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Academic writing is suffering an obfuscatory malaise. But it can be beaten…

Brenda Wineapple: Conundrum of the 19th-Century American Writer

‘The art of making excerpts (ars excerpendi) was an essential scholarly technique.’

Let’s put bad writing to work

Slideshow:

In Praise of the Typewriter

Comic strip: The Road: Scenes From the Post-Print Apocalypse

Tales about women who “lie down for artists,” in the service of their own writing

‘Then J.D. Salinger pitched me his story, like an unknown…’

Lunch with America’s loser laureate

Remix lit

Audio slideshow:

Tina Chang on the Birth of a Poem

Rule 8. ‘It’s doubtful that anyone with an internet connection at his workplace is writing good fiction.’

(Read part two of ‘Ten rules for writing fiction’)

(Five pieces of reader’s advice to writers)

Turning 100 this year, will Dorothea Tanning get the celebration she deserves?

(Read Elif Batuman: Into the Eisenshpritz)

Wondrous Frank Kermode

‘Writers have apparently always loathed and envied other members of the tribe: more famous, better paid, more fawning reviews, undeserved canonization.’

Jennifer Meleana Hee crushed her father’s Americano-Chinaman dreams…

Don DeLillo discusses the influence of “24 Hour Psycho” on his latest novel