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Words and sketches from Gail Godwin’s upcoming novel Flora.
Manuscript pages from The Blue Flower and The Bookshop.
Up north people hunt bears using gummy bears as bait.
The handwritten first draft pages of Robert Olen Butler's first novel.
I returned to Vietnam with a tape recorder to collect ca dao.
I’m a theatrical lyricist. I would never choose to look fat in public.
When I grow up I want to be one of the horses of the Apocalypse.
New cartoons from P. C. Vey, Shannon Wheeler, Pete Mueller, and more!
New cartoons from Glen LeLievre, Liza Donnelly, and more!
Kim Warp
I rented a house in the woods of East Hampton as a form of therapy.
Diane cupped my cheek in her hand, studying me, memorizing me.
We are teachers so maybe we can help something change, tap into something.
An in-depth audio interview with Ann Beattie on her writing.
Frank Conroy
Audio clips of Pultizer Prize winner Jennifer Egan on her work.
Do the work. Every day. Take a step back and see if you love it.
His beginnings, his genesis as a writer, and the fateful connections between life and art.
She wondered if tomorrow would fill her with so strange a stirring.
Your writing may need to be ruthless or amoral to be original.
How many times had I passed it in a taxicab or walked within sight of it?
Now he’s grazing my books. The Bible is his favorite so far. He is a goat.
Diane Kirsten Martin
Despair: Janet Burroway’s first Narrative Magazine six-word story.
I was creating art instead of counting beans like everyone else.
The intention of the writer is irrelevant to the success of the story.
