• Craft and Advice

    Crime

    Alia Trabucco Zerán on Writing About Women Who Kill

    By Alia Trabucco Zerán  November 9, 2022
    Keen On

    Why “Writing” Has Nothing to Do With Being a “Writer”

    By Keen On  November 9, 2022
    literary criticism

    A Strange and Uncomfortable Coupling: My Summer of Susan Faludi and Karl Ove Knausgaard

    By Lynn Steger Strong  November 8, 2022
    Children's Literature

    On Harold of the Purple Crayon and the Value of an Imaginative Journey

    By Ross Ellenhorn  November 8, 2022
    In Conversation

    “Blown Apart by Love and Grief.” Catherine Newman in Conversation with Debra Jo Immergut

    By Debra Jo Immergut  November 8, 2022
    Twitterverse

    Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah on Writing Rap Music About Nabokov

    By Twitterverse   November 8, 2022
    Micro

    Ada Calhoun on the Satisfaction of Being a Ghostwriter “Fixer”

    By Micro   November 8, 2022
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

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

    By Teddy Wayne  November 8, 2022
    I'm a Writer But

    Christina Cooke on Writing the Book She Was Looking For

    By I'm a Writer But   November 8, 2022
    Parenting

    The Art of Reading While Feeding (a Newborn)

    By Alice Bloch  November 7, 2022
    When I’m Not Writing

    “I Fight to Learn What it Means to Feel Calm.” Laura van den Berg on Boxing, Vulnerability, and Process

    By Laura van den Berg  November 7, 2022
    Revision

    Accidental Craft: On Discovering the Right Way (For Me) to Revise

    By Sorayya Khan  November 7, 2022
    First Draft

    Tracy K. Smith on Pursuing a Reconfiguration of the American Imagination

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   November 7, 2022
    Write-minded

    Steve Almond on the Writer’s Ego

    By Write-minded   November 7, 2022
    Keen On

    Want to Self-Publish Successfully? Write Fast, Leverage All Your Social Media Networks, and Prioritize Memorable Cover Art

    By Keen On  November 7, 2022
    Libraries

    A Good Research Librarian Can Help You Find Information You Didn’t Even Know You Needed

    By Sarah Shoemaker  November 4, 2022
    The Writing Life

    The Best American Novelist to Disappear (And Come Back) Twice

    By Helene Atwan  November 4, 2022
    Writing

    Serena Burdick on Her Novel’s Seventeen-Year Journey to Publication

    By Serena Burdick  November 4, 2022
    The Literary Life

    Dani Shapiro on the Fifteen Year Journey of Signal Fires

    By The Literary Life  November 4, 2022
    New Books Network

    Alastair Reynolds on Trying to Encompass the Entire History of Science Fiction in One Novel

    By New Books Network  November 4, 2022
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    The Author of Election on the Election: Tom Perrotta Talks Tracy Flick’s Return and the Midterms

    By Fiction Non Fiction  November 3, 2022
    The Maris Review

    Nick Drnaso: Can You Write Good Characters That Don’t Share Your Worldview?

    By The Maris Review  November 3, 2022
    Micro

    Megan Abbott on Writing for the Reader

    By Micro   November 3, 2022
    On Race

    Confronting the South’s Tradition of Racist Terror

    By Ousmane Power-Green  November 3, 2022
    Book Dreams

    Azar Nafisi on How Both Writers and Tyrants Recreate Reality

    By Book Dreams  November 3, 2022
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