Writing

Bernardine Evaristo's Girl, Woman, Other, which recently won the Booker Prize, is out now from Grove Atlantic. We asked her about writers' block, her favorite books, and more.

A mini-scandal lit up Twitter last month when the Cut featured a tell-all essay by 27-year-old writer Natalie Beach. In the piece, Beach exposes her seven-year relationship with her friend Caroline Calloway, who scored an agent and a reputed $375,000 book deal for her memoir.  Read more

In a video that began making the rounds last month, Meg Stalter describes herself as a writer in New York City ("can you get any more cliché than that, no you can't" she said), and gives some writerly advice.  Read more

Oh, the heyday of publishing - big desks, lots of cash, martini-soused three-hour lunches, trying to appease your government. That was the world in which TS Eliot, then a director of Faber and FaberClick for Faber and Faber Publishers References listing, was living in 1944, when he rejected George Orwell's Animal Farm for its criticism of Stalin, who was then Britain's wartime ally.  Read more

Sometimes a story demands more than just a plot to move its emotional content forward. When a story becomes very complicated, or a little too crowded with characters, or stretched over a long period of time, you may want to create a context. Context is the descriptive background in a story that sheds light on its meaning.  Read more