• Craft and Advice

    Craft

    On Percival Everett’s Almost Secret Experiment in a Novel
    in Threes

    By David Lerner Schwartz  August 20, 2020
    Craft

    Caroline Leavitt on Writing the Disconnected Self

    By Caroline Leavitt  August 20, 2020
    Bookable

    Shawn Stewart Ruff on Exploring Racism Through Fiction

    By Bookable   August 20, 2020
    Social Media

    Social Media, Loneliness, and Rabbit Holes to Radicalism

    By Fatima Bhutto  August 19, 2020
    Mighty SONG Writers

    WATCH: Phil Augusta Jackson Wants You to Get Out of
    Your Head

    By Literary Hub  August 19, 2020
    Psychology

    In Defense of Psychoanalysis and Writing Freudian Fiction

    By Jessica Gross  August 19, 2020
    WMFA

    Kat Gardiner on Writing
    While Parenting

    By WMFA   August 19, 2020
    Otherppl

    Nick Flynn on the Long Stints in the Wilderness When Writing

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  August 19, 2020
    Dogs

    Can Dogs Make Us
    Better Writers?

    By Anna Bruno  August 18, 2020
    Religious Nationalism

    How Far Has America’s Christianized Dystopia Strayed From Christ?

    By Lori Lansens  August 18, 2020
    Trauma

    The Inherited Imagination

    By Sammi LaBue  August 18, 2020
    Memoir

    Finding Catharsis in the Story
    of a Family Betrayal

    By Darin Strauss  August 17, 2020
    Otherppl

    Stephen Graham Jones on How Horror is the Puppet of Your Own Terror

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  August 17, 2020
    First Draft

    Ursula Hegi on the Seam Between Bliss and Sorrow

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   August 17, 2020
    Essays

    Can the Essay Still Surprise Us?

    By Suzanne Conklin Akbari  August 14, 2020
    Mighty SONG Writers

    WATCH: Jewel on Battling Anxiety, Living with Dyslexia and Finding Solace in Philosophy

    By Literary Hub  August 12, 2020
    The Internet

    The Internet Has Split Our Sense of Self. Can the Page Reproduce That?

    By Rebecca Watson  August 12, 2020
    The Craft of Writing

    Charlotte Wood on the Subconscious Act of Writing

    By Charlotte Wood  August 11, 2020
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

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

    By Teddy Wayne  August 11, 2020
    On Craft

    The Quest for Kindness is One of Fiction’s Great Challenges

    By Rónán Hession  August 7, 2020
    Memoir

    My Father: The Genius, The Poet, Richard Eberhart

    By Gretchen Cherington  August 7, 2020
    Literary History

    Reading the First Drafts of
    Anna Karenina

    By Bob Blaisdell  August 6, 2020
    Mighty SONG Writers

    WATCH: Jazz Pianist Marcus Roberts Get the Blues and Talks Musical Influences

    By Literary Hub  August 5, 2020
    The Hub

    “Too much exercise!” Read Flaubert’s (very harsh) writing advice for Guy de Maupassant.

    By Emily Temple  August 3, 2020
    Nonfiction

    A Taxonomy of Nonfiction;
    Or the Pleasures of Precision

    By Karen Babine  August 3, 2020
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