• Craft and Advice

    Retellings

    From Ancient Troy to 1990s Tennessee: Maria Zoccola on Creating an Afterlife For Homer’s Helen

    “We’re raising eidolons, real and not-real, tales that move and breathe and stand side by side, speaking Troy into the future.”

     
    By Maria Zoccola  January 14, 2025
    Representation

    In Defense of the Messy Queers: Why “Good” Representation Isn”t Enough

    By Edward Underhill  January 14, 2025
    In Conversation

    Danielle Legros Georges on Docupoetics, the Nuances of Haiti, and Letter-Writing as Poetry

    By Literary Hub  January 13, 2025
    First Draft

    Paolo Bacigalupi on Building Worlds

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   January 13, 2025
    Write-minded

    Susan Lieu on Not Letting the Past Stay in the Past

    By Write-minded   January 13, 2025
    The Craft of Writing

    Adam Haslett on the Uses of Doubt

    By Adam Haslett  January 10, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Am I the Literary Asshole?

    I Want to Write About This Jerk Who Ghosted Me: Am I the Literary Asshole?

    By Kristen Arnett  January 9, 2025
    Climate Crisis

    What Will You Save When the Climate Crisis Comes For You?

    By Eiren Caffall  January 8, 2025
    On Reading

    From the Wakefield Twins to Claudia Kishi: How We See and Don’t See Ourselves in What We Read

    By Gloria L. Huang  January 8, 2025
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

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

    Featuring Pico Iyer, Karissa Chen, Betty Shamieh and More

    By Teddy Wayne  January 14, 2025
    Writing the Novel

    Bylines and Big Edits: How a Career in Journalism Taught Elizabeth Harris the Techniques of Fiction

    By Elizabeth Harris  January 7, 2025
    First Draft

    Amitava Kumar and Claire Messud on Literary Friendship

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   January 6, 2025
    Write-minded

    Forrest Gander on the Poem as Novel

    By Write-minded   January 6, 2025
    Best of 2024

    The 50 Biggest Literary Stories of 2024

    Including Alice Munro, Keanu Reeves, and Nicholas Sparks's Chicken Salad

    By Literary Hub  December 24, 2024
    Am I the Literary Asshole?

    I Loathe Very Online Writers: Am I the Literary Asshole?

    By Kristen Arnett  December 19, 2024
    On Poetry

    Betsy Fagin on the Undivided Self, Mystical Verse, and Reimagining Hemingway and Kerouac

    By Peter Mishler  December 17, 2024
    In Conversation

    Weike Wang on Exploring Cultural Contrasts in Fiction

    By Jane Ciabattari  December 17, 2024
    Awakeners

    Kyoko Mori and Abi Newhouse Rebelled Quietly At First

    In Conversation with Lena Crown on Awakeners

    By Awakeners   December 17, 2024
    Self-Help?

    The Ultimate Passive-Aggressive Holiday Gift: Why Self-Help Books Today Are Failing Readers

    By Ian Williams  December 16, 2024
    Behind the Mic

    Hope Newshouse on the Best Children’s and Family Audiobooks of 2024

    By Behind the Mic   December 16, 2024
    Write-minded

    Zahid Rafiq on Unsatisfying Endings

    By Write-minded   December 16, 2024
    First Draft

    Simon Rich on Changing How He Tells Stories

    In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   December 16, 2024
    Behind the Mic

    Alejandro Antonio Ruiz on the Best YA Audiobooks of 2024

    By Behind the Mic   December 15, 2024
    The Craft of Writing

    Ekphrastic Influences: Derek Mong on Finding Inspiration at the Museum

    By Derek Mong  December 13, 2024
    On Writing

    It’s Not My Job to Understand Agents or the Marketplace. My Job is to Write.

    By Kevin Maloney  January 8, 2025
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