• Craft and Criticism

    Motherhood

    Beyond Postpartum Body Horror: How Nightbitch Finds a Secret Third Destiny For New Mothers

    Janet Manley on Marielle Heller’s Adaptation of Rachel Yoder’s Novel

     
    By Janet Manley  December 6, 2024
    The Craft of Writing

    Pilgrimage: Beowulf Sheehan on Author Photos and the Search for Home

    By Beowulf Sheehan  December 6, 2024
    Gaza

    Susan Abulhawa Remembers Refaat Alareer: Poet, Teacher, Husband, Father

    By Susan Abulhawa  December 6, 2024
    Audiobooks

    The Best Audiobooks of 2024

    By AudioFile Magazine  December 6, 2024
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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

    By Book Marks  December 6, 2024
    Daily Fiction

    Woo Woo

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  December 6, 2024
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    The Hub

    Why can’t we be kind? (A Pollyanna’s case for the nice review.)

    By Brittany Allen  December 5, 2024
    Artificial Intelligence

    Steal This Website: Dear AI Robot-Thief, Please Scrape This Article

    By Calvin Kasulke  December 5, 2024
    Music Writing

    Listening To Africa: Three African Writers Discuss the History and Future of African Music

    By Literary Hub  December 5, 2024
    The Lit Hub Podcast

    This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast: AI Garbage and Audiobook Celebrations

    With Drew Broussard, Calvin Kasulke, Jonny Diamond, and James Folta

    By The Lit Hub Podcast   December 6, 2024
    Ghosts!

    Seeing Life Through the Eyes of the Dead: A Short Handbook for Writing Ghosts

    By Muriel Leung  December 5, 2024
    Daily Fiction

    Sand-Catcher

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  December 5, 2024
    Behind the Mic

    Julia Whelan and the Best Fiction Audiobooks of 2024

    By Behind the Mic   December 5, 2024
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Carvell Wallace on Love, Survival, and Endings

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

    By Fiction Non Fiction  December 5, 2024
    Book Bans

    Jacqueline Woodson on Navigating Book Bans and Staying Resilient in 2025

    By Brittany Allen  December 4, 2024
    Inspiration

    Contemporary Poets Respond (in Verse) to Taylor Swift

    By Kristie Frederick Daugherty  December 4, 2024
    Am I the Literary Asshole?

    I Don’t Want to Read Anymore: Am I the Literary Asshole?

    By Kristen Arnett  December 4, 2024
    Historical Fiction

    Tired of Today’s Tech: Writing Historical Fiction in a Technocratic American Present

    John Brandon on Coming to Terms with Contemporary Settings, How Technology Shapes Plots, and America’s Current Malaise

    By John Brandon  December 4, 2024
    Surrealism

    The Craft of Surrealism: On Accessing the Unconscious in Our Fiction

    By Anita Felicelli  December 4, 2024
    Experimental Fiction

    Rumors of Mark Leyner’s Disappearance Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

    By Adam Sternbergh  December 4, 2024
    Acting

    Method Writing: What Novelists Can Learn From Actors About Self-Expression

    By Eliza Moss  December 4, 2024
    Daily Fiction

    “Endlings”

    Carmen Maria Machado

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  December 4, 2024
    Best Books of 2024

    Lit Hub’s 38 Favorite Books of 2024

    By Emily Temple  December 3, 2024
    On Reading

    Reading With My Past Self: A Year of Revisiting Books

    By Angela Baggetta  December 3, 2024
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  December 5, 2024
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