• Craft and Advice

    Poetry

    “To Become a Poet is to Step Into the Void.” Brian Henry on Slovenian Poet Tomaž Šalamun

    By Literary Hub  May 22, 2024
    craft advice

    On the Joys of Following Literary Instinct Wherever It Leads

    By Leah Hager Cohen  May 22, 2024
    Family History

    Snapshots of Life: Storytelling and Outlaw Culture in Eastern Kentucky

    By Bobi Conn  May 22, 2024
    Unlikeable Female Characters

    Drifters, Searchers and Observers: In Praise of Quietly Unlikable Women

    By Mesha Maren  May 21, 2024
    African American Literature

    “Splintered beyond recognition.” Yogita Goyal on the Difficulty of Categorizing Contemporary African American Literature

    By Yogita Goyal  May 21, 2024
    In Conversation

    R.O. Kwon on Writing Her Way Into a Book’s Most Truthful Version

    By Jane Ciabattari  May 21, 2024
    First Draft

    Adelle Waldman on the Lightly Comic

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   May 20, 2024
    Naming

    The Poetry of Chinese Names

    By Wendy Chen  May 20, 2024
    Film

    Pulitzer Prize-Winner Ilyon Woo on Craft Lessons From the Late Filmmaker Dai Sil Kim Gibson

    By Ilyon Woo  May 20, 2024
    craft advice

    The Thrill of Discovery: How Hidden Messages Make Fiction Fun

    By J. Nicole Jones  May 20, 2024
    Write-minded

    Susan Kiyo Ito on the Raw Truth of Exposure

    By Write-minded   May 20, 2024
    The Writing Life

    Better in the Middle: Eight Writing Hacks From a Mid-List Author

    By Anna Dorn  May 17, 2024
    The Craft of Writing

    Anna Noyes on Writing the Book That Keeps Her Awake

    By Anna Noyes  May 17, 2024
    Am I the Literary Asshole?

    I Want to Put a Dozen Blurbs on My Book: Am I the Literary Asshole?

    By Kristen Arnett  May 16, 2024
    Small Town Stories

    We’re Not in Winesburg Anymore: On the Literature of the Small Town

    By Carolyn Kuebler  May 16, 2024
    On Translation

    The Secret Master: On Translating the Forgotten Argentine Writer Ángel Bonomini

    By Jordan Landsman  May 16, 2024
    The History of Literature

    Adelle Waldman on Muckraking Novels

    By History of Literature  May 16, 2024
    The Critic and Her Publics

    Lauren Michele Jackson on the Collision of the Internet, Race, and Gender

    By The Critic and Her Publics   May 14, 2024
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

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

    By Teddy Wayne  May 14, 2024
    Death

    Who Will Finish Your Manuscript When You Die?

    By Tessa Fontaine  May 14, 2024
    Historical Fiction

    Claire Messud on Writing the Past That Lives Within Us

    By Jane Ciabattari  May 14, 2024
    The Craft of Writing

    Saying the Unsayable, and Listening to Silence: Jon Fosse on How Writing Plays Transformed His Craft

    By Jon Fosse  May 13, 2024
    Coming out

    Continual Self-Revision: Bee Sacks on Coming Out As a Nonbinary Author

    By Bee Sacks  May 13, 2024
    Write-minded

    Jennifer Leigh Selig on Deep Memoir

    By Write-minded   May 13, 2024
    First Draft

    Sunjeev Sahota on Novels as Detective Stories

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   May 13, 2024
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