Craft and Creativity
Craft essays, criticism, and creative pieces. To get them in your inbox for free, join our newsletter.
Newest Features
Sincerity in Poetry
Poetry Recommendation: “Exiles” by Neil Shepard Out of his collection The Book of Failures. Exiles (after Adam Zagajewski) And don’t we all want a second life in order to process the first one? Don’t we all want a second childhood refunded at the end of days? My mother said, You’ll regret this for the rest of…
Rewriting Your Novel: How to Approach Revisions Without Overwhelm
Revising a novel can feel like a mountain of impossible work, especially if you don’t have the right tools for the climb. Maybe you’ve finished your first draft and feel a sense of accomplishment (as you should!), only to realize how much work still lies ahead. Or maybe, like many writers, the mere thought of…
Marrying Literature and Life
Joan Didion and New Journalism Good writing doesn’t construct, deconstruct, or reconstruct life, it simply explores it. Recently I’ve gotten more into creative nonfiction, and the transition has been a refreshing change of literary pace for me. One work I was long overdue on reading was Joan Didion’s The White Album (1979), an essay collection published in…