Blake Butler on (Not) Finding Your Voice

Blake Butler on (Not) Finding Your Voice

“Your only job is to find a way to secure enough time to keep throwing yourself into the void.”

By Blake Butler | December 22, 2023

Colm Tóibín! Geraldine Brooks! A guide to killing time! 19 books out in paperback this January.

Colm Tóibín! Geraldine Brooks! A guide to killing time! 19 books out in paperback this January.

By Gabrielle Bellot | December 22, 2023

The Annotated Nightstand: What Sabrina Orah Mark Is Reading Now and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Sabrina Orah Mark Is Reading Now and Next

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By Diana Arterian | December 21, 2023

Lydia Kiesling on Making the Lists—or Not

Lydia Kiesling on Making the Lists—or Not

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | December 21, 2023

Tyriek White on Juxtaposing Brooklyn's History With Lived Experience

Tyriek White on Juxtaposing Brooklyn's History With Lived Experience

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | December 21, 2023

The Complicated Experience of Reading a Late Friend’s Novel

The Complicated Experience of Reading a Late Friend’s Novel

“I learned later that he had left a piece of paper with four stark words on it: ’Suicide notes are tacky.‘”

By Matthew Hays | December 20, 2023

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Andrew Pettegree on Books and War

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Louise Kennedy on Discovering Fiction’s Complex Emotional Truths

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The 10 Most Popular Lit Hub Stories of the Year

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“I’m Not Really Interested in Creating Sympathetic Characters.” Rachel Connolly Talks to Lucie Elven

“I’m Not Really Interested in Creating Sympathetic Characters.” Rachel Connolly Talks to Lucie Elven

The Author of Lazy City on Creative Intentionality and Subverting the Trauma Plot

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Sakiru Adebayo on the Diasporization of African Literature

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The Biggest Literary Stories of the Year: 50 to 31

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From Anne Carson Going Viral to the End of the Manuscript Thief Saga

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Tracy K. Smith on Liberty

Tracy K. Smith on Liberty

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By Fiction Non Fiction | December 14, 2023

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