• Craft and Advice

    Author Photos

    On Learning to Take Author Photos Remotely During the Pandemic

    By Beowulf Sheehan  August 18, 2021
    Thresholds

    Deesha Philyaw on Leaving a Marriage While Writing a Short Story Collection

    By Thresholds   August 18, 2021
    Inspiration

    My Shadow Book: On Consciously—or Unconsciously—Immortalizing Ex-Partners in Literary Fiction

    By Andrew Palmer  August 17, 2021
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Tod Goldberg on Being Ruled By Your Own Game

    By The Virtual Book Channel  August 17, 2021
    Fan Culture

    Fascist Fandom and Raging Incels: Tracing the Baffling Nerd-to-White-Nationalist Pipeline

    By A.E. Osworth  August 16, 2021
    America

    The Cognitive Dissonance of America: Writing Through the Terror of Trumpland

    By Brian Castleberry  August 16, 2021
    Genealogy

    How I Tracked Down the Hidden Lives of the Radical, Wealthy Morris Sisters

    By Julie Klam  August 16, 2021
    Police

    Fictionalizing a Dark Chapter in the History of Milwaukee Policing

    By Willa C. Richards  August 13, 2021
    Writing Life

    The Loneliness of the Full-Time Writer

    By Mike Gayle  August 13, 2021
    The Craft of Writing

    Maurice Carlos Ruffin on Understanding Voice in Fiction

    By Maurice Carlos Ruffin  August 13, 2021
    The Common

    Emma Sloley on Exploring Fear and Violence in Intimate Relationships

    By The Common  August 13, 2021
    The Hub

    “I’ll take my characters to bed.” Walter Dean Myers on his writing process and routines.

    By Vanessa Willoughby  August 12, 2021
    Immigration

    Aching for the American Dream: On Writing the Delicate Stories of Immigrant and Refugee Students

    By Elly Fishman  August 12, 2021
    #MeToo

    The Power and Perils of Storytelling: How We Make Narratives Out of Predatory Relationships

    By Jane Healey  August 12, 2021
    Book Research

    So You Want to Write a Novel About a Legendary Corn Geneticist…

    By Rachel Pastan  August 12, 2021
    Book Dreams

    Jo Ann Beard on the “Rigorous Refusal” to Waste a Reader’s Time

    By Book Dreams  August 12, 2021
    Interview

    Sabina Murray on the Limits of Journalism and the Wondrous Possibilities of Fiction

    By Jane Ciabattari  August 10, 2021
    The Writing Life

    The Painful Cost of the Writing Life

    By James Tate Hill  August 9, 2021
    The Hub

    After Lord Byron: poetic advice for the modern poet (in couplets).

    By Jason Guriel  August 6, 2021
    The Craft of Writing

    Larissa Pham on Allowing Memory to Shape a Memoir

    By Larissa Pham  August 6, 2021
    The Maris Review

    Kelsey McKinney on Megachurches, Girlhood, and Staying Faithful to Her Book

    By The Maris Review  August 5, 2021
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Mona Awad: Time, Faith, and Momentum Are the Keys to Sparking—and Sustaining—Creativity

    By Literary Hub  August 5, 2021
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Katie Kitamura in Conversation with Raven Leilani

    By The Virtual Book Channel  August 5, 2021
    Thresholds

    How Nadia Owusu Discovered the Story She Needed To Tell

    By Thresholds   August 4, 2021
    Audiobooks

    My Life Story, Someone Else’s Voice: Why I Won’t Be Narrating My Memoir’s Audiobook

    By James Tate Hill  August 3, 2021
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