• Craft and Advice

    The Critic and Her Publics

    First Sentences and Translating Proust on The Critic and Her Publics

    a week-long season on translation begins

     
    By The Critic and Her Publics   August 25, 2025
    On Translation

    Blurring Genre, Gender: The Rich Challenges of Translating Kim de l’Horizon’s Wild Fiction

    By Jamie Lee Searle  August 25, 2025
    Write-minded

    Victoria Chang and Carvell Wallace on Emotions and Memoir

    By Memoir Nation   August 25, 2025
    The Lit Hub Podcast

    The Lit Hub Podcast Slows Down With Some Nice Things

    By The Lit Hub Podcast   August 22, 2025
    Am I the Literary Asshole?

    Am I the Asshole For Wanting to Cheat on My “Literary” Novel?

    By Kristen Arnett  August 21, 2025
    Criticism

    Katie Kitamura on the Power of Voice in Uzodinma Iweala’s Beasts of No Nation

    By Katie Kitamura  August 21, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    literary criticism

    Charlie Jane Anders on How A.S. Byatt’s Possession Paved the Way for Dark Academia

    By Charlie Jane Anders  August 19, 2025
    Day jobs

    Working Writers: Nalini Jones on How Having a Day Job in Music Helped Her Write a Novel

    By Nalini Jones  August 18, 2025
    Write-minded

    Amanda Knox and Lidia Yuknavitch on Reclaiming

    By Memoir Nation   August 18, 2025
    Poetry

    Richard Siken on the Most Fundamental Poetic Device There Is

    The Author of “I Do Know Some Things” in Conversation with Poets.org

    By Literary Hub  August 25, 2025
    The Craft of Writing

    Yiming Ma on the Benefits of Writing Blind

    By Yiming Ma  August 15, 2025
    Exile

    Exile, Imprisonment, Aloneness: Emma Sloley on the Dark Allure of Writing About Islands

    By Emma Sloley  August 14, 2025
    Fiction vs. Nonfiction

    Memoir On a Hill: Finding the Best Way to Tell the Story of America

    By Jason Mott  August 14, 2025
    Ukraine

    “Literature is a Force For Peace and Solidarity.” On Writing a Novel of the War in Ukraine

    Sam Wachman Unpacks the Challenges of Sharing Truths in Fiction

    By Sam Wachman  August 13, 2025
    Windham-Campbell Prizes

    Anthony Vahni Capildeo on Kimberly Campanello’s An Interesting Detail

    By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast   August 13, 2025
    Craft and Criticism

    How Small-Town Public Libraries Enrich the Generative Research Process

    By Nick Fuller Googins  August 12, 2025
    Writing the Novel

    Literary Synchronicities: Jessica Francis Kane on Finding Coincidences While Writing

    By Jessica Francis Kane  August 12, 2025
    In Conversation

    Jessica Francis Kane on Fictionalizing Penelope Fitzgerald’s Mexican Sojurn

    Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of “Fonseca”

    By Jane Ciabattari  August 12, 2025
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

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

    By Teddy Wayne  August 12, 2025
    The Writing Life

    How Working at a Grocery Store Helped Me Become a Better Writer

    By Karleigh Frisbie Brogan  August 11, 2025
    Motherhood

    On the Peace and Pleasure of Reading Books About Babies as a New Mother

    By Ellyn Gaydos  August 11, 2025
    Write-minded

    Maggie Tokuda-Hall and Lee Wind on Championing Marginalized Characters

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

    By Memoir Nation   August 11, 2025
    On Translation

    The Case for Renaming Kafka’s Metamorphosis as The Transformation

    By Mark Harman  August 8, 2025
    The Craft of Writing

    Jessica Gross on Writing a New York Novel as an Ex-New Yorker

    By Jessica Gross  August 8, 2025
    The Lit Hub Podcast

    On the Lit Hub Podcast: Publishers Marketplace 101, Maris Kreizman Burns It Down, and More

    By The Lit Hub Podcast   August 15, 2025
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