Craft Capsules

In our weekly series of craft essays, some of the best and brightest minds in contemporary literature explore their craft in compact form, articulating their thoughts about creative obsessions and curiosities in a working notebook of lessons about the art of writing.

Craft Capsule: Researching IRL

by
Emma Copley Eisenberg
3.2.20
Emma Copley Eisenberg

“You ask the right person the right question at the right time, and they’ll tell you something that has never before been told in the history of the world.” Emma Copley Eisenberg celebrates the magic of reporting as a research tool. 

Craft Capsule: The End

by
Cameron Awkward-Rich
12.30.19
Hermit crab

How do you know when to stop revising? Cameron Awkward-Rich shares a memorization exercise that helps him recognize when a poem is done. 

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