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media debate • books • movies

On page one, older brother Ira drunkenly insults his mama.

why I write • faith • visual art

If I do things just right, the terror of the empty page won’t rise up and engulf me.

advice • teaching • interviews

A thousand of your competitors are writing about life in New York. Who's competing with you to write about life in your town?

fiction • memoir • writer's life

Sometimes I think creativity can only be released when you’re so goddamned bored there’s nothing else to do.

featured poets • poetry spotlights

Happy holidays from Talking Writing! As a gift to yourself, try the writerly 'New Year's Challenge' offered with this piece.

from adoption to writerly sins...

We inherit our passions—perhaps from critics like Douglas Crimp, perhaps from professors like Ross.