• Craft and Advice

    Characters

    Why We Need More (and Better) Depictions of Old People in Literature

    Anna Johnston on How to Write Aging Characters without Valorizing Youth

     
    By Anna Johnston  September 13, 2024
    Immigrant Stories

    Language, Love and Visibility: Looking Back on an Immigrant Childhood

    By Daisy Hernández  September 13, 2024
    Storytelling

    On the Yemeni Jewish Tradition of Musical Storytelling

    By Ayelet Tsabari  September 12, 2024
    Memory

    On Memory’s Ghosts and the Search for the Perfect Writing Space

    By Karen Salyer McElmurray  September 12, 2024
    Writers and Money

    Why Aimie K. Runyan Spent Her First Literary Paycheck on a Coffee Mug

    By Aimie K. Runyan  September 11, 2024
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

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

    By Teddy Wayne  September 10, 2024
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    I'm a Writer But

    Richard Mirabella on Blood Ties

    By I'm a Writer But   September 10, 2024
    In Conversation

    Anna Marie Tendler on Self-Doubt, Hospitals, and Living on Her Own Terms

    By Cat Marnell  September 9, 2024
    On Poetry

    Dunya Mikhail Talks Mythology, Translating Her Own Poetry, and Exploring the Past Through Objects

    By Literary Hub  September 9, 2024
    The Craft of Writing

    Brian Evenson on Finding the Language of Horror

    "It is about remembering the fear or wrongness that you felt in your body."

    By Brian Evenson  September 13, 2024
    First Draft

    Jessica Shattuck on Idealism, Aging, and Outlines

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   September 9, 2024
    The Craft of Writing

    Six Writers on Getting Words on the Page

    By Literary Hub  September 6, 2024
    African Diaspora

    Writing Between Worlds: Navigating My African and American Identities on the Page

    By Itoro Bassey  September 6, 2024
    On Poetry

    An Ode to the Ode: Lory Bedikian on How the Form Helped Her Grieve and Grow

    The Author of “Jagadakeer: Apology to the Body” Explores the Many Meanings and Possibilities of a Poetic Category

    By Lory Bedikian  September 6, 2024
    In Conversation

    American Nightmare: Alice Driver on the Immigrants Who Risked Their Lives at a Meatpacking Plant During Covid

    By Sarah Viren  September 5, 2024
    On Teaching

    Toward a More Generous Pedagogy

    By Michele Herman  September 5, 2024
    Writing Place

    Letting Places Grow Like Characters: Transforming Your Hometown into a Fictional World

    By Shannon Bowring  September 5, 2024
    Plot

    “A Word About a Word Addressed to a Word.” On Embracing the Fictiveness of Fiction

    For Maureen Sun Transparency Is Not Always a Virtue

    By Maureen Sun  September 5, 2024
    Am I the Literary Asshole?

    I Think Memoirs Nowadays Are Just Completely Self-Involved: Am I the Literary Asshole?

    By Kristen Arnett  September 5, 2024
    In Conversation

    Rachel Kushner on Crafting a Philosophical Spy Novel For an Age of Environmental Anxiety

    By Jane Ciabattari  September 4, 2024
    Mindfulness

    Building Another Kind of Peace: How Poetry Help Can Calm Our Tumultuous Spirits

    By Megan Pinto  September 4, 2024
    Windham-Campbell Prizes

    Kathryn Scanlan on Joseph Mitchell’s Joe Gould’s Secret

    In Conversation for the Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast

    By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast   September 4, 2024
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Rachel Kushner Once Threw a Bret Easton Ellis Novel Across Her Room (and Other Tidbits)

    By Rachel Kushner  September 3, 2024
    The Art of Editing

    Editing Without Ego: How Katharine S. White Quietly Shaped The New Yorker’s Writers

    By Amy Reading  September 3, 2024
    Write-minded

    Brontez Purnell on Staying Unclassifiable

    By Write-minded   September 9, 2024
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