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media debate • books • movies

Do Fans Love Authors or Their Books?

Theme Essay by Martha Nichols

I'd rather a writer like Díaz grabs some of the action than, say, Justin Bieber.

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inspiration
why I write • faith • visual art

Me and F. Scott Against the World

Essay by Jay Owens

At its worst, contemporary online style bears a disturbing resemblance to the cheery falseness of advertising.

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craft
advice • teaching • interviews

Mark Brazaitis on Writing

Interview by Kelcey Parker

When I was growing up, I didn't have posters of rock bands on my bedroom walls. I had pictures of Leo Tolstoy, Ivan Turgenev, and Fyodor Dostoevsky.

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stories
fiction • memoir • writer's life

Kelli Russell Agodon
Author Talk: Kelli Russell Agodon

Podcast Interview by John Vogel

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poetry
featured poets • poetry spotlights

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Athena Kildegaard: Three “Still Life” Poems

TW Poetry Spotlight

From a distance it could be a landscape, the vanishing point beyond the table's far edge.

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hot topics
from adoption to writerly sins...

Reverberating Spaces

Image Essay by Jeff and Lois Shelden

Buildings and other objects carry the words and thoughts of those who made them and those who lived in, used, or otherwise interacted with them.

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