Writing Process

The writer on her new collection of seventy-eight stories, lyrical compression, and protecting artistic inner silence.

The writer on her new story collection, working sentence by sentence, and giving in to her influences.

The author on writing about the swell before a war, factual inaccuracy as surrealism, and taking a jab at our own heedlessness.

The debut novelist on her literary influences, informal storytelling, and the imaginative possibilities of walking.

The writer discusses growing up in the Borscht Belt, the prevalence of literary humor, and the power of feminist punch lines.

The celebrated Argentine novelist on writing about writers, avoiding labels, and why critics shouldn’t write fiction.

The Restless Souls novelist on reading his reviews, working as a medical equipment tester, and writing responsibly about war and trauma.
A New York City public defender and author of a self-published bestseller returns with his third novel, Lost Empress. Sources range from quantum physics to the gospel.

Writer and vocalist Keckler performs impersonations of obscure larger-than-life personalities he meets. In her first novel, Laing impersonates Kathy Acker.

The Freshwater author on the ogbanje, Igbo, rejecting gender binaries, and using private journals as creative archives.

The debut novelist of Self-Portrait with Boy on the DUMBO of the 1990s, accidental art, and the importance of being unladylike.
Pathos, swallows, Hölderlin: a sense of the everyday and its interruptions guide the Austrian writer’s “tender prose.”