• Craft and Criticism

    Unlikeable Female Characters

    If I Was a Rich Girl, I’d Have All the Cover in the World: The Real Mean Girls of Classic Literature

    Sanibel on Social Class, Undine Spragg, Becky Sharp, and Who Society Punishes in Art and Life

     
    By Sanibel   April 15, 2025
    Journalism

    From Fact-Checking to Fiction: On the Multifaceted and Often Fruitless Pursuit of Truth

    By Austin Kelley  April 15, 2025
    The Craft of Writing

    What Working on Films Taught Me About Writing Fiction

    By Heather McGowan  April 15, 2025
    Folk Music

    The Timeless, Timely Folk Novel: On Writing Fiction Influenced by Folk Songs

    By Seán Hewitt  April 15, 2025
    New Books Tuesdays

    Virginia Woolf! Ishion Hutchinson! R. Crumb! 24 new books out today.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  April 15, 2025
    Poets

    An Incomplete Biography of Jane Hirshfield in Six Jobs (with Poems)

    By Heather Swan  April 14, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Romance Novels

    Genre Alert: Women Who Are Sexually Attracted to Airplanes… And Other Non-Sentient Objects

    By Celia Mattison  April 14, 2025
    The Lives of Women

    Coming Undone: Telling the Stories of Women Who Burn It All Down

    By Claire Hoffman  April 14, 2025
    African American Literature

    The Incendiary Feeling of Freedom: On Phillis Wheatley Peters and the Poetry of Survival

    By Tiana Clark  April 14, 2025
    Art and Life

    The Body Made Metaphoric: Heather Christle on Losing a Rib and Writing a Memoir

    The Author of "In the Rhododendrons" Reflects on Illness, Virginia Woolf, and a Fairytale Deal

    By Heather Christle  April 15, 2025
    Write-minded

    Betsy Lerner on Writing What You Know

    By Write-minded   April 14, 2025
    The Lit Hub Podcast

    New on the Lit Hub Podcast: Traci Thomas of The Stacks, Jonny Diamond on Lit Hub’s 10th Birthday, and More Poetry!

    By The Lit Hub Podcast   April 11, 2025
    American Empire

    Viet Thanh Nguyen: Most American Literature is the Literature of Empire

    By Viet Thanh Nguyen  April 11, 2025
    The Craft of Writing

    Natalia Theodoridou on Unraveling a Short Story into a Novel

    “It gave me permission to indulge myself and my characters.”

    By Natalia Theodoridou  April 11, 2025
    The Open Road

    How to Write a Novel While Driving on the Sam Houston Tollway

    By Andy Anderegg  April 11, 2025
    On Translation

    The Second Life: On Translating Literature Into Farsi and Life into English

    By Moeen Farrokhi  April 11, 2025
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    By Book Marks  April 11, 2025
    Writing the Book

    Following the “Mom Rule.” On Writing Sci-Fi My Mother Could Get Behind

    Daryl Gregory Remembers the Reader Who Transformed His Storytelling

    By Daryl Gregory  April 11, 2025
    Beyond the Page

    Judy Blume on Radical Honesty

    By Sun Valley Writers' Conference  April 11, 2025
    Behind the Mic

    Maryrose Wood on the Relationship Between Author and Narrator

    By Behind the Mic   April 11, 2025
    Publishing

    What Does It Mean to Be a “Good Author” When You Publish a Book?

    By Maris Kreizman  April 10, 2025
    On The Self

    Viet Thanh Nguyen on Finding the Foreign in Ourselves and Those Most Like Us

    “That is the joy of otherness, an awareness that even seeing oneself face to face means that the very notion of otherness is present.”

    By Viet Thanh Nguyen  April 10, 2025
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  April 10, 2025
    Motherhood

    Babies, Wanted and Unwanted: Five Books That Explore Motherhood, Intention, and Desire

    By Uttama Kirit Patel  April 10, 2025
    First Draft

    Lynne Tillman on Taming Wild Thoughts

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   April 14, 2025
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