Anna North Thinks About the Roman Empire All the Time

Anna North Thinks About the Roman Empire All the Time

The Author Explores How Learning Latin Helps Her Untangle History With the Present

By Anna North | October 15, 2025

How Self-Satire Can Act as Catharsis

How Self-Satire Can Act as Catharsis

Sonora Jha on the Challenges of Satirizing a Character Who Reminds Her of Herself

By Sonora Jha | October 15, 2025

Quan Barry on Writing a Horror Novel Set in Antarctica

Quan Barry on Writing a Horror Novel Set in Antarctica

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of “The Unveiling”

By Jane Ciabattari | October 14, 2025

Poetry for Everyone: Remembering Courtney Kampa

Poetry for Everyone: Remembering Courtney Kampa

On Creating a Posthumous Collection That Captures a Vibrant Life and Creative Ethos

By Catherine Pond and T Bambrick | October 14, 2025

Regina Brooks on the Business of Memoir

Regina Brooks on the Business of Memoir

From the Memoir Nation Podcast, Hosted by Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner

By Memoir Nation | October 14, 2025

Pynchon and Splatterpunk in America on <em>The Lit Hub Podcast</em>

Pynchon and Splatterpunk in America on The Lit Hub Podcast

Featuring Oliver Scialdone, Devin Thomas O'Shea, Drew Broussard, and a phone call from Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

By The Lit Hub Podcast | October 10, 2025

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Tawny Lara on Embracing the Sh*tty First Draft

By Tawny Lara | October 10, 2025

The Annotated Nightstand: What Caren Beilin Is Reading Now, and Next

By Diana Arterian | October 8, 2025

Beyond One-Note Nastiness: On Getting Inside the Head of a Despicable Character

By Shannon Bowring | October 8, 2025

A Cross-Genre Trek: How Translation Improved My Debut Novel

A Cross-Genre Trek: How Translation Improved My Debut Novel

Laura Venita Green Explores How Learning Italian Has Made Her English Writing Better

By Laura Venita Green | October 8, 2025

Ayana Elizabeth Johnson on Hope

Ayana Elizabeth Johnson on Hope

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on Thresholds

By Thresholds | October 8, 2025

Why We Write the Extra Details

Why We Write the Extra Details

Kate Cayley on the Intersection of Politics, Art, and the Private Self

By Kate Cayley | October 7, 2025

Patricia Smith on How a Poet Ages

Patricia Smith on How a Poet Ages

Growing Older and Forging Connection Through Poetry

By Patricia Smith | October 6, 2025

What Time Provides: Mining the Creative Unconscious For Inspiration

What Time Provides: Mining the Creative Unconscious For Inspiration

Victoria Redel on Taking Decades to Return To a Once-Abandoned Story

By Victoria Redel | October 6, 2025

How Harassment at the Strip Club Prepared Me For Publishing 

How Harassment at the Strip Club Prepared Me For Publishing 

Michelle Gurule on Writing About Sex Work

By Michelle Gurule | October 6, 2025

“It’s Okay But It’s Also Really Not.” When Dystopian Fiction is No Longer a Thought Experiment

“It’s Okay But It’s Also Really Not.” When Dystopian Fiction is No Longer a Thought Experiment

Yume Kitasei Explores the Different Forms Dystopias Can Take, On and Off the Page

By Yume Kitasei | October 6, 2025

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