Writer's Life

Author Talk: Kelli Russell Agodon

Jun 12, 2023

Podcast Interview by John Vogel

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On Writing Another Novel

Nov 14, 2022

Essay by Rebecca Steinitz

It’s particularly hard when it takes so long to arrive back where you started: as a writer who has never published a novel.

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Ready or Not

Oct 04, 2021

Essay by Joan Frank

After a stunned period, I resumed querying agents. What else was there to do?

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Your Baby's Ugly

May 17, 2021

Essay by Joan Frank

People bring unknowable baggage to their readings—and to the author herself.

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The Diary of a Conservationist

Apr 19, 2021

Essay by Wendy Townsend

I want to go back to being a child, when I believed that protecting animals was something I could do.

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A Little Something for the Effort

Mar 22, 2021

Essay by Therese Beale

I knew this was one of those micro-moments in a marriage when it pays to take a breath.

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The Muse of Bad Poems

Mar 22, 2021

Poetry by Paula Bonnell

She says, “Just hum me a few bars” — as though you were the one in charge of this gig.

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A Menagerie of Writing Possibilities

Dec 21, 2020

Essay by Ronald J. Pelias

It knows the value in the discarded, knows the drama of the search.

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Elegy for a Curbside Poet

Nov 02, 2020

Essay by Khalil Elayan

I think now, in this time of violence and protest, of what Steve Cannon would say about the madness of some and the resolve of others.

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You’ve Made It

Sep 21, 2020

Essay by Joan Frank

It’s a constant re-reckoning: an existential dusting of hands, a hitching up of one’s pants.

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