The Creative Independent is a vast resource of emotional and practical guidance. We publish Guides , Focuses , Tips , Interviews , and more to help you thrive as a creative person. Explore our website to find wisdom that speaks to you and your practice… Prelude Claudia Dey Claudia Dey ’s third novel, Daughter (FSG […]
FIU alumni are authors of acclaimed books and poetry collections. Above are just four outstanding Panther grads. Left to right, clockwise: Dennis Lehane; Ana Menendez; Richard Blanco; and Ashley M. Jones To celebrate Florida’s Literacy Week, we share the success of FIU authors and poets changing the world with their words and feeding our love […]
Photo by Curology on Unsplash When I heard Venita Blackburn had a novel coming out, my desire to read it was palpable, a hunger. Her work is distinctive—it’s sharp, smart, and imaginative, often pushing voice and form—and her debut novel, Dead in Long Beach, California , is no exception. The novel follows Coral, a lonely […]
Writer-director Cord Jefferson on the set of ‘American Fiction’ On Tuesday, writer-director Cord Jefferson received his first Oscar nomination for American Fiction in Writing (Adapted Screenplay). Based on the novel Erasure by Percival Everett, American Fiction straddles the line between drama and satire to depict social commentary on microaggression and pigeonholing of Black creatives in […]
Bestselling author Kiley Reid’s early attempts to get published were met with a ‘flat out no’ Interview Reid’s first novel ‘Such a Fun Age’ was a literary sensation. As she publishes her second, she talks about cash, class and motherhood Six years ago, the author Kiley Reid was an unknown quantity, with several unpublished books […]
ON A VERY chilly Los Angeles evening (I could see my breath and wore a scarf!) I heard Natasha Stagg read from her latest book, Artless: Stories 2019–2023 ( Semiotext(e), 2023), alongside Jackie Wang and Chris Kraus at the Poetic Research Bureau in the Historic Filipinotown neighborhood. The literary trio drew a packed crowd of […]
For years, I avoided technology in my work. Despite my poor research habits, I’d set stories in the decades before my own birth, or worse, I’d construct the literary equivalent of a black box, a setting devoid of temporal artifacts where eternal human struggles could play out without the interference of pesky cell phones. This […]
The mother and child inhabit a domestic space that is insular, at times claustrophobic. Photograph: Guido Mieth/Getty Images From the shock and awe of labour to domestic isolation, a wave of recent novels captures the transformative nature of being a mother They say nothing prepares you. Before having my baby, I approached the literature of […]
Bob and Ed met at a San Francisco streetcar stop in 1970. The two men were in their early twenties. They had each come from watching the same film that evening, Andy Warhol and Paul Morrissey’s debauched landmark “Trash.” Ed, who wore a blue peacoat, his hair below his shoulders, spoke first. “I noticed you […]
CLICK TO HEAR JACK HALL’S INTERVIEW WITH VICTOR WORKMAN, UP PUBLISHERS ASSN Audio Player In its constant commitment to informing regional authors and publishers of the latest changes in the publishing world and offering effective marketing and writing innovations, the Upper Peninsula Publishers & Authors Association (UPPAA) will hold its 26th Annual Conference on Saturday, […]
