• Craft and Advice

    So Many Damn Books

    Idra Novey: How to Pack a Punch in a Short Novel

    By So Many Damn Books  March 21, 2023
    Celebrity

    Elissa Sloan and Jennifer Banash on Celebrity, Myth, and Fiction

    By Literary Hub  March 21, 2023
    Write-minded

    Peggy Orenstein on the Self-improvement Memoir

    By Write-minded   March 21, 2023
    Keen On

    Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai on Why Female Novelists Should Plunder the Voices of Men in Their Work

    By Keen On  March 21, 2023
    On Grief

    God Bless the Grievers: Zoe Fishman on Reclaiming Widowhood Narratives

    By Zoe Fishman  March 20, 2023
    First Draft

    “Gray Area is What Novels Can Do That Twitter Cannot.” Rebecca Makkai on Incorporating #MeToo in Her New Novel

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   March 20, 2023
    The Craft of Writing

    Idra Novey on the Conjuring of Haunting Characters

    By Idra Novey  March 17, 2023
    Friendship

    Poetry in Three Dimensions: Sarah Ruhl on Bringing the Words of Max Ritvo to the Theater

    By Sarah Ruhl  March 16, 2023
    Historical Fiction

    Jennifer Rosner on Crafting Evocative Historical Fiction That Honors the Past

    By Natalie Jenner and Jennifer Rosner  March 16, 2023
    The Maris Review

    Editor-Turned-Author Jenny Jackson on the Other Side of the Editorial Process

    By The Maris Review  March 16, 2023
    Otherppl

    Gina Frangello on the Editorial Omniscient and Why We Should All Be Using it

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  March 16, 2023
    The Writing Life

    Ann Napolitano: Offer Yourself Grace When the Writing is Hard

    By Ann Napolitano  March 15, 2023
    Autofiction

    Appropriating Their Way Into Existence: How Black Writers Upended Autofiction

    By DK Nnuro  March 15, 2023
    Thresholds

    Sarah Thankam Mathews on Her Brush with Mortality and the “Sourdough Starter of Ego Death”

    By Thresholds   March 15, 2023
    Interview with a Poet

    Kathy Fagan on the Poetic Power of “Misusing” Language

    By Peter Mishler  March 15, 2023
    Family Stories

    What Lies Beneath: The Deep Geology of Prose

    By Elizabeth McKenzie  March 14, 2023
    Essay

    How To Find a Charming Narrator in a Self-Conscious Age

    By Cathleen Schine  March 14, 2023
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

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

    By Teddy Wayne  March 14, 2023
    I'm a Writer But

    “The Unknown Became the Central Part.” Matthew Vollmer on His New Memoir

    By I'm a Writer But   March 14, 2023
    Otherppl

    “I’m in Communion with Emily Dickinson.” Jennifer Michael Hecht on How to Navigate Our World Through Poetry

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  March 14, 2023
    Advice

    “Everything is Riding on Your Author Photo.” Mary Childs on What to Expect When You’re Expecting a Book

    By Mary Childs  March 13, 2023
    Writing

    Talking to Joyce Carol Oates on the Way to the Airport About Fiction’s Blurry Borders

    By Jesse Lee Kercheval  March 13, 2023
    Family Stories

    Our Family Secret Was Embedded in My Writing Before I Knew the Truth

    By Dani Shapiro  March 13, 2023
    Write-minded

    Gish Jen on Mining Tension in Fiction

    By Write-minded   March 13, 2023
    First Draft

    Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult: Michelle Dowd Revisits Her Childhood in Forager

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   March 13, 2023
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