• Craft and Advice

    Children's Literature

    In Search of the Moomins in Helsinki: The Enduring Magic of Tove Jannson’s Characters

    Christiana Spens Returns to Her Father’s world (and the Beloved Moomin Books)

     
    By Christiana Spens  November 20, 2024
    Awakeners

    Leslie Jamison and Emmeline Clein on Words That Cut

     November 19, 2024
    Correspondence

    Oliver Sacks Letters to Thom Gunn: Inside an Epistolary Friendship

    By Oliver Sacks  November 18, 2024
    The Writing Life

    A Bag Full of Trouble: How I Found My Way Into My Debut Novel

    By Bryan VanDyke  November 18, 2024
    Write-minded

    Carvell Wallace on Embracing Contradiction

    By Write-minded   November 18, 2024
    The Craft of Writing

    Adrian Tomine on Building a Creative Career

    By Adrian Tomine  November 15, 2024
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Am I the Literary Asshole?

    My Good Friend’s Partner is a Terrible Writer and I HATE IT: Am I the Literary Asshole?

    By Kristen Arnett  November 14, 2024
    What If?

    Double, Double: On the Unsettling Power of Doppelganger Stories

    By Padma Viswanathan  November 14, 2024
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Ishion Hutchinson Is Reading Now, and Next

    By Diana Arterian  November 14, 2024
    Illness

    Slowing Poetry: On Learning to Walk and Write in a Changing, Ill Body

    Traci Brimhall Transforms Her Poetry as Chronic Illness Shifts the Pacing of Her Life

    By Traci Brimhall  November 19, 2024
    Filipino Literature

    A Love Song to the Philippines: The Revolutionary Power of Jessica Hagedorn’s Dogeaters

    By Patrick Rosal  November 13, 2024
    Family Stories

    Fictionalizing Family: On What’s True and What’s Invented About Our Origins

    By Linda Grant  November 13, 2024
    In Conversation

    Marguerite Sheffer on Crafting a Collection of Century-Spanning Speculative Fiction

    By Jane Ciabattari  November 12, 2024
    Rereadings

    Ann Patchett on Annotating Her Award-Winning Novel Bel Canto Twenty Years Later

    “Through annotation, I saw patterns in the book I’d scarcely been aware of...”

    By Ann Patchett  November 11, 2024
    Historical Fiction

    On Understanding and Capturing the Horrors of War and Fascism

    By Julian Zabalbeascoa  November 11, 2024
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Kathryn Davis Couldn’t Live Without Musicals and Writes Fiction Like a Piano Player (and Other Tidbits)

    By Literary Hub  November 11, 2024
    In Conversation

    On Poetry as Historical Record, the Legacy of Colonialism, and Depicting Disaster in Verse

    By Literary Hub  November 11, 2024
    First Draft

    Megan Pinto on Moving With Language

    In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   November 11, 2024
    Write-minded

    Elizabeth Rosner on Listening

    By Write-minded   November 11, 2024
    The Craft of Writing

    Six Writers on Procrastination

    By Literary Hub  November 8, 2024
    Letters

    In Search of a Time Lost: A Selection of Proust’s Letters Translated by Lydia Davis

    By Literary Hub  November 6, 2024
    Writing Process

    A Room of One’s Own: On Finding Beauty and Inspiration in Meditation

    Leanne Ogasawara Considers the Importance of Stillness and Contemplation For Writers and Translators

    By Leanne Ogasawara  November 6, 2024
    First Draft

    Tracy O’Neill on Interpretation

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   November 4, 2024
    Write-minded

    Barbara Ridley on Centering Marginalized Characters in Your Fiction

    By Write-minded   November 4, 2024
    Parenthood

    “She Is Not Me.” What Reading to Your Children Teaches You About Yourself

    By Olivia A. Cole  November 14, 2024
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