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Isaac Chotiner on Deep Knowledge and Gotcha Interviews

Isaac Chotiner on Deep Knowledge and Gotcha Interviews

In Conversation with Merve Emre on The Critic and Her Publics

By The Critic and Her Publics | September 1, 2026

Eight Simple Rules for Dating Your Historical Fiction

Eight Simple Rules for Dating Your Historical Fiction

Paraic O’Donnell Offers a Primer on Effectively Situating Your Novel in the Past

By Paraic O'Donnell | August 28, 2026

Help, My Writing Group Thinks My Latest Story Was Really Funny: It Wasn’t Meant to Be

Help, My Writing Group Thinks My Latest Story Was Really Funny: It Wasn’t Meant to Be

This Week, Kristen Arnett Answers Questions About Bad Editors, Novel Draft Panic, and Writing Group Anxieties

By Kristen Arnett | August 27, 2026

The Letter Doula: How to Help a Life Arrive on the Page

The Letter Doula: How to Help a Life Arrive on the Page

Ronda Beaman Offers Some Tips For Expressing Our Most Intimate Thoughts on Paper

By Ronda Beaman | August 27, 2026

Stories From Memory: On Finding Inspiration in My Husband’s Moroccan Family

Stories From Memory: On Finding Inspiration in My Husband’s Moroccan Family

“The past belongs to no one, and as such, it also belongs to everyone.”

By Elizabeth Letts | August 27, 2026

S. Shakthidharan on Hermann Hesse’s <em>Siddhartha</em>

S. Shakthidharan on Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha

In Conversation with Michael Kelleher for the Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast

By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast | August 26, 2026

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Agnes Callard on Socrates’s Turf

By The Critic and Her Publics | August 25, 2026

Dorthe Nors on Striving to Write Emotionally Resonant Fiction

By Dorthe Nors | August 24, 2026

Fiction as a Filter: On Writing the American West’s Water Crisis

By Claire Boyles | August 24, 2026

Christelle Dabos on Empathy, Doing Good, and How We Fill Ourselves Up

Christelle Dabos on Empathy, Doing Good, and How We Fill Ourselves Up

“What if every human being were born with an irresistible need to do good?”

By Christelle Dabos | August 24, 2026

A Literary Haunting: What the Ghost of Sylvia Plath Taught Me About Grief

A Literary Haunting: What the Ghost of Sylvia Plath Taught Me About Grief

“What haunts us doesn’t need to harm us, but can instead help guide us through what feels too difficult...”

By Abigail Rose-Marie | August 21, 2026

Television to the Rescue! Camille Acker on the Craft Potential of TV

Television to the Rescue! Camille Acker on the Craft Potential of TV

More Like Literary Box

By Camille Acker | August 21, 2026

Edwidge Danticat Wishes Her Former English Teachers Would Read Her Work

Edwidge Danticat Wishes Her Former English Teachers Would Read Her Work

The Author of Dèy Takes the Lit Hub Questionnaire

By Literary Hub | August 18, 2026

After Six Decades and Thirty Novels Jodi Picoult Was Missing One Thing: A Tattoo

After Six Decades and Thirty Novels Jodi Picoult Was Missing One Thing: A Tattoo

“With age comes the luxury of being unapologetically yourself. A silver lining, if you will, for the silver-haired.”

By Jodi Picoult | August 17, 2026

Miranda July, Jamel Brinkley, and More on Their Favorite (Re)reads

Miranda July, Jamel Brinkley, and More on Their Favorite (Re)reads

The Case for Dipping Back In

By Literary Hub | August 14, 2026

How Octavia Butler Encouraged Me to Write My Novel

How Octavia Butler Encouraged Me to Write My Novel

“We need your voice.”

By Clarence A. Haynes | August 14, 2026

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