• Craft and Advice

    The Hub

    Roberto Bolaño’s best advice for writing short stories is . . . pretty wild.

    By Emily Temple  July 14, 2021
    Storytelling

    Plot Is Just Music You Sing In Your Mind: How Popular Rock Songs Can Help Shape Your Novel

    By Katie Crouch  July 14, 2021
    Thresholds

    Kaveh Akbar on Getting Sober and the Supernatural Language of Writing

    By Thresholds   July 14, 2021
    Tor Presents: Voyage Into Genre

    Voyage Into Genre with T. L. Huchu, P. Djèlí Clark, and Kamau Ware

    By Tor Presents: Voyage Into Genre   July 14, 2021
    Otherppl

    Matt Bell on Solving Crises Through Speculative Fiction (and Having Fun Doing It)

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  July 14, 2021
    Writers on Writers

    Dana Spiotta on Turning to James Joyce for Inspiration and the Power of Cultural Reckonings

    By Jane Ciabattari  July 13, 2021
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

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

    By Teddy Wayne  July 13, 2021
    Humor

    To Write a Comic Novel, I Had to Shed the Weight of Expectation (and Adopt a New Name)

    By Tahmima Anam  July 13, 2021
    Family Histories

    What Writing the Story of a Divorce Taught Me About My Own

    By Joyce Maynard  July 12, 2021
    First Draft

    Steven Pressfield on the Artist
    as Warrior

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   July 12, 2021
    The Literary Life

    Richard Flanagan on Writing (and Rewriting) Through the Devastating Bushfires in Tasmania and Australia

    By The Literary Life  July 9, 2021
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Rebecca Mead on Finding Ways to Keep Reporting Through Lockdown

    By The Quarantine Tapes  July 9, 2021
    The Craft of Writing

    Anne Lamott on Writing Compelling Dialogue

    By Anne Lamott  July 9, 2021
    The Maris Review

    Dana Spiotta on the Inevitable Reckonings of Generation X

    By The Maris Review  July 8, 2021
    Craft

    What Do You Do When a Short Story Wants to Be a Novel?

    By Rachel Donohue  July 8, 2021
    Family Stories

    What the Dead Leave Behind: On the Way a Life Can Inhabit a House

    By Emily Austin  July 8, 2021
    The Hub

    Jason Mott wants you to reconsider the “beautiful time capsule” of film noir.

    By Vanessa Willoughby  July 7, 2021
    Money

    Deus Ex Machina with a Credit Card: On the Pleasures of Writing Supremely Rich Characters

    By Mikaella Clements and Onjuli Datta  July 7, 2021
    Thresholds

    Kristen Radtke: “Putting Anything into the World Is Totally Humiliating”

    By Thresholds   July 7, 2021
    Storytelling

    How Many “Types” of Stories Are There? And Can They Save Us?

    By David Chrisinger  July 7, 2021
    Parents

    Surviving Tough Love: Growing Up as the Child of Chinese Immigrants

    By Elina Zhang  July 7, 2021
    Otherppl

    Greg Gerke: “We Want More Attention, We Don’t Want to Make Great Art”

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  July 7, 2021
    Storybound

    Omar El Akkad Reads From American War and What Strange Paradise

    By Storybound   July 6, 2021
    First Draft

    Marisa Silver on (Finally) Nailing Down Her Novel’s Point of View

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   July 6, 2021
    Otherppl

    Mark Leidner on Painstakingly Revising Poems… and Twitter Jokes

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  July 6, 2021
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