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Storytelling Across Genre: On Being an Anishinaabe Poet in a Fiction Writer’s World

Storytelling Across Genre: On Being an Anishinaabe Poet in a Fiction Writer’s World

“I write fiction with a poetic inflection because I have honed my poetry muscles over decades.”

By Kimberly Blaeser | October 8, 2026

Trans Becoming and the Failure of Language

Trans Becoming and the Failure of Language

“As trans people, each articulation of who we are is also an articulation of who we will no longer be.”

By Sanam Sheriff | October 7, 2026

Why Barbara Kingsolver Writes Standing Up

Why Barbara Kingsolver Writes Standing Up

The Author of Partita Takes the Lit Hub Questionnaire

By Barbara Kingsolver | October 6, 2026

How a Lightning Strike Affected My Identity—And My Main Character’s

How a Lightning Strike Affected My Identity—And My Main Character’s

Nafissa Thompson-Spires on Being a Live Wire

By Nafissa Thompson-Spires | October 6, 2026

We Banned the Soul from the Building: On AI, Spiritual Life, and Sustainable Practices for Writing

We Banned the Soul from the Building: On AI, Spiritual Life, and Sustainable Practices for Writing

“AI will improve, but it will never develop the capacity for genuine longing, grief.”

By Charlotte Donlon | October 5, 2026

“You Have to Love It.” Brittany Cavallaro on Writing for Young Adults

“You Have to Love It.” Brittany Cavallaro on Writing for Young Adults

The Author of Wayfarers on Writing, Teaching, and Listening

By Brittany Cavallaro | October 2, 2026

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Do Smartphones Belong in Fiction?

By Ankur Thakkar | October 2, 2026

The “Mutually Confounding” Relationship Between Librarian and Researcher

By Matthew J. Prigge | September 29, 2026

William T. Vollmann on Trying to Excavate American Foreign Policy From the Cold War to the War on Terror

By William T. Vollmann | September 28, 2026

Why Ghosts Are Haunting Us in 2026 (For Real)

Why Ghosts Are Haunting Us in 2026 (For Real)

Tara Badstubner on Our Fascination with the Spectral Realm

By Tara Badstubner | September 28, 2026

Got Writer’s Block? Go to the Theater!

Got Writer’s Block? Go to the Theater!

Amy Fusselman Recommends Her Favorite Unconventional Writing Practice

By Amy Fusselman | September 25, 2026

I’m Having a Hard Time Saying No: How Can I Be More of a Literary Asshole?

I’m Having a Hard Time Saying No: How Can I Be More of a Literary Asshole?

In Which Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior

By Kristen Arnett | September 24, 2026

Sanna Wani on Crafting a Poetics of Daughterhood

Sanna Wani on Crafting a Poetics of Daughterhood

“There was the daughter I had been and the daughter that I was becoming. Both went hand in hand with poetry I was writing.”

By Sanna Wani | September 24, 2026

What Learning to Paint and Reading <em>The Elements of Style</em> Have in Common

What Learning to Paint and Reading The Elements of Style Have in Common

Susan Coll on Letting Your Mind Wander Outside the Box

By Susan Coll | September 23, 2026

10 Essential Ukrainian Reads, From Memoir to Novel

10 Essential Ukrainian Reads, From Memoir to Novel

Sasha Dovzhyk Recommends Lesia Ukrainka, Victoria Amelina, Olena Stiazhkina

By Sasha Dovzhyk | September 23, 2026

In Praise of Lost Time: On a Poetics That Subverts Linear Chronology

In Praise of Lost Time: On a Poetics That Subverts Linear Chronology

Laura Kolbe: “Having an intimate, almost sensual relationship to the clock is the derangement.”

By Laura Kolbe | September 23, 2026

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