• Craft and Advice

    Life in a Pandemic

    I Wrote a Tragic Novel About the 1918 Flu. 14 Years Later, My Family Got COVID

    By Thomas Mullen  December 10, 2020
    Awards

    Chris Jackson on the Privilege of Being an Editor, and Publishing’s Systemic Problems

    By Literary Hub  December 10, 2020
    Family History

    On Bourbon, Books, and Writing Your Way Out of Small-Town America

    By Wright Thompson  December 9, 2020
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o on the Time He Met Langston Hughes
    (and More)

    By The Quarantine Tapes  December 8, 2020
    Writing Advice

    Lauren Martin on Realizing Writing Advice Applies
    to Life, Too

    By Lauren Martin  December 7, 2020
    First Draft

    Jonathan Lethem on the Wishfulness of Dystopian Fiction

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   December 7, 2020
    How to Proceed

    Arundhati Roy on Carrying the Inquiry Through Different
    Art Forms

    By How to Proceed   December 4, 2020
    Cover Reveal

    Aminatta Forna and Maaza Mengiste: A Conversation and Cover Reveal

    By Literary Hub  December 4, 2020
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Disability in America: Molly McCully Brown and Rebekah Taussig on Living and Writing 30 Years After the Americans with Disabilities Act

    By Fiction Non Fiction  December 3, 2020
    Diaries

    The Wing That Saved Me: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn on Happy Years in Vermont With His Wife Alya

    By Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn  December 3, 2020
    The Maris Review

    Sarah Shun-lien Bynum on Carving Out an Inner World… Online

    By The Maris Review  December 3, 2020
    NewberyTart

    Against ‘Color Blindness’ in Children’s Literature

    By NewberyTart   December 3, 2020
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: John Banville and Georgina Godwin in Conversation

    By The Virtual Book Channel  December 3, 2020
    Animals

    Jeff VanderMeer on the Saga of The Festival of the Freshwater Squid

    By Jeff VanderMeer  December 2, 2020
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Novelist C Pam Zhang in Conversation with John Freeman

    By The Virtual Book Channel  December 2, 2020
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Lee Child and Heather Martin at the Hay Festival Winter Weekend

    By The Virtual Book Channel  December 2, 2020
    Reading Women

    Leigh Bardugo on World-Building and the Limitations (and Gifts) of Maps

    By Reading Women  December 2, 2020
    WMFA

    Simon Han on What the Suburbs Can Tell Us About the American Way of Life

    By WMFA   December 2, 2020
    The Writing Life

    How to Let Go of a Book You’ve Been Writing for Twenty Years

    By Aaron Gilbreath  December 1, 2020
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Douglas Stuart at the Hay Festival Winter Weekend

    By The Virtual Book Channel  December 1, 2020
    Lit Century

    On Desire (and its Absence) in the Kristin Lavransdatter Trilogy

    By Lit Century   December 1, 2020
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Casey Gerald on the Possibilities of Transgenerational Joy

    By The Quarantine Tapes  December 1, 2020
    Biography

    The Biography I’ll Never Truly Finish Writing

    By Fortunato Salazar  November 30, 2020
    Letters

    Who Exactly Was Rilke’s Young Poet Correspondent?

    By Damion Searls  November 30, 2020
    First Draft

    Charles Baxter on Creating Wonderland Fiction with the Help of (Fictional) Drugs

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   November 30, 2020
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