Light the dark / Aimee Bender --
Leaving the reservation of the mind / Sherman Alexie --
In praise of stubborn gladness / Elizabeth Gilbert --
You've been here before / Stephen King --
Pixel by pixel / Amy Tan --
A friend of the mind / Junot Díaz --
The handshake / William Gibson --
Everything I meant to say / Khaled Hosseini --
Do not think, dream / Andre Dubus III --
I don't know you anymore / Mary Gaitskill --
To infinity and beyond / Michael Chabon --
How I awoke / Walter Mosley --
Stealing plums and counting stones / Jim Crace --
All immigrants are artists / Edwidge Danticat --
Into the deep heart's core / Billy Collins --
Please stop thinking / Kathryn Harrison --
Neglect everything else / David Mitchell --
Dreaming in drag / Roxane Gay --
Ordinary people / Tom Perrotta --
Against unreality / Ayana Mathis --
No one ever changes / Jim Shepard --
Lose yourself / Karl Ove Knausgaard --
On commonness / Leslie Jamison --
Letting the leopards in / Jonathan Lethem --
The edge of sense / Jesse Ball --
A place to call my own / Angela Flournoy --
Into the wardrobe, into the self / Lev Grossman --
Strangers on a train / Yiyun Li --
Time passes / Maggie Shipstead --
Translating the subconscious / Jeff Tweedy --
The long game / Nell Zink --
Lifting the blanket / Charles Simic --
Follow this voice / Viet Thanh Nguyen --
You and me / Emma Donoghue --
Words on paper will outlast us / Claire Messud --
Nobody asked you to write that novel / Jane Smiley --
My favorite curmudgeon / Jonathan Franzen --
Writing for right now / Hanya Yanagihara --
Recommended dosage / Ben Marcus --
Music for misfits / Mark Haddon --
Enough about me / Azar Nafisi --
How stories say goodbye / T.C. Boyle --
Rehearsals for death / Ethan Canin --
Happy accidents / Eileen Myles --
the brain is larger than the sea / Marilynne Robinson --
Random joy / Neil Gaiman.