The Writing Life

On the Gift (and Weight) of Winning a “Free” House

Anne Elizabeth Moore Considers the Cost of a House in Detroit

 
By Anne Elizabeth Moore  October 27, 2021
The Writing Life

How Do You Write About People Who Don’t Want To Be Written About?

By Ethan Lou  October 18, 2021
The Writing Life

Saying a Few Words About My Novel at the Aphasia Self-Help Group

By Jon McGregor  September 29, 2021
The Writing Life

From Exobiology and Geology to… Writing Fiction?

By Linda Rui Feng  September 17, 2021
The Writing Life

“Maybe More People Should Have Writer’s Block.” In Which Joy Williams Responds to Our Questions Via Typewriter

By Joy Williams  September 14, 2021
The Writing Life

The Painful Cost of the Writing Life

By James Tate Hill  August 9, 2021
The Writing Life

Alix Ohlin on Navigating the Rich Literary Territory of Dysfunctional Family Dynamics

By Jane Ciabattari  July 27, 2021
The Writing Life

John Cheever and Djuna Barnes, Patron Literary Saints of Suburbia and Bohemia, Died This Day in 1982.

By Jonny Diamond  June 18, 2021
The Writing Life

“I Wanted to Be on Fire.” On the Connection Between Art and Self-Destruction

By Bridget Collins  May 19, 2021
The Writing Life

The Agony and the Ecstasy of Publishing Your Work in a Literary Magazine

By Erica Jenks Henry  May 18, 2021
The Writing Life

When an Apparition of Virginia Woolf Interrupts Your Writing Process

By Rachel Eisendrath  May 13, 2021
The Writing Life

Half Lives and Long Drives:
An Interview with Anne Carson and Robert Currie

By Sara Elkamel  May 12, 2021
The Writing Life

The Long Road to Publication: An Interview with Anjali Enjeti

By Devi S. Laskar  April 29, 2021
The Writing Life

Bio-Waste: How Important Are Author Bios Anyway?

By Jason Guriel  April 12, 2021
The Writing Life

How the Barbizon Gave Sylvia Plath and Joan Didion Freedom and Creative Autonomy

By Paulina Bren  March 19, 2021
The Writing Life

On the Pact That Helped Me Finally Finish My Book… After Four Decades

By Margaret Hermes  March 19, 2021
The Writing Life

Sixty Years of Tracking Publications… and Rejections

By Jay Neugeboren  March 18, 2021
The Writing Life

After Images: Encountering the Work of Beverley Farmer

By Josephine Rowe  March 11, 2021
The Writing Life

Dealing with Mysterious Pain While Being a Writer

By Sara Davis  March 4, 2021
The Writing Life

When a Young Literary Star Refuses the Spotlight

By Simon Leser  February 26, 2021
The Writing Life

Vendela Vida on Finding Humor in the Darker Side of
Teenage Life

By Jane Ciabattari  February 9, 2021
The Writing Life

Living Through Lockdown Showed Me That Writing Is a Lot Like Digging

By Anne Youngson  January 29, 2021
The Writing Life

Embracing Imperfection: On Writing in a Second Language

By Kaori Fujimoto  January 27, 2021
The Writing Life

Jamie Harrison on Finding Her Way to the Writer’s Life in the American West

By Thomas McGuane  January 7, 2021
The Writing Life

What Drew German Novelist Uwe Johnson to a Tiny English Island Off the Coast of Kent?

By Patrick Wright  December 11, 2020
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