This Month

This month, Boldtype rounds up books that zero in on the act of writing. Haruki Murakami offers a tough-love take on running marathons and writing novels, and comics artist Lynda Barry jump-starts the creative process with an eye-popping guide to writing that's part collage and part memoir. For those who'd rather just read about writing, Joyce Carol Oates serves up fantasies about the last days of authors like Dickinson and Hemingway. And, finally, our profile of Salvadoran novelist Horacio Castellanos Moya spotlights an exciting and controversial writer who's set to break through in English.