• Craft and Criticism

    Drafts

    Finding Inspiration (and Joy) While Drafting Among the Fjords

    David Greig on His Creative Process Aboard a Nordic Cruise

     
    By David Greig  September 15, 2025
    The Body

    Pain as Progress: On Bodybuilding, Poetry and Transformation

    By Isabella DeSendi  September 15, 2025
    Write-minded

    Roxane Gay on Memoir as Manifesto

    By Memoir Nation   September 15, 2025
    First Draft

    Nini Berendt and Evanthia Bromiley on Debut Discovery

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   September 15, 2025
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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

    By Book Marks  September 12, 2025
    The Lit Hub Podcast

    Travel Writing, Well-Designed Classics, and Setting to Sea on the Lit Hub Podcast

    By The Lit Hub Podcast   September 12, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Women Writers

    Writer, Resistance Fighter, and Kafka’s First Translator: Milena Jesenská, Forgotten No More

    By Christine Estima  September 12, 2025
    The Craft of Writing

    In Praise of Writing in Cemeteries

    By Darcie Dennigan  September 12, 2025
    Books

    The Joy of Reading Books About Books

    By Susan Coll  September 12, 2025
    Women Writers

    The Art of Caustic Cosiness: On Barbara Pym’s The Sweet Dove Died

    “It pitches new freedoms against dying rules and routines, with a keen eye for the debris, as its worlds of beauty and cruelty collide.”

    By Susie Boyt  September 15, 2025
    On Poetry

    Natalie Diaz: Seeing is Feeling in Mary Oliver’s Poetry

    By Natalie Diaz  September 11, 2025
    On Poetry

    How Adam Zagajewski “Accidentally“ Wrote the Definitive 9/11 Poem

    By Elaine L. Wang  September 11, 2025
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  September 11, 2025
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Jessica Francis Kane on Penelope Fitzgerald in Mexico

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

    By Fiction Non Fiction  September 11, 2025
    Book Clubs

    Why Everyone—Yes, Everyone—Should Join a Book Club

    By Linda-Marie Barrett  September 10, 2025
    literary criticism

    On the Conservatism of Contemporary Literary Fiction

    By Nathaniel Moore  September 10, 2025
    Jane Austen

    What Money Really Means in Jane Austen’s Work

    By John Mullan  September 10, 2025
    Writing

    Spells, Skepticism, and Surrender: What Happens When the Agent Becomes the Author

    Samantha Browning Shea on Breaking Her Own Rules

    By Samantha Browning Shea  September 10, 2025
    Historical Fiction

    Connecting the Dots: On Creating Fiction from Facts

    By Beth Kephart  September 10, 2025
    Windham-Campbell Prizes

    Anne Enright on J.G. Farrell’s Troubles

    By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast   September 10, 2025
    Rereadings

    Rachel Kushner on the 10th Anniversary of Kim Gordon’s Girl in a Band

    By Rachel Kushner  September 9, 2025
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

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

    Featuring Jade Chang, Adam Nicolson, E. Y. Zhao and More

    By Teddy Wayne  September 9, 2025
    Craft

    The Case for Polyamory: Alejandro Varela on Writing a Novel That Questions Everything

    By Alejandro Varela  September 9, 2025
    Reading Lists

    Taking Center Stage: Eight Novels That Celebrate Black Performance

    By Lauren Morrow  September 9, 2025
    Rejection

    Sally Mann on the Crushing, Lifelong Reality of Artistic Rejection

    By Sally Mann  September 11, 2025
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