Annie Dillard

Busting Genre, in Style: Geoff Dyer on the Joy of Writing “Unpublishable” Books

George Makari Talks to the Author of “The Last Days of Roger Federer: And Other Endings”

 
By George Makari  April 11, 2024
The Hub

Annie Dillard’s “Total Eclipse” is the best thing you can read about the eclipse today.

By Emily Temple  April 8, 2024
On Care

How We Spend Our Days: On Wintering and the Value of Giving and Taking Care

By Amanda Parrish Morgan  December 14, 2023
The Craft of Writing

Beth Kephart on the Observational Lens

By Beth Kephart  December 1, 2023
Literary Journals

“We Want to Make It Feel Like a Party.” On the Transformation of Southwest Review

By Mark Haber  November 21, 2023
Writing the Novel

Trying to Find My Voice on the Page: On Self-Doubt and Finding the Confidence it Takes to Write

By Virginia Pye  November 6, 2023
In Conversation

Finding Resonance in the Unreal: A Conversation Between Sam Knight and Sarah Krasnostein

By Sarah Krasnostein  June 1, 2022
Criticism

Deep, Deep Time: On the “Cosmic Realism” of Kathryn Davis

By Anthony Domestico  February 16, 2022
The Craft of Writing

Annie Dillard on How Writers Learn to Trust Instinct

By Annie Dillard  January 14, 2022
Book Collection

What I Learned While Cataloguing an Entire Library of 19th-Century Schoolbooks

By Kim Beil  November 4, 2021
Writing

Unlearning the Sunk Cost Fallacy, in Writing and in Love

By Hazel Hayes  October 25, 2021
The Hub

“Write as if you were dying.” Read Annie Dillard’s greatest writing advice.

By Walker Caplan  April 30, 2021
Essays

Phillip Lopate Considers America’s Post-WWII Essay Boom

By Phillip Lopate  April 5, 2021
Criticism

The Internet Novel Is As Chaotic As Your Twitter Feed

By Maddie Crum  May 1, 2020
Self-Help?

Why I Hide From Writerly Dread in the Pages of Self-Help

By Chelsea Leu  February 21, 2020
The Best of 2019

Some of Our Favorite Writers on the Best Books They Read in 2019

By Freeman's   December 20, 2019
Marriage

The Painter’s Wife vs. The Poet’s Husband: Portrait of a Marriage

By Shawna Lemay  August 6, 2019
Essay

How to Grieve For Your Friend and Mentor

By Amy Jo Burns  December 18, 2018
Essay

The Bottomless Generosity of the Writer’s Memoir

By Larissa Pham  April 18, 2018
Feature

5 Strange Stories That Depict the Reality of War

By Will Mackin  March 21, 2018
Advice

Great Advice From 25 Writing Manuals by Famous Authors

By Emily Temple  January 22, 2018
What to Read

The Most Anthologized Essays of the Last 25 Years

By Emily Temple  July 31, 2017
What to Read

12 Writers on the Books They’re Giving as Gifts This Year

By Lorraine Berry  December 19, 2016
Feature

Tuesday in Cleveland, Republicans Sing “Shake It Off”

By Timothy Denevi  July 20, 2016
Politics

On the Road to Cleveland: Trump Speaks to the Werewolf in Us

By Timothy Denevi  July 19, 2016
Feature

The Writer’s Curse, The Writer’s Blessing

By Rachel Louise Snyder  June 22, 2016
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