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“Each pencil feels like perhaps it is okay to linger, to listen, to get a line wrong—and try again,” writes Aimee Nezhukumatathil, author of Night Owl (@eccobooks.bsky.social). Read more: at.pw.org/WRNezhukumatathil2
Fourth time’s a charm for a handful of our latest #PageOne titles, which include the fourth books of Joseph Osmundson (Spawning Season), Sophie Mackintosh (Permanence), and Soham Patel (The Daughter Industry). Savor their opening lines: at.pw.org/PageOne2026x3
#ClipOfTheDay: In this 2012 PBS NewsHour interview, the late Iranian French author Marjane Satrapi spoke about her autobiographical graphic novels and films Persepolis and Chicken With Plums, and why she felt comics were the best form for her writing. at.pw.org/Satrapi
“Must I move through an apparatus of pain if I want to make myself known through language, if I want to receive even a modicum of understanding in this life?” Minda Honey considers why writing can be so emotionally taxing—and what the rewards are when we persist nonetheless. at.pw.org/TorturedArtist
“You don’t have to be a funny person with a backlog of jokes at the ready.” In this week’s #CraftCapsule, Julie Schumacher encourages writers to experiment with perspective to find humor. at.pw.org/SchumacherCC1
