September 2014 
Writing Under Another Name
Ronald Goldfarb
From the profound and historic to the commercial and modern, pseudonymous books have had a recurring role in literature.
Read more...
Writing the Z-Axis: Reflection in the Nonfiction Workshop
Sean Ironman
As I see a rise in the number of students studying the genre, editors I talk with at writing conferences and other literary events say they are in need of good nonfiction, that they don’t get enough submissions.
Read more...
An Interview with Philip Gerard
Frank Tascone
I really don’t believe in write what you know. I believe in write what you really want to find out about.
Read more...
I Dance For the Joy of Surviving: Stanley Kunitz’s Meditations on the Writing Life
Dante Di Stefano
Stanley Kunitz was a patient poet, a poet whose work gained nuance by accretion. However, as with any great poet, Kunitz’s body of work resists any neat trajectory.
Read more...
Raiding the Larder: Research in Fact-Based Fiction
Debra Spark
I love the work of all these writers, but what I want to examine here is a very different sort of writer. I want to look at writers who don’t seem to use their kitchen cupboards, who, if anything, raid other people’s larders.
Read more...
I Have Killed My Black Goat: Violence in Ai’s Poetry
Leslie McGrath
Few American poets have written as much or as effectively about violence as did Ai. The scope and persistence of violence throughout her poems was so unrelenting that it can be said that violence was Ai’s medium as much as clay might be a sculptor's.
Read more...
An Interview with Xu Xi
Jeanie Chung
I do believe that, as a writer, I can and even should tell the woman’s story in its myriad forms. As much as I enjoy hearing from male readers that I write sexy fiction, I love it even more when women are moved by what I have to say.
Read more...
