• Craft and Advice

    Experimental Fiction

    Neither Plot Nor Character, But… Something Else? Ten Novels with Mind-Blowing Structures

    Lincoln Michel Recommends Alejandro Zambra, Renee Gladman, Percival Everett and More

     
    By Lincoln Michel  May 13, 2025
    In Conversation

    Karen E. Bender on Channeling Contemporary Anxieties Through Speculative Fiction

    By Jane Ciabattari  May 13, 2025
    TV Writing

    What Writing for The Wonder Years Taught Me About Novels

    By Mark B. Perry  May 12, 2025
    Writing Place

    Reimagining Disappeared Worlds: Nova Ren Suma on the Allure of Writing Lost Places

    By Nova Ren Suma  May 12, 2025
    First Draft

    Bob Johnson on Writing the Midwest

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   May 12, 2025
    Write-minded

    Nicole Graev Lipson on Self as a Fictional Character

    By Memoir Nation   May 12, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    The Craft of Writing

    Craig Mod on the Creative Power of Walking

    By Craig Mod  May 9, 2025
    Mothers and Daughters

    Friend, Foe, Family, Stranger: Fourteen Books on Black Motherhood by Black Daughters

    By Tramaine Suubi  May 9, 2025
    Art Monsters

    Locked in Rapunzel’s Tower: Reflections on the Art Monster and Women’s Loneliness

    By Amie Souza Reilly  May 9, 2025
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

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

    Featuring Lincoln Michel, Susanna Kwan, Domenica Ruta and More

    By Teddy Wayne  May 13, 2025
    Writing the Novel

    Literary Alchemy: On Fusing Research and Film Techniques to Write a Novel

    By Mo Ogrodnik  May 8, 2025
    The Writing Life

    The Rise of the Submission Industrial Complex

    By Benjamin Davis  May 7, 2025
    Publishing

    Save or Shred? On the Allure and Conundrum of Unpublished Novels

    By Randee Dawn  May 7, 2025
    Writing Communities

    Asking Toni’s Questions: Decentering Whiteness in Literary Spaces

    “It is the discomfort of asking and of making space for the answers...that will allow us to stay in the room together.”

    By Rosa Castellano  May 7, 2025
    The Critic and Her Publics

    Sasha Weiss on Mischief in the Pages

    By The Critic and Her Publics   May 6, 2025
    Jane Austen

    The Power of Persuasion: Why Lawyers Love Jane Austen

    By Natalie Jenner  May 6, 2025
    craft advice

    I Take No Pleasure in Having Written an “Eerily Prescient” Novel

    By Kevin Nguyen  May 6, 2025
    Anniversaries

    Kazuo Ishiguro Reflects on Never Let Me Go, 20 Years Later

    On the Decades-Long Creative Process Behind His Most Successful Novel

    By Kazuo Ishiguro  May 5, 2025
    Female Friendship

    More Than a Subplot: Five Novels That Explore and Center Female Friendship

    By Disha Bose  May 5, 2025
    literary criticism

    Astrid López Méndez on the Role of Verse and Resistance to Poetry

    By Astrid López Méndez  May 5, 2025
    First Draft

    Lynn Steger Strong on Being Porous to the World

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   May 5, 2025
    Write-minded

    Jill Ciment on What It Means to Reconsider a Memoir

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

    By Memoir Nation   May 5, 2025
    The Craft of Writing

    “I Hope You Don’t Mind That I’ve Shared You.” Arianna Rebolini on Writing About Your Kid

    By Arianna Rebolini  May 2, 2025
    Am I the Literary Asshole?

    My Mean, Rich, Hot Ex-Friend is a Mediocre Literary Darling and I Hate It

    By Kristen Arnett  May 1, 2025
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Jennifer Hope Choi Is Reading Now, and Next

    By Diana Arterian  May 8, 2025
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