Madeleine Thien on Writers’ Block

Michael Chabon on Writing

For the next few weeks I’m going to be gallivanting in the USA with my husband and son, frolicking on Waikiki beach, catching…

When we first started dating, almost thirteen years ago, my husband bought me a gift subscription to iconic journal The Paris Review, which…

You’ve got the wrong idea of what writers do. They don’t understand any more than other people. They invent only plots they can…

…How easy it is, like coming home must once have been, for those who’d had homes. Walking through the doorway into the familiar,…

There’s the story, then there’s the real story, then there’s the story of how the story came to be told. The there’s what…

When they were younger, the exchange of words, of ideas, was important. But later, less so. He believes that the human body has…

How do you make a book that anyone will read out of lives as quiet as these? Where are the things that novelists…

The most important thing of all in dialogue is not the text at all, but the subtext. That’s where the deeper meaning is…