Your special correspondent for the inability to read, write, or otherwise function during the pandemic is back. This time, it’s the writers of novels who are citing all sorts of… Read more »

With National Novel Writing Month reaching its final home stretch, now’s a good a time as any for some good old fashioned writing advice. Luckily, this discussion from Close Up… Read more »

At some point—who knows exactly when—the Writer, a white-haired white man in this fantasy, became the poster child for thoughtful interiority and private life. This writer took his time. He… Read more »

Last week, the prominent Ukrainian poet, novelist, and dissident Serhiy Zhadan was seized by government security forces in the Belarusian capital of Minsk, held overnight, and ordered to leave the country. As… Read more »

If Peter Clark’s report on Winter Institute was any indication, the bookselling community is hardly feeling complacent in the face of the drastically shifting American political landscape. The same thing can… Read more »

Existing outside the history of literature is the shadow history of lost books. Whether stolen, destroyed, or simply surrendered to obscurity, these works live on only as a promise of… Read more »

Recently at the Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) conference in Minneapolis, Melville House publisher Dennis Johnson organized and moderated a panel about the many partnership opportunities for authors and independent… Read more »

Zadie Smith and other prominent female writers have reacted against an article published by The Atlantic entitled: ‘The Secret to Being Both a Successful Writer and a Mother: Have Just… Read more »

Bill Lasarow, publisher and co-editor of Visual Arts Source and former Huffington Post contributor, has gone on strike to protest the site’s practice of not paying for much of the… 2 / Read more »