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What Albert Camus’s <em>The Stranger</em> Says About Our Contemporary Anxieties

What Albert Camus’s The Stranger Says About Our Contemporary Anxieties

Kate Christensen on Finding Inspiration in the Existentialist Classic

By Kate Christensen | November 30, 2023

Never-Ending Nostalgia: Who and What Inspired Willa Cather

Never-Ending Nostalgia: Who and What Inspired Willa Cather

Benjamin Taylor on the Early Years of America's Chronicler of the Great Plains

By Benjamin Taylor | November 15, 2023

Write Who You Love: J. Ryan Stradal on Memorializing His Mother Through Fiction

Write Who You Love: J. Ryan Stradal on Memorializing His Mother Through Fiction

"Over time I learned how to stare into that loss, a loss that brought more pain and longing than I’d ever felt, and pull her back through it."

By J. Ryan Stradal | October 16, 2023

A Crisis of Faith: Pauls Toutonghi on Finding Purpose in Creativity

A Crisis of Faith: Pauls Toutonghi on Finding Purpose in Creativity

"I had created something—something that I’d honestly thought of as maybe a little brilliant but also maybe a little crazy."

By Pauls Toutonghi | October 5, 2023

Skill Plus Inspiration: Wylie Dufresne Offers His Recipe for Becoming a Chef

Skill Plus Inspiration: Wylie Dufresne Offers His Recipe for Becoming a Chef

"That’s the wonderful thing about cooking is that it’s a never-ending opportunity for education."

By Wylie Dufresne | August 4, 2023

Stranger Than Fiction: When Your Life Starts to Resemble Your Novel

Stranger Than Fiction: When Your Life Starts to Resemble Your Novel

Sandra A. Miller on Writing about True Events... and Living Fictional Ones

By Sandra A. Miller | July 13, 2023

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Gerald Stern on the Accidental Beginnings of Poems

By Gerald Stern | January 6, 2023

Getting Reinspired to Write... Again... For the New Year!

By Memoir Nation | January 3, 2023

Healing, Then Writing: Confronting Writer's Block in the Early Years of Sobriety

By Matthew Quick | November 14, 2022

Funny, Fearless, and Unafraid to Fail: Finding Creative Inspiration in Comedy Podcasts

Funny, Fearless, and Unafraid to Fail: Finding Creative Inspiration in Comedy Podcasts

Rebecca Ackermann on Learning to Write to a Soundtrack of Riffing Comedians

By Rebecca Ackermann | November 10, 2022

My New Novel Wasn’t Coming Together. Until I Put Some Googly Eyes on My Roomba.

My New Novel Wasn’t Coming Together. Until I Put Some Googly Eyes on My Roomba.

TJ Klune on an Unlikely Source of Literary Inspiration

By TJ Klune | July 27, 2022

"There's no invention in the void." Read a letter from J.R.R. Tolkien on the origins of Middle-earth.

By Emily Temple | July 15, 2022

Finding the Kinship Between Manifestations of Creativity and Depression

Finding the Kinship Between Manifestations of Creativity and Depression

Gia de Cadenet on Making Sense of the Raw Material

By Gia de Cadenet | March 14, 2022

The Beauty of Impermanence: Finding Inspiration in Renoir’s Fugitive Pigments

The Beauty of Impermanence: Finding Inspiration in Renoir’s Fugitive Pigments

Jennifer Murphy on Choosing a Vibrant Life

By Jennifer Murphy | March 7, 2022

Learning, Practice, and Repetition: Why the Act of Writing Is Work

Learning, Practice, and Repetition: Why the Act of Writing Is Work

Jessie Greengrass on the Intersection of Muse and Routine

By Jessie Greengrass | January 5, 2022

How Being a Stalled Novelist Led to an Unexpected Career in Data Science

How Being a Stalled Novelist Led to an Unexpected Career in Data Science

C.J. Washington on the Frustrating Struggle to Get Published

By C.J. Washington | January 3, 2022

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