• Craft and Advice

    Audiobooks

    The Most Anticipated Audiobooks of September

    What To Listen To This Month

     
    By AudioFile Magazine  August 29, 2025
    On Poetry

    Poet Sasha Debevec-McKenney on Writing Rituals, Maximalism, and How to Surprise an Audience

    By Peter Mishler  August 27, 2025
    The Critic and Her Publics

    Shame and English Translation on The Critic and Her Publics

    By The Critic and Her Publics   August 27, 2025
    Windham-Campbell Prizes

    Rana Dasgupta on Giuseppe di Lampedusa’s The Leopard

    By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast   August 27, 2025
    In Conversation

    Elaine Hsieh Chou on Literary Community, Identity, and Playing With Form

    By Jane Ciabattari  August 26, 2025
    Awakeners

    Tajja Isen and Nicole Chung on Becoming Colleagues and Friends

    By Awakeners   August 26, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    The Critic and Her Publics

    First Sentences and Translating Proust on The Critic and Her Publics

    By The Critic and Her Publics   August 25, 2025
    Poetry

    Richard Siken on the Most Fundamental Poetic Device There Is

    By Literary Hub  August 25, 2025
    On Translation

    Blurring Genre, Gender: The Rich Challenges of Translating Kim de l’Horizon’s Wild Fiction

    By Jamie Lee Searle  August 25, 2025
    The Craft of Writing

    Impulses, Sources, Trajectories: Douglas Unger on Discovering Why You Write

    “What kind of writer do I want to be? Where does my writing come from?”

    By Douglas Unger  August 29, 2025
    The Lit Hub Podcast

    The Lit Hub Podcast Slows Down With Some Nice Things

    By The Lit Hub Podcast   August 22, 2025
    The Craft of Writing

    Yiming Ma on the Benefits of Writing Blind

    By Yiming Ma  August 22, 2025
    Am I the Literary Asshole?

    Am I the Asshole For Wanting to Cheat on My “Literary” Novel?

    By Kristen Arnett  August 21, 2025
    Criticism

    Katie Kitamura on the Power of Voice in Uzodinma Iweala’s Beasts of No Nation

    Revisiting the Novel 20 Years Later

    By Katie Kitamura  August 21, 2025
    literary criticism

    Charlie Jane Anders on How A.S. Byatt’s Possession Paved the Way for Dark Academia

    By Charlie Jane Anders  August 19, 2025
    Day jobs

    Working Writers: Nalini Jones on How Having a Day Job in Music Helped Her Write a Novel

    By Nalini Jones  August 18, 2025
    Write-minded

    Amanda Knox and Lidia Yuknavitch on Reclaiming

    By Memoir Nation   August 18, 2025
    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

    In Conversation with Michael Kelleher for the Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast

    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
    Writing the Novel

    Literary Synchronicities: Jessica Francis Kane on Finding Coincidences While Writing

    By Jessica Francis Kane  August 12, 2025
    Write-minded

    Victoria Chang and Carvell Wallace on Emotions and Memoir

    By Memoir Nation   August 25, 2025
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