Advice for Writers

This blog provides advice to writers on their literary work. See the end of this post for links on these topics: How can you get the full benefit of workshops? How can you work best with your mentor? What, when, and how should you publish?

Thursday, July 2, 2026

The New American Crisis

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In the winter of 1776, Tom Paine wrote a pamphlet called The American Crisis to rally the citizens of the United States at a turning point...

Monday, June 22, 2026

The Second Generation of New York School Poets

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The New York School of Poetry leaped into the North American literary scene in the 1950s and early 1960s. Some of the leading writers of tha...

Friday, May 15, 2026

Interview with Novelist Lynne Kaufman on The Oxford Affair

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Your novel The Oxford Affair flirts with different genres: mystery, romance, comedy. Do you think of the book as falling into a genre? Is i...

Friday, April 17, 2026

Thomas Mann’s Doctor Faustus

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Thomas Mann wrote his doorstopper novel Doctor Faustus late in life, long after his more widely read works of fiction, including Buddenbro...

Sunday, February 22, 2026

A Tribute to Dorothy Bryant

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Dorothy Bryant (1930–2017) was a brilliant writer whose work deserves much more attention. She excelled both as a novelist and a playwright...

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Zack Rogow: Zack Rogow is an award-winning author, editor, or translator of more than twenty books or plays. Zack’s memoir about his dad, the writer Lee Rogow, Hugging My Father’s Ghost, was published by Spuyten Duyvil. He is available for creative writing manuscript critiques. You can contact him at zrogow at berkeley dot edu. His other recent books include Irreverent Litanies, Talking with the Radio, and The Number Before Infinity. You can watch a brief documentary on his writing or watch him read on YouTube. He's the editor of an anthology of U.S. poetry, The Face of Poetry, published by University of California Press. The entries in this blog are Copyright © 2011 to 2026 by Zack Rogow.

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