Tags: novels
The Thousand Pages: Tips for Transitioning to the Novel
The author of The Step Back offers strategies for short-story writers trying to draft a novel for the first time and shares how a new approach—aiming to pen a thousand pages—led to his first novel.
Books You May Have Missed in the Early Days of the Pandemic
The editors of Poets & Writers Magazine recommend fourteen books that were published in March 2020.
Infinite Country by Patricia Engel
Raft of Stars by Andrew J. Graff
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
Luster by Raven Leilani
Manuals for Living: What Our Favorite Novels Teach Us About Ourselves
We return to certain novels not only to be enchanted and inspired, to be transported out of ourselves, but also to know ourselves more deeply.
Angles of Experience: An Interview With Valeria Luiselli
In all of her writing, including five books, most recently the novel Lost Children Archive,Valeria Luiselli grapples with enormous questions about immigration, incarceration, and the invented spaces of language and identity.
A Talk in the Woods: Barbara Kingsolver and Richard Powers
A conversation between two best-selling authors turns into an impromptu master class in fiction under a canopy of leaves in southwestern Virginia.