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    The Lit Hub Podcast

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

    Featuring Erin Somers, Jonny Diamond, Maris Kreizman, James Folta, and Drew Broussard

     
    By The Lit Hub Podcast   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

    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
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    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

    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 Craft of Writing

    Yiming Ma on the Benefits of Writing Blind

    On Making the Invisible Visible

    By Yiming Ma  August 15, 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

    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

    How to Get Back in a New York State of Mind

    By Jessica Gross  August 8, 2025
    Am I the Literary Asshole?

    Am I the Literary Asshole For Prioritizing My Writing Over the People in My Life?

    By Kristen Arnett  August 7, 2025
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Chloe Caldwell Is Reading Now, and Next

    By Diana Arterian  August 7, 2025
    Awakeners

    Carl Phillips and Aditi Machado Feel Like Radically Different Poets

    By Awakeners   August 7, 2025
    Veterans

    Khadijah Queen on What It’s Like to Write Poetry on a Naval Destroyer

    “I’d steal a moment to write future me into existence, or to write my way through my feelings after another tedious day.”

    By Khadijah Queen  August 6, 2025
    Reading Lists

    Doubles, Glitches, Hallucinations, Dreams: Nine Books that Feature David Lynchian Deja Vu

    By Vanessa Roveto  August 6, 2025
    Folklore

    How Tochi Eze Found Her Writing Voice in Igbo Folklore

    By Tochi Eze  August 5, 2025
    Science fiction

    On the Joy of Building a Sci-Fi World with a Korean Inflection

    By Elaine U. Cho  August 5, 2025
    Autofiction

    How Writers Write Characters Who Are Writers Writing About Themselves; Or, But Is It Autofiction?

    Megan Cummins Explores the Porous Borders of Narrativizing Oneself on the Open Road

    By Megan Cummins  August 5, 2025
    Scandals

    Why a Nineteenth-Century Scandal of Class and Identity Still Speaks to Us

    By Nell Stevens  August 4, 2025
    News and Culture

    A Happy One-Trick Multi-Book Pony: On Writing Novels About Art History

    By B.A. Shapiro  August 4, 2025
    The Writing Life

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

    By Karleigh Frisbie Brogan  August 11, 2025
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