• Craft and Advice

    First Draft

    Alice McDermott: Connection Is at the Heart of Why We Read and Write

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   January 3, 2022
    The Maris Review

    Jen Spyra on the Art of Comedic Escalation

    By The Maris Review  December 23, 2021
    The Craft of Writing

    Nikita Lalwani on the Art of Eavesdropping

    By Nikita Lalwani  December 23, 2021
    Pandemics

    Piercing the Veil of Silence: How the Outbreak of COVID-19 Impacted the Writing of My Book

    By Wallis Wilde-Menozzi  December 23, 2021
    New Books Network

    Greed and Skullduggery: Andrea Penrose Discusses Her Latest Title in the Wrexford & Sloane Mystery Series

    By New Books Network  December 23, 2021
    Journalism

    When New Journalism Was New: Gay Talese on His Legendary Esquire Profile of Frank Sinatra

    By Gay Talese  December 22, 2021
    Otherppl

    Stacy D. Flood on Why He’ll Never Write a Novel

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  December 22, 2021
    In Conversation

    “A Story That Wouldn’t Let Me Go.” Nadifa Mohamed on the 1952 Case at the Heart of Her Novel

    By Jane Ciabattari  December 21, 2021
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

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

    By Teddy Wayne  December 21, 2021
    Otherppl

    Megan Milks on Using Genre Shifts to Explore Transness

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  December 21, 2021
    Historical Fiction

    Why You Shouldn’t Read Historical Fiction to Learn History

    By Juhea Kim  December 20, 2021
    The Craft of Writing

    Tiphanie Yanique on Breaking the Rules of Form

    By Tiphanie Yanique  December 17, 2021
    The Common

    Mary O’Donoghue on Removing Comfort in Her Writing

    By The Common  December 17, 2021
    New Books Network

    Rin Chupeco on How Fan Fiction Molded Them as a Writer

    By New Books Network  December 17, 2021
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Nadifa Mohamed on Writing the Convoluted Terrains of Immigration

    By Fiction Non Fiction  December 16, 2021
    The Maris Review

    How to Make a Better World Without Centering Yourself: A Conversation with Alex McElroy

    By The Maris Review  December 16, 2021
    Otherppl

    “I Think About Don Quixote a Lot.” Robin McLean on Narrative Versus Thought

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  December 16, 2021
    Writing

    How to Write (Almost) Anything: A Very Serious Guide by Tom Bissell

    By Tom Bissell  December 15, 2021
    Reading Women

    “Books From My Own Community.” A Farewell from Reading Women

    By Reading Women  December 15, 2021
    Reading Women

    Helen Hoang on Her—and Her Character’s—Diagnosis Process for Autism

    By Reading Women  December 14, 2021
    In Conversation

    Tom Bissell Talks Hollywood, Adaptation, and Feeling Like an “Actual Writer”

    By Jane Ciabattari  December 14, 2021
    Otherppl

    Duncan Birmingham on the Creative Gratification of Short Stories

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  December 14, 2021
    The Hub

    “Never think you’re too weird.” Read Anne Rice’s best writing advice.

    By Emily Temple  December 13, 2021
    Craft

    What Happens When I Don’t Understand My Own Novel?

    By Bonnie Friedman  December 13, 2021
    Cartoons

    On New Yorker Cartoonist Ed Koren’s Sketches for the End Times

    By Howard Norman  December 13, 2021
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