• Craft and Advice

    Windham-Campbell Prizes

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

    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
    First Draft

    Kaliane Bradley on the Slow-Moving Crisis of Identity

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   September 3, 2024
    Write-minded

    Jane Alison on Structure and Form

    By Write-minded   September 3, 2024
    The Craft of Writing

    Minrose Gwin on Creating Complex Villains

    By Minrose Gwin  August 30, 2024
    Authors

    Author Profiles Are No Replacement for Book Criticism But I Love Them Anyway

    By Maris Kreizman  August 29, 2024
    Tor Presents: Voyage Into Genre

    O.O. Sangoyomi and Rita Woods on Needing to Know Our History

    By Tor Presents: Voyage Into Genre   August 28, 2024
    Writing Trauma

    Rejecting Denial and Embracing Sorrow: On Writing the Story of a Husband’s Suicide

    By Alexandra Marshall  August 27, 2024
    Essays

    As a Writer, You Can Never Collect Too Many Endings

    By Steve Edwards  August 27, 2024
    First Draft

    Carl Phillips on His Love for Epigraphs

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   August 26, 2024
    Write-minded

    Maggie Smith & Shze-Hui Tjoa on New Ways of Thinking About Memoir

    By Write-minded   August 26, 2024
    Inspiration

    More Than a Muse: On Salvadoran Artist and Wife of Antoine, Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry

    By Gina María Balibrera  August 23, 2024
    The Craft of Writing

    Ledia Xhoga on the Joy and Pain of Letting Go (of Half Your Novel)

    By Ledia Xhoga  August 23, 2024
    Am I the Literary Asshole?

    If You Skip a Friend’s Book Launch Are You the Literary Asshole?

    By Kristen Arnett  August 22, 2024
    The History of Literature

    Glynne Walley on the Hakkenden

    By History of Literature  August 22, 2024
    Happiness

    Writing Happiness: Why It’s Worth It to Look on the Bright Side of Stories

    By Maribeth Fischer  August 21, 2024
    Windham-Campbell Prizes

    m. nourbeSe philip on Kamau Brathwaite’s Born to Slow Horses

    By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast   August 21, 2024
    In Conversation

    Lena Valencia on Chronicling the Beauty and Danger of the Desert

    By Jane Ciabattari  August 20, 2024
    New Books Tuesdays

    Danez Smith! Audre Lorde! Kwame Dawes! 27 new books out today.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  August 20, 2024
    In Conversation

    Sofia Samatar on Collage, Literary Community, and the Stunning Loneliness of Publishing

    By Liska Jacobs  August 19, 2024
    craft advice

    Choose Your Own Adventure: On the Limits of Personal Agency in Migrant Fiction

    By Ruben Reyes Jr.  August 19, 2024
    First Draft

    Jodi Picoult on the Importance of Recognition

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   August 19, 2024
    Write-minded

    Rainbow Rowell and Isabel Cañas on Fiction Outliers

    By Write-minded   August 19, 2024
    The Craft of Writing

    Jessica Anthony on Getting a Grip on Fictional Time

    By Jessica Anthony  August 16, 2024
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