• Craft and Advice

    Dogs

    Can Dogs Make Us
    Better Writers?

    By Anna Bruno  August 18, 2020
    Religious Nationalism

    How Far Has America’s Christianized Dystopia Strayed From Christ?

    By Lori Lansens  August 18, 2020
    Trauma

    The Inherited Imagination

    By Sammi LaBue  August 18, 2020
    Memoir

    Finding Catharsis in the Story
    of a Family Betrayal

    By Darin Strauss  August 17, 2020
    Otherppl

    Stephen Graham Jones on How Horror is the Puppet of Your Own Terror

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  August 17, 2020
    First Draft

    Ursula Hegi on the Seam Between Bliss and Sorrow

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   August 17, 2020
    Essays

    Can the Essay Still Surprise Us?

    By Suzanne Conklin Akbari  August 14, 2020
    Mighty SONG Writers

    WATCH: Jewel on Battling Anxiety, Living with Dyslexia and Finding Solace in Philosophy

    By Literary Hub  August 12, 2020
    The Internet

    The Internet Has Split Our Sense of Self. Can the Page Reproduce That?

    By Rebecca Watson  August 12, 2020
    The Craft of Writing

    Charlotte Wood on the Subconscious Act of Writing

    By Charlotte Wood  August 11, 2020
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

    By Teddy Wayne  August 11, 2020
    On Craft

    The Quest for Kindness is One of Fiction’s Great Challenges

    By Rónán Hession  August 7, 2020
    Memoir

    My Father: The Genius, The Poet, Richard Eberhart

    By Gretchen Cherington  August 7, 2020
    Literary History

    Reading the First Drafts of
    Anna Karenina

    By Bob Blaisdell  August 6, 2020
    Mighty SONG Writers

    WATCH: Jazz Pianist Marcus Roberts Get the Blues and Talks Musical Influences

    By Literary Hub  August 5, 2020
    The Hub

    “Too much exercise!” Read Flaubert’s (very harsh) writing advice for Guy de Maupassant.

    By Emily Temple  August 3, 2020
    Nonfiction

    A Taxonomy of Nonfiction;
    Or the Pleasures of Precision

    By Karen Babine  August 3, 2020
    Publishing

    My Novel’s Heroine is Doing Better in the Publishing World Than I Did

    By Ellen Feldman  July 31, 2020
    Mighty SONG Writers

    WATCH: Amanda Shires with Jason Isbell on Writing Advice, Favorite Teachers (and a Song or Two)

    By Literary Hub  July 29, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    Is This the End of Writing in Cafés?

    By Emily Temple  July 28, 2020
    Publishing

    How to Write an Email Well Enough to Land a Book Deal

    By Anne Trubek  July 28, 2020
    The Writing Life

    To Live Alone in the Woods and Write

    By Melissa Faliveno  July 27, 2020
    5 Questions

    Byron Lane on Being Carrie Fisher’s Personal Assistant

    By Literary Hub  July 27, 2020
    Nazi Germany

    Learning to Decipher My Father’s Past in Nazi Germany

    By L. Annette Binder  July 24, 2020
    Craft

    How Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure Taught Me to Write

    By Lucie Britsch  July 23, 2020
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