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I Never Feel That I Write Alone
I’m grateful to all of you who’ve shared this space with me.
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What Writers Gain From Mentorship
A conversation with Vauhini Vara about mentoring writers of color and expanding access to literary spaces
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‘A Living Remedy’ Is Out Now
The writing, I often remind myself, is the best part. We’ll keep at it together.
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The Atlantic ‘A Common American Death’
It is hard for me not to think of my father’s death as a kind of negligent homicide, facilitated and sped by the United States’ broken safety net and strained systems of care.
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Writing About the Dead
Someone recently asked me if my parents’ deaths freed me to write about them. If anything, I feel an even greater sense of responsibility to our story.
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Photo-illustration by Trevor Davis. Sources: Courtesy of Matthew … The Family Who Tried to End Racism Through Adoption
Bob and Sheryl Guterl saw their family as a kind of “ark for the age of the nuclear bomb” and attempted to gather “two of every race.”
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A Year of Notes
‘What is one thing you can do to benefit your writing life?’ This whole year has been that for me.
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Sabrina Imbler: ‘Wonder Is the Animating Force Behind a Lot of My Stories’
“I want to help people think about all the different ways there are to live and to try to keep living.”
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Writing Isn’t About Finding the Right Answer
What to do when you get stuck working around a project instead of writing it, and how to talk with students about reading and writing
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‘Ultimately the Story Will Have Its Own Say’: A Conversation With Morgan Talty
“If you want a reader to follow you to the darkest places, you have to make them laugh too.”
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Building a Writing Practice From Scratch
Plus: How to pitch ideas that editors will publish
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What Adoption ‘Salvation’ Narratives Get Wrong
“The implication, whether people realized it or not, was that I was worth ‘saving,’ but my birth family wasn’t.”
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‘Break All the Rules You Can’: A Conversation With Poet Christopher Soto
“I believe that literature can create material change and open new worlds that haven’t existed before.”
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When You Fear That Your Writing Doesn’t Measure Up to Your Ambitions
It’s worth being curious about our ambitions, and open to reframing or adjusting them as we go.
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When You Need a Little Nudge to Write
Here are some of the strategies and shortcuts that help me focus and get back to writing, even when I feel the worst about it.
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The Common Thread in R. Eric Thomas’s Genre-Spanning Process
The best-selling writer talks about writing prose, plays, and television scripts: “I’m really just listening for people’s voices.”
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You’re Not Always Telling the Story You Think
There are more truths to be found in one story than even the writer is capable of imagining.
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Do Authors Need an Online Platform?
Plus: finding a writing routine that works for you, and making the most of the time you have
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How Jasmine Guillory Plots Out Her Best-Selling Books
From messy first drafts to revision spreadsheets, the author shares tips and insights from her own writing life.
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When the Story You’re Writing Changes
One of the hardest things to do was to let go of the story I thought I would write.
