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Arts Jan 13

How Terese Marie Mailhot stopped writing what other people wanted

By Courtney Vinopal

Arts Oct 08

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Why author Adam Winkler doesn’t wait for inspiration to start writing

"I sit down at the computer every weekday morning and begin to write, even if I feel blocked or don’t have much to say," says Winkler, author of "We the Corporations."…

By Elizabeth Flock

Arts Sep 11

Why writer Sally Rooney stopped tying up loose ends in ‘Conversations With Friends’

"Once I identified that impulse, and reasoned myself out of it, I wrote the final scene as it is now – and I felt the novel was finished," Rooney said.

By Elizabeth Flock

Arts Aug 09

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How reading ‘The Woman Warrior’ put Celeste Ng’s feelings into words

"It was so close to my experience, it was almost painful," says the best-selling author.

By Elizabeth Flock

Arts Jul 12

Author Ann Patchett and book critic Carlos Lozada outline their top books of 2018. Photo by Getty Images
‘Read, read, read to stoke the furnace,’ and more writing advice from Luis Alberto Urrea

Urrea, who wrote this month's book club pick, "The House of Broken Angels," shares the best writing advice he's received.

By Elizabeth Flock

Dec 10

Writing has ‘got to be weird before it gets good,’ says Casey Gerald

By Elizabeth Flock

Casey Gerald, author of the memoir "There Will Be No Miracles Here," says his editor is the first person "to ever seriously hold space for me to be fully, strangely, magically myself, in my work."…

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