• Craft and Advice

    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
    Abortion Rights

    Punished for Pregnancy: On the Radical Power of The Millstone by Margaret Drabble in a Post-Roe World

    By Carrie Mullins  May 8, 2024
    craft advice

    Writing With “Sprezz.” On the Art of Saying Just Enough

    By Magdalena Zyzak  May 7, 2024
    Motherhood

    A Daughter Becomes a Mother: On Inhabiting Both Roles in Fiction and in Life

    By Heidi Reimer  May 6, 2024
    Memoir

    On Memoir, Permission, and the Thorny Terrain of Writing About Family

    By Jane Wong  May 6, 2024
    First Draft

    Steve Almond on the Magic and the Craft of Storytelling

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   May 6, 2024
    Write-minded

    Claire Jiménez on the Hardest Emotion to Write

    By Write-minded   May 6, 2024
    Am I the Literary Asshole?

    I Don’t Want to Talk to My Coworker About Their Stupid Writing: Am I the Literary Asshole?

    By Kristen Arnett  May 2, 2024
    The History of Literature

    Boel Westin on Tove Jansson

    By History of Literature  May 2, 2024
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