• Craft and Advice

    Writing Advice

    Writing Advice and Literary Wisdom from the Great E.B. White

    “I think writing is mainly work.”

     
    By Sam Weller  July 11, 2025
    Craft

    Genre is a Container, Not a Cage, a Tool, Not a Limitation

    By Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante  July 11, 2025
    African Literature

    War, Confession, Political Reimagining: Five Essential Books by Kenyan Authors

    By Wanjeri Gakuru  July 11, 2025
    In Memoriam

    Edmund White: Remembering a Doyen of LGBTQ+ Literature and His Mentorship

    By Michael T. Luongo  July 11, 2025
    Behind the Mic

    Three Earphones-Award Winners from AudioFile

    By Behind the Mic   July 11, 2025
    Am I the Literary Asshole?

    If You Use AI in Your Writing YOU Are the Literary Asshole

    By Kristen Arnett  July 10, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    craft advice

    How Does a Critic Write a Novel About Critics?

    By Charlotte Runcie  July 10, 2025
    Mothers and Daughters

    The Church of the Screen: A Daughter’s Reflections on an Early Cinematic Education

    By Joanna Howard  July 10, 2025
    Language

    Cushty, Prat, Cowson… and Other British Terms I Can No Longer Say in America

    By Christopher J. Yates  July 9, 2025
    The Craft of Writing

    Irenosen Okojie on Creating New Mythologies

    In Praise of the Excitement of Reinterpretation

    By Irenosen Okojie  July 11, 2025
    Fathers and Daughters

    Writing the Memoir My Father Never Could

    By Margot Singer  July 9, 2025
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

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

    By Teddy Wayne  July 8, 2025
    craft advice

    Croatia as a Character? Lidija Hilje on Trying—and Failing—to Write a Universal Story

    By Lidija Hilje  July 8, 2025
    First Draft

    Andrew Porter on What Unites His Work

    In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   July 7, 2025
    Write-minded

    Prabal Gurang on Why No Outside Validation Is Needed

    By Memoir Nation   July 7, 2025
    Experimental Fiction

    Five Experimental Anti-Novels That Break the Form (Beautifully)

    By Dan Leach  July 3, 2025
    The Craft of Writing

    Clarence A. Haynes on Finding the Soundscape of Your Novel

    By Clarence A. Haynes  July 3, 2025
    Plot

    Have You Considered an Anarchist Approach to Plot?

    Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante on Throwing Bombs, Emotional Movement, and Other Plot Devices

    By Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante  July 3, 2025
    Aging

    Jessica Berger Gross on the Special Euphoria of Debuting as a Novelist in Her 50s

    By Jessica Berger Gross  July 2, 2025
    Writers in Conversation

    Other, Better Worlds: Pip Adam on the Possibilities of Politically Engaged Speculative Fiction

    By Danielle Dutton  July 2, 2025
    Windham-Campbell Prizes

    Matilda Feyiṣayọ Ibini on Bola Agbaje’s Gone Too Far!

    By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast   July 2, 2025
    The Craft of Writing

    Libby Buck on Writing Like an Art Historian

    “I follow the object, asking it to speak to me.”

    By Libby Buck  July 1, 2025
    Publishing

    A Series of Unfortunate Salaries:
    Maris Kreizman on Fighting the Publishing Industry’s Elitism

    By Maris Kreizman  July 1, 2025
    The Writing Life

    Paris Made My Cheeks Hurt: On Language and Muscle Memory

    By Benedict Nguyễn  July 1, 2025
    On Translation

    Cruising the Holy Highway: Mary Jo Bang Journeys Through Dante’s “Paradiso”

    By Mary Jo Bang  July 9, 2025
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