• Craft and Advice

    Writers in Conversation

    Rae Meadows on Immersing Herself in the World of Soviet Gymnastics

    By Jane Ciabattari  December 20, 2022
    Medicine

    Martin Dyar on the Intersections of Poetry and Medicine

    By Martin Dyar  December 20, 2022
    In Conversation

    Peter Orner and Emma Cline Discuss Endings, Memory, and Writing Against Classification

    By Emma Cline  December 19, 2022
    First Draft

    Namwali Serpell on the “Uncanny Rhythm” of Poetry and Grief

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   December 19, 2022
    Write-minded

    Dave Chesson on Having Fun with Book Marketing

    By Write-minded   December 19, 2022
    The Writing Life

    What Makes Writing Valuable?

    By William Pierce  December 16, 2022
    The Craft of Writing

    Jess Walter on the Highsmithian Principles of Suspense

    By Jess Walter  December 16, 2022
    Writing Advice

    Silencing the Technology Beast: Priyanka Kumar on Sinking Into Time While Writing

    By Priyanka Kumar  December 16, 2022
    Life Advice for Book Lovers

    Life Advice for Book Lovers: For a Dose of Optimism, Read This.

    By Dorothea   December 15, 2022
    The Writing Life

    How Do You Know If Your Short Story Should Be a Novel?

    By Bill Cotter  December 15, 2022
    Authors in the Tent

    Dora Diamant, the Amazing Woman Who Captured Kafka’s Heart

    By The Virtual Book Channel  December 15, 2022
    Otherppl

    “I Don’t Want to Be That Kind of Writer…” Sam Lipsyte on Eliminating the Desire to Imitate Other Writers

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  December 14, 2022
    The Writing Life

    Moriel Rothman-Zecher on the Magic of Writing at Sunrise

    By Moriel Rothman-Zecher  December 14, 2022
    Travel

    Jan Morris Talks Travel, Dictionaries, and Other People’s Diaries

    By Paul Clements  December 13, 2022
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

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

    By Teddy Wayne  December 13, 2022
    So Many Damn Books

    Alison Watts: The Life of a Translator and Reading for Fun When Your Job is in the Literary World

    By So Many Damn Books  December 13, 2022
    When I’m Not Writing

    Pitchaya Sudbanthad on the Pleasures of Restoring Fountain Pens, and Finding Respite from Writerly Abstraction

    By Pitchaya Sudbanthad  December 12, 2022
    On Poetry

    Robin Coste Lewis on Giving the Reader a Poetic Experience

    By Literary Hub  December 12, 2022
    Book Tours

    When Your Book Tour is Interrupted by a Near-Death Experience

    By M Dressler  December 12, 2022
    First Draft

    Elizabeth Strout: How Her Imagination as a Child Has Steered Her Writing Career

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   December 12, 2022
    The Craft of Writing

    Sam Lipsyte on the What and the How of Writing

    By Sam Lipsyte  December 9, 2022
    Russian Literature

    How Chekhov Made Sense of His Surroundings Through Writing Short Stories

    By Bob Blaisdell  December 9, 2022
    Keen On

    What Happens When a Novelist “Overparents” Their Characters? How to Avoid Helicopter Authoring

    By Keen On  December 9, 2022
    Best of 2022

    Our Favorite Lit Hub Stories From 2022

    By Literary Hub  December 8, 2022
    African Literature

    #ReadingAfrica: Five Writers and Publishers Discuss the Continent’s Boundless Literary Landscape

    By Literary Hub  December 8, 2022
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