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cafes Tokyo's new Manuscript Writing Cafe demands customers make progress toward their writerly goals David Pescovitz

writing workshop Help this "Ghost Class" of speculative fiction writers get to the Clarion Writer's Workshop Thom Dunn

commencement speeches Read Joan Didion's entire "lost" university commencement address from 1975 David Pescovitz

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writers Joan Didion, author and pioneering "New Journalist," RIP David Pescovitz

Spells and curses The letter that William Burroughs wrote Truman Capote, cursing his career and taking back his talent Gareth Branwyn

alpha Help the Alpha Young Writers Workshop for its 20th anniversary Thom Dunn

poets bell hooks, pioneering feminist poet and activist, RIP David Pescovitz

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Read Robert Louis Stevenson's handwritten manuscript for "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" Gareth Branwyn

rod serling Rod Serling talks to college students about the craft of writing Gareth Branwyn

recluses Strange TV interview with Samuel Beckett in which he says absolutely nothing David Pescovitz

literary Award for Bad Sex in Fiction cancelled due to enough bad things in 2020 David Pescovitz

magick Comics legend Grant Morrison on "The Invisibles" for TV, Wonder Woman, Robert Anton Wilson, and magick David Pescovitz

writers Steve Steinberg, hacker, writer, friend (1970-2020) David Pescovitz

songwriting Nick Cave: writer's block is actually a "category error" David Pescovitz

beat generation Beat poet Michael McClure, RIP David Pescovitz

fauci The sexy medical researcher in this bestselling 1991 romance novel was based on Anthony Fauci David Pescovitz

maureen herman Podcast interview Maureen Herman, former bassist of Babes in Toyland Mark Frauenfelder

ray bradbury Ray Bradbury's captivating explanation of his Mr. Electrico character's uncanny origins David Pescovitz