• Craft and Advice

    The Craft of Writing

    Gemma Tizzard on Researching for Historical Fiction

    “It’s not a job for the faint of heart, or the impatient. But for those of us with brains that crave this kind of work, it is bliss.”

     
    By Gemma Tizzard  January 24, 2025
    craft advice

    The Shape of a Story: On Losing (and Finding) the Plot of Your Novel

    By Emma Knight  January 23, 2025
    Palestinian Literature

    Betty Shamieh on the Next Generation of Palestinian Fiction

    By Betty Samieh  January 22, 2025
    Recovery

    “When I Quit Drinking I Quit Writing.” Matthew Nienow on Stumbling Back Into Poetic Vulnerability

    By Matthew Nienow  January 22, 2025
    Awakeners

    Adrian Matejka and Austin Araujo Are “Whole-Neighborhood” Poets

    By Awakeners   January 22, 2025
    Publishing

    Trump 2.0: What the Book World Should Do Now

    By Josh Cook  January 21, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    In Conversation

    Sara Sligar on Modernizing an 18th-Century Literary Cult Classic

    By Jane Ciabattari  January 21, 2025
    Write-minded

    Lee Wind on Creating the Heroes You Want to See in the World

    By Write-minded   January 21, 2025
    First Draft

    David Wroblewski on Writing by Brute Force

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   January 21, 2025
    Am I the Literary Asshole?

    Ugh, I’m in My Friend’s Autofiction and I Hate It: Am I the Literary Asshole?

    Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior

    By Kristen Arnett  January 23, 2025
    Publishing

    How to Talk About Your Own Book

    By Maris Kreizman  January 16, 2025
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Aria Aber Is Reading Now, and Next

    By Diana Arterian  January 16, 2025
    literary criticism

    The Danger of Lowering Your Heart’s Volume: On the Writing of Ross Gay and Amy Leach

    By Jane Zwart  January 15, 2025
    On Writing

    My Cherished Friend, My Cursed Rival: On the Perils of Literary Envy

    Layne Fargo Explores the Power of Celebrating Others' Literary Success (and Why Their Success Is Also Yours)

    By Layne Fargo  January 15, 2025
    Retellings

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

    By Maria Zoccola  January 14, 2025
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

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

    By Teddy Wayne  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

    The “Author of Three Leaves, Three Roots: Poems on the Haiti–Congo” Story in Conversation with Poets.org

    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
    Am I the Literary Asshole?

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

    Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior

    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
    The Craft of Writing

    Erika Swyler on Worldbuilding as Set Design

    By Erika Swyler  January 17, 2025
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