Reading Time: 1 Min. 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 […]
Reading Time: 1 Min. 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 […]
Reading Time: 1 Min. The following is from Balsam Karam’s The Singularity . Karam (b. 1983) is of Kurdish ancestry and has lived in Sweden since she was a young child. She is an author and librarian and made her literary debut in 2018 with the critically acclaimed Event Horizon , which was shortlisted for […]
Reading Time: 1 Min. From earliest memory, I knew that my aunt worked in book publishing. As an editor of children’s books at a large, corporate publisher, she would send me boxes upon boxes of cast-offs that she’d find around the office. Even before I had learned how to read, I would thumb through these […]
Reading Time: 1 Min. Thomas Hardy with his second wife, Florence. Photograph: Getty Images An exhaustive biography of Thomas Hardy’s romantic life is most fascinating when it chronicles his complicated menage with his wife and a young typist If only I had the talent, I would write the play. The year: 1910, or thereabouts. The […]
Reading Time: 1 Min. 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, […]
Reading Time: 1 Min. 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 […]
Reading Time: 1 Min. 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 […]
Reading Time: 1 Min. 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 […]
Reading Time: 1 Min. The Tiny Secret To Writing A Dating Profile That Attracts The Kind Of Guy You Want The idea of learning how to write a dating profile to get a guy to like you on online dating sites like OkCupid and Match or apps like Tinder, Bumble, and Hinge rubs me the […]
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