• Craft and Advice

    Naming

    The Poetry of Chinese Names

    By Wendy Chen  May 20, 2024
    Film

    Pulitzer Prize-Winner Ilyon Woo on Craft Lessons From the Late Filmmaker Dai Sil Kim Gibson

    By Ilyon Woo  May 20, 2024
    craft advice

    The Thrill of Discovery: How Hidden Messages Make Fiction Fun

    By J. Nicole Jones  May 20, 2024
    Write-minded

    Susan Kiyo Ito on the Raw Truth of Exposure

    By Write-minded   May 20, 2024
    The Writing Life

    Better in the Middle: Eight Writing Hacks From a Mid-List Author

    By Anna Dorn  May 17, 2024
    The Craft of Writing

    Anna Noyes on Writing the Book That Keeps Her Awake

    By Anna Noyes  May 17, 2024
    Am I the Literary Asshole?

    I Want to Put a Dozen Blurbs on My Book: Am I the Literary Asshole?

    By Kristen Arnett  May 16, 2024
    Small Town Stories

    We’re Not in Winesburg Anymore: On the Literature of the Small Town

    By Carolyn Kuebler  May 16, 2024
    On Translation

    The Secret Master: On Translating the Forgotten Argentine Writer Ángel Bonomini

    By Jordan Landsman  May 16, 2024
    The History of Literature

    Adelle Waldman on Muckraking Novels

    By History of Literature  May 16, 2024
    The Critic and Her Publics

    Lauren Michele Jackson on the Collision of the Internet, Race, and Gender

    By The Critic and Her Publics   May 14, 2024
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

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

    By Teddy Wayne  May 14, 2024
    Death

    Who Will Finish Your Manuscript When You Die?

    By Tessa Fontaine  May 14, 2024
    Historical Fiction

    Claire Messud on Writing the Past That Lives Within Us

    By Jane Ciabattari  May 14, 2024
    The Craft of Writing

    Saying the Unsayable, and Listening to Silence: Jon Fosse on How Writing Plays Transformed His Craft

    By Jon Fosse  May 13, 2024
    Coming out

    Continual Self-Revision: Bee Sacks on Coming Out As a Nonbinary Author

    By Bee Sacks  May 13, 2024
    Write-minded

    Jennifer Leigh Selig on Deep Memoir

    By Write-minded   May 13, 2024
    First Draft

    Sunjeev Sahota on Novels as Detective Stories

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   May 13, 2024
    Writing Advice

    Alice McDermott’s Writing Mantra:
    “Ah, Fuck Em.”

    By Alice McDermott  May 10, 2024
    The Craft of Writing

    Karen Tei Yamashita on Seeking Stories in the Soil

    By Karen Tei Yamashita  May 10, 2024
    Queer Literature

    Sitting at the Cool Table: Christina Cooke and Marissa Higgins on the (Supposed) Renaissance of Queer Lit

    By Christina Cooke  May 10, 2024
    Fatherhood

    A Different Kind of Dad Book: Lucas Mann on Fatherhood, Writing, and the Essay as an Act of Care

    By Brian Gresko  May 9, 2024
    craft advice

    How the Beloved Memory of Dead Pets Can Help Guide the Writing Process

    By Simon Van Booy  May 9, 2024
    Journals

    Why You Should Keep a Garden Journal (Even if You Don’t Have a Garden)

    By Fiona Warnick  May 9, 2024
    The History of Literature

    Sophie Ratcliffe on Loss and Love

    By History of Literature  May 9, 2024
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