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What’s in a Book’s Name? One Writer’s Journey to Finding the Perfect Title
Brook Wilensky-Lanford on the Long, Difficult (Yet Fun) Process of Titling Her New Book,
A God-Shaped Nation
By
Brook Wilensky-Lanford
| June 9, 2026
Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers
Featuring Courtney Maum, Ben Fountain, Deb Olin Unferth and More
By
Teddy Wayne
| June 9, 2026
Lauren Acampora Recommends 7 Books About Deep Human-Animal Connections
With Work by Geraldine Brooks, Takashi Hiraide, Lydia Millet, and More
By
Lauren Acampora
| June 9, 2026
Grief, Rage, and Restraint: Zinzi Clemmons on Telling Her Own Story
Myriam Gurba in Conversation with the Author of
Freedom: Essays
By
Myriam Gurba
| June 9, 2026
In Jane Austen’s
Sense and Sensibility
You Can Be “Demure and Brat All at Once”
Samantha Silva: “Women are asking not who we ought to be, but who we want to be.”
By
Samantha Silva
| June 8, 2026
Josh Weil on the Necessity of Writing What Scares You
Follow the Fear. See Where It Leads.
By
Josh Weil
| June 5, 2026
Best Reviewed
Books of the Week
My Sister Thinks Everything I Write is About Her... Is She the Literary Asshole?
By
Kristen Arnett
| June 4, 2026
A Love Letter to My Hometown: On Revisiting Rural New Hampshire in Fiction
By
Shasta Grant
| June 3, 2026
What Do Arthurian Legend and
All My Children
Have in Common?
By
John Glynn
| June 3, 2026
Lucy Sante on
An Anthology of New York Poets
In Conversation with Michael Kelleher for the Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast
By
Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast
| June 3, 2026
The Sound of Imminence: Ruth Ozeki in Praise of the Typewriter
How She Discovered Her Favorite Writing Instrument
By
Ruth Ozeki
| June 2, 2026
Shakespeare and Reality Televison Really Aren’t That Different
Samantha Allen’s Reality TV Twist on
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
By
Samantha Allen
| June 2, 2026
What Co-Writing a Book on Shakespeare Taught Us About Marriage and Parenthood
Charles O’Malley and Scott W. Stern on Balancing the Demands of Publishing and Family
By
Charles O’Malley and Scott W. Stern
| June 2, 2026
Dead Matter: On Writing From and Beyond the Archives
chaun webster: “I cannot make the record whole. It was not whole to begin with.”
By
chaun webster
| June 2, 2026
Alone on a Mountain in Wyoming Far From Home and Looking for Answers
Alexandra Oliva Goes the Extra Mile to Research the Science in Her Novel,
The Radiant Dark
By
Alexandra Oliva
| June 1, 2026
What It Means to Write a Novel My Mother Can Never Read
Sarah Wang on the Ways Growing Up in an Immigrant Household Has Impacted Her Writing
By
Sarah Wang
| June 1, 2026
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"Strikingly em Ghost-Eye em has none of the eerie mood of a Gothic novel or…"