“I Don’t Want to Be That Kind of Writer...” Sam Lipsyte on Eliminating the Desire to Imitate Other Writers

“I Don’t Want to Be That Kind of Writer...” Sam Lipsyte on Eliminating the Desire to Imitate Other Writers

In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | December 14, 2022

Moriel Rothman-Zecher on the Magic of Writing at Sunrise

Moriel Rothman-Zecher on the Magic of Writing at Sunrise

“It is my job, simply, to open my eyes, and place my fingers on the keyboard and then, let go.”

By Moriel Rothman-Zecher | December 14, 2022

Jan Morris Talks Travel, Dictionaries, and Other People’s Diaries

Jan Morris Talks Travel, Dictionaries, and Other People’s Diaries

Paul Clements in Conversation with the Late, Great Travel Writer

By Paul Clements | December 13, 2022

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

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

In Conversation with Meghan Gilliss, Lawrence Jackson, Adam Langer, Murray Lee, and Mecca Jamilah Sullivan

By Teddy Wayne | December 13, 2022

Alison Watts: The Life of a Translator and Reading for Fun When Your Job is in the Literary World

Alison Watts: The Life of a Translator and Reading for Fun When Your Job is in the Literary World

In Conversation with Christopher Hermelin on So Many Damn Books

By So Many Damn Books | December 13, 2022

Pitchaya Sudbanthad on the Pleasures of Restoring Fountain Pens, and Finding Respite from Writerly Abstraction

Pitchaya Sudbanthad on the Pleasures of Restoring Fountain Pens, and Finding Respite from Writerly Abstraction

Introducing When I’m Not Writing, a Series About Writers and Their Hobbies

By Pitchaya Sudbanthad | December 12, 2022

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Robin Coste Lewis on Giving the Reader a Poetic Experience

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When Your Book Tour is Interrupted by a Near-Death Experience

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Elizabeth Strout: How Her Imagination as a Child Has Steered Her Writing Career

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Sam Lipsyte on the What and the How of Writing

Sam Lipsyte on the What and the How of Writing

“Style is your filter on all of this... how it summons language in you, how life comes to be alive on the page.”

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How Chekhov Made Sense of His Surroundings Through Writing Short Stories

How Chekhov Made Sense of His Surroundings Through Writing Short Stories

Bob Blaisdell on Chronicling the Literary and Personal Life of One of Russia’s Most Prolific Writers

By Bob Blaisdell | December 9, 2022

What Happens When a Novelist “Overparents” Their Characters? How to Avoid Helicopter Authoring

What Happens When a Novelist “Overparents” Their Characters? How to Avoid Helicopter Authoring

Allegra Goodman in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

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Our Favorite Lit Hub Stories From 2022

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#ReadingAfrica: Five Writers and Publishers Discuss the Continent’s Boundless Literary Landscape

#ReadingAfrica: Five Writers and Publishers Discuss the Continent’s Boundless Literary Landscape

Ed Nawotka Talks to Sulaiman Adebowale, Colleen Higgs, Jessica Powers, Sandra Tamele, and Rachel Zadok

By Literary Hub | December 8, 2022

Erika T. Wurth on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Intergenerational Trauma, and Heavy Metal

Erika T. Wurth on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Intergenerational Trauma, and Heavy Metal

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | December 8, 2022

Evette Dionne: “Representation Isn’t Everything, But It’s Something”

Evette Dionne: “Representation Isn’t Everything, But It’s Something”

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | December 8, 2022

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