Literary Hub
Literary Hub
  • Craft and Criticism
    • Literary Criticism
    • Craft and Advice
    • In Conversation
    • On Translation
  • Fiction and Poetry
    • Short Story
    • From the Novel
    • Poem
  • News and Culture
    • History
    • Science
    • Politics
    • Biography
    • Memoir
    • Food
    • Technology
    • Bookstores and Libraries
    • Film and TV
    • Travel
    • Music
    • Art and Photography
    • The Hub
    • Style
    • Design
    • Sports
  • BUY A HAT
  • Lit Hub Radio
    • The Lit Hub Podcast
    • Awakeners
    • Fiction/Non/Fiction
    • The Critic and Her Publics
    • Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast
    • Memoir Nation
    • Beyond the Page
    • First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing
    • Thresholds
    • The Cosmic Library
    • Culture Schlock
  • Reading Lists
    • The Best of the Decade
  • Book Marks
    • Best Reviewed Books
  • CrimeReads
    • True Crime
    • The Daily Thrill
  • Log In
  • Craft and Criticism
  • Fiction and Poetry
  • News and Culture
  • Lit Hub Radio
  • Reading Lists
  • Book Marks
  • CrimeReads
What Completism Can Teach Us About the Creative Process

What Completism Can Teach Us About the Creative Process

Rhian Sasseen Considers the Lost Art of Prolonged Artistic Growth

By Rhian Sasseen | July 24, 2023

How Airports Liberate—and Constrain—Those Who Pass Through Them

How Airports Liberate—and Constrain—Those Who Pass Through Them

“In the airport, we are all divorced from whoever we were previously.”

By Rhian Sasseen | December 20, 2022

Reading the Literature of the Bicycle As I Learned<br> to Ride One

Reading the Literature of the Bicycle As I Learned
to Ride One

Rhian Sasseen Explores the Connection Between Person and Machine

By Rhian Sasseen | January 27, 2021

Does Every Country Need to Have Its Own Sylvia Plath?

Does Every Country Need to Have Its Own Sylvia Plath?

Rhian Sasseen on the Inescapability of Plath for Female Writers

By Rhian Sasseen | August 17, 2020

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • House of Day, House of Night
  • The Award
  • Daring to Be Free: Rebellion and Resistance of the Enslaved in the Atlantic World
  • Casanova 20: Or, Hot World
  • Frostlines: A Journey Through Entangled Lives and Landscapes in a Warming Arctic
  • The Six Loves of James I
    • The Best Psychological Thrillers of 2025December 10, 2025 by Molly Odintz
    • Period Perfection: 8 Historical Mystery Novels That Transport ReadersDecember 10, 2025 by Julie Mulhern
    • Nick Croydon on Alan Turing, Bletchley Park, and the Importance of Research in Crafting ThrillersDecember 10, 2025 by Nick Croydon
    • House of Day, House of Night
    • The Best Reviewed Books of the Week
    • "Tokarczuk is an excellent storyteller She is very good at creating a 'sense of anticipation…"
  • Literary Hub

    Created by Grove Atlantic and Electric Literature


    Masthead

    About

    Sign Up For Our Newsletters

    How to Pitch Lit Hub

    Advertisers: Contact Us

    Privacy Policy

    Support Lit Hub - Become A Member