of more than 20,000 handmade and independent publications. Residencies, one for an established writer and one for a youth writers, are also offered.

Sharon Olds at the Workshop: Postcard From Paris

The 16th annual Paris Writers Workshop wrapped up on July 5 after a week-long schedule of workshops, lectures, readings, and walking tours.
Morgan Library & Museum
A complex of buildings in the heart of New York City, the Morgan Library & Museum began as the private library of financier Pierpont Morgan (1837–1913), one of the preeminent collectors and cultural benefactors in the United States. As early as 1890 Morgan had begun to assemble a collection of illuminated, literary, and historical manuscripts, early printed books, and old master drawings and prints.

House Hunting: Finding a Home for Your Characters

A fiction writer’s habit of imagining the lives of people who live in her favorite houses leads to serious research for her novel.
An Interview With Creative Nonfiction Writer William T. Vollmann

The author of fifteen books, including eight novels, three short story collections, a memoir, and a ten-volume treatise on the nature and ethics of violence, William T. Vollmann is often associated with his most controversial subjects—crack and prostitution among them. He is also characterized by a few signature stunts, such as firing a pistol during his readings and kidnapping a girl who had been sold into prostitution and turning her over to a relief agency while writing an article for Spin magazine.
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