Holiday Catalog: Picks for Kids!
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Fiction, Essays & MoreWriters on Writing
On Finding Your Material
Sheila Kohler
Finding our material is one of the most essential parts of our work as writers. It is difficult, first, to find material with heat—dangerous...
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Fiction, Essays & MoreWriters on Writing
What's in a Title?
Erika Dreifus
I learned lessons about “quiet” fiction back in 2001, when a literary agent began circulating my first book-length fiction manuscript...
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Fiction, Essays & MoreWriters on Writing
Writers and Self-Sabotage
Bonnie Friedman
I used to induce in myself awful states of envy. It took years to notice what I was doing, though, because it was so counter-intuitive
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Fiction, Essays & MoreWriters on Writing
Getting Unstuck
Caroline Leavitt
If you’re a writer, you know the routine. You’re halfway in the middle of your novel or story and suddenly you feel stuck
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Fiction, Essays & MoreWriters on Writing
Huskies, Hackneys
Roxana Robinson
All the fiction I write arises from the same sort of impulse: it’s a feeling of discomfort, a kind of unspecified anxiety, a need to uncover...
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Fiction, Essays & MoreWriters on Writing
What Do You Call a Text with No Arms and No Legs and No Head?
John Madera
Writing, sensu stricto, is also a visual art, and thus, the question of what visual artist or particular work of visual art has provided inspiration...
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Fiction, Essays & MoreWriters on Writing
In Search of the Perfect P.O.V.
Pamela Erens
Once upon a time I thought I could learn to write like George Eliot or Henry James. I wanted to be able to say things about my characters like...
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Book Recs
Junior Edition #27
Celia McGee
Featuring books by Charlotte Voake, Roddy Doyle, Judith Robbins Rose, and Chitra Viraraghavan!
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Book RecsAuthor Picks
Five Essential Books About Politics
Thomas Mallon
The author of Finale: A Novel of the Reagan Years, selects five books that expose, examine, and reimagine politics.
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Book Recs
Junior Edition #26
Celia McGee
Featuring books by Dr. Seuss, Rebecca Bond, Lesley M.M. Blume, and Daria Wilke!
