• Craft and Advice

    Am I the Literary Asshole?

    Am I the Asshole For Absolutely Hating Literary Awards Season?

    Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior

     
    By Kristen Arnett  September 18, 2025
    On Poetry

    Poet Margot Kahn on Why She Left One Particular Poem Out of Her Collection

    By Margot Kahn  September 18, 2025
    Divas

    The Fine Art of Defining a Diva

    By Jerome Charyn  September 17, 2025
    Thresholds

    Miriam Toews Pushes Against Silences

    By Thresholds   September 17, 2025
    Memoir

    Sasha Bonét on Black Motherhood, Fragmented Storytelling, and Untangling History

    By G'ra Asim  September 16, 2025
    Mothers and Sons

    Why Are There So Few Books About Mothers and Sons?

    By Sam Sussman  September 16, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    In Conversation

    Angela Flournoy on Writing a Polyphonic Novel of Black Female Friendship

    By Jane Ciabattari  September 16, 2025
    Drafts

    Finding Inspiration (and Joy) While Drafting Among the Fjords

    By David Greig  September 15, 2025
    The Body

    Pain as Progress: On Bodybuilding, Poetry and Transformation

    By Isabella DeSendi  September 15, 2025
    On Poetry

    How Writing Poetry Can Freeze Time

    Heidi Seaborn on Regrets and Becoming a Poet in Her Fifties

    By Heidi Seaborn  September 18, 2025
    First Draft

    Nini Berendt and Evanthia Bromiley on Debut Discovery

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   September 15, 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
    The Craft of Writing

    In Praise of Writing in Cemeteries

    By Darcie Dennigan  September 12, 2025
    Rejection

    Sally Mann on the Crushing, Lifelong Reality of Artistic Rejection

    “Just my life’s work there that you’re tossing around like scrap paper.”

    By Sally Mann  September 11, 2025
    On Poetry

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

    By Natalie Diaz  September 11, 2025
    Book Clubs

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

    By Linda-Marie Barrett  September 10, 2025
    Writing

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

    By Samantha Browning Shea  September 10, 2025
    Historical Fiction

    Connecting the Dots: On Creating Fiction from Facts

    Beth Kephart Considers the Craft of Bringing a Fiction Writer’s Eye to Real Lives

    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
    Craft

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

    By Alejandro Varela  September 9, 2025
    Sequels

    Returning to the World of Chocolat, 25 Years Later

    By Joanne Harris  September 8, 2025
    Write-minded

    Jeannie Vanasco on the Mother-Daughter Relationship in Memoir

    From the Memoir Nation Podcast, Hosted by Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner

    By Memoir Nation   September 8, 2025
    First Draft

    Caleb Gayle on Reorienting the Reader

    By Memoir Nation   September 8, 2025
    The Lit Hub Podcast

    It’s Back to School and Spooky Season on The Lit Hub Podcast

    By The Lit Hub Podcast   September 5, 2025
    Write-minded

    Roxane Gay on Memoir as Manifesto

    By Memoir Nation   September 15, 2025
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