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Why Elif Batuman’s Been Thinking About “Compulsive Heterosexuality”

Why Elif Batuman’s Been Thinking About “Compulsive Heterosexuality”

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | May 26, 2022

In Defense of the Literary Happily Ever After

In Defense of the Literary Happily Ever After

Sarah McCoy on the Restorative Catharsis of a Happy Ending

By Sarah McCoy | May 26, 2022

A Poetics of Risk: On Publishing My Debut Novel in My 60s

A Poetics of Risk: On Publishing My Debut Novel in My 60s

Lisa Russ Spaar Explores the Pleasures of Finding New Ground

By Lisa Russ Spaar | May 26, 2022

Sarah Ruhl Tries to Look at Grief Through the Lens of Form

Sarah Ruhl Tries to Look at Grief Through the Lens of Form

A Conversation with the Author of Love Poems in Quarantine

By Literary Hub | May 25, 2022

Jon Mooallem Writes in the Morning (Before the World Snuffs Out His Brief Glimmer of Positivity)

Jon Mooallem Writes in the Morning (Before the World Snuffs Out His Brief Glimmer of Positivity)

The Author of Serious Face Takes the Lit Hub Questionnaire

By Literary Hub | May 25, 2022

Andrea Marcolongo on How Running Fuels Her Creative Process

Andrea Marcolongo on How Running Fuels Her Creative Process

“I go out to run so that I can write, and I write so that I can run.”

By Andrea Marcolongo | May 25, 2022

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Elif Batuman on the Need For Novels (And When Male Writers Describe Oral Sex)

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Looking for Answers After the Murder of a Dear Friend and Little Brother

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Jen Silverman on Re-reading, Making a Tarot Deck, and Other Kinds of Escape

Jen Silverman on Re-reading, Making a Tarot Deck, and Other Kinds of Escape

“I can feel in my bones when a book and a person would match.”

By Literary Hub | May 24, 2022

Omer Friedlander and Joshua Henkin on Writing with a Sense of Place

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“When you find the right detail ... it comes to life.”

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Christian J. Collier on Chasing Obsessions and Crafting Poetry as Film Directing

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How Virginia Woolf and J.A. Baker Helped Me Write a Trans Memoir

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Remembering the Kindness and Master Storytelling of Editor and Author George Hodgman

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Gabe Montesanti on Her Friend and Mentor

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How Contemporary Chinese Literature Made Western Modernism Its Own

How Contemporary Chinese Literature Made Western Modernism Its Own

Yan Lianke on the Concept of “Mythorealism”

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In Praise of the Unhappy Happy Ending

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