Click here to view original web page at Qian Julie Wang on Commuting, People-Watching, and Letting the Story Marinate “I delete and demolish with zeal.” Qian Julie Wang’s Beautiful Country is out now in paperback from Anchor, so we asked about her routine and the intersection of writing and litigating. What time of day do […]
Click here to view original web page at Maine writers turn page on new festival “Big Nate” creator Lincoln Peirce will be one of about 50 authors participating in the events of Maine Lit Fest, scheduled for Friday through Oct. 8. Avid readers will tell you it’s always a good time for a book festival. […]
Click here to view original web page at Yiyun Li on Writing Advice (the Good, the Bad) and the Books She Always Returns To Yiyun Li is the author of six works of fiction— Must I Go, Where Reasons End , Kinder Than Solitude , A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, The Vagrants , and […]
Click here to view original web page at Student wins Phi Beta Kappa award for undergraduate writing Junior Safyque xRichardson, a double major in creative writing and psychology, won the 2022 John D. Wilson Prize for her essay “Reduction to the Black Body: Brutality in The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.” Photo by […]
Click here to view original web page at Thomas C. Foster on the Seven Deadly Sins of Writing “You cannot let worry win.” The following first appeared in Lit Hub’s The Craft of Writing newsletter— sign up here . If you hang around the writing racket long enough, you will see every sort of writing […]
Click here to view original web page at Travel writing is still dominated by male voices. Alice got to have an adventure, so why can’t we all? Of all genres, travel writing has remained predominantly male – and aimed at men Women are underrepresented in travel writing (Photo: Westend61/Kike Arnaiz/Getty) I always longed for adventure, […]
Click here to view original web page at When Your OCD Therapy is Also a Treatment for Writers’ BlockBetween subway stops on the F train, on my way to see a psychopharmacologist for a headache I’d had for six months, I received another rejection from another agent for yet another draft of my book proposal. […]
Click here to view original web page at From the Stacks: Puzzles, writing meet in creative bookHave you ever wondered about the process that leads to the end result of what you read? You don’t get to see what comes before: the blank page starting to fill with thoughts, words assembling into sentences, phrases snipped, […]
Click here to view original web page at WHERE I’M WRITING FROM: Waiting for ‘the storm’ that would never comeI’m writing from a place of fear. My debut novel, “Don’t Know Tough,” was released on March 22, and six months later, I still fear the storm that could come of it. Luckily, I’m not alone. […]
Click here to view original web page at Saba Karim Khan on the journey of writing, publishing and finding your songFirst of all, tell us a bit about your journey. When did you realise that you wanted to be a writer? I grew up in Karachi, in a home filled with hand-written letters, books, ghazals […]
