Literary Hub
Literary Hub
  • Craft and Criticism
    • Literary Criticism
    • Craft and Advice
    • In Conversation
    • On Translation
  • Fiction and Poetry
    • Short Story
    • From the Novel
    • Poem
  • News and Culture
    • History
    • Science
    • Politics
    • Biography
    • Memoir
    • Food
    • Technology
    • Bookstores and Libraries
    • Film and TV
    • Travel
    • Music
    • Art and Photography
    • The Hub
    • Style
    • Design
    • Sports
  • BUY A HAT
  • Lit Hub Radio
    • The Lit Hub Podcast
    • Awakeners
    • Fiction/Non/Fiction
    • The Critic and Her Publics
    • Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast
    • Memoir Nation
    • Beyond the Page
    • First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing
    • Thresholds
    • The Cosmic Library
    • Culture Schlock
  • Reading Lists
    • The Best of the Decade
  • Book Marks
    • Best Reviewed Books
  • CrimeReads
    • True Crime
    • The Daily Thrill
  • Log In
  • Craft and Criticism
    • Literary Criticism
    • Craft and Advice
    • In Conversation
    • On Translation
  • Fiction and Poetry
    • Short Story
    • From the Novel
    • Poem
  • News and Culture
    • History
    • Science
    • Politics
    • Biography
    • Memoir
    • Food
    • Technology
    • Bookstores and Libraries
    • Film and TV
    • Travel
    • Music
    • Art and Photography
    • The Hub
    • Style
    • Design
    • Sports
  • BUY A HAT
  • Lit Hub Radio
    • The Lit Hub Podcast
    • Awakeners
    • Fiction/Non/Fiction
    • The Critic and Her Publics
    • Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast
    • Memoir Nation
    • Beyond the Page
    • First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing
    • Thresholds
    • The Cosmic Library
    • Culture Schlock
  • Reading Lists
    • The Best of the Decade
  • Book Marks
    • Best Reviewed Books
  • CrimeReads
    • True Crime
    • The Daily Thrill
  • Log In
Will Self: In Praise of Difficult Novels

Will Self: In Praise of Difficult Novels

Modernism is Still the Best Way to Reflect Our World Back to Us

By Will Self | February 7, 2018

Confessions of a Typewriter Addict

Confessions of a Typewriter Addict

One Person's Junk is Another's Treasure

By Anthony Casillo | February 5, 2018

What Ursula K. Le Guin Meant to Me: Four Writers Remember

What Ursula K. Le Guin Meant to Me: Four Writers Remember

How a Legendary Writer Made Lives Better

By Literary Hub | February 5, 2018

A Few Words of Indispensable Advice from Muriel Spark

A Few Words of Indispensable Advice from Muriel Spark

"Beware of men bearing flowers."

By Muriel Spark | February 1, 2018

Let's Talk About the Fantasy of the Writer's Lifestyle

Let's Talk About the Fantasy of the Writer's Lifestyle

The Undying Trope of Glamorous Decay is Basically an Anthropologie Catalog

By Rosalie Knecht | January 31, 2018

Our Obsession with Lost Books, And How They Often Disappoint

Our Obsession with Lost Books, And How They Often Disappoint

Tim Wirkus on the Tension Between What is Anticipated and What is Delivered

By Tim Wirkus | January 31, 2018

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • The Pelican Child: Stories
  • Languages of Home: Essays on Writing, Hoop, and American Lives 1975-2025
  • On the Calculation of Volume (Book III)
  • The Ferryman and His Wife
  • Empire of Orgasm: Sex, Power, and the Downfall of a Wellness Cult
  • Mexico: A 500-Year History

Paris's Literary Hotel, a Room (and Writer) for Each Letter of the Alphabet

By Matt Grant | January 31, 2018

Nonfiction As Queer Aesthetic: Discovering Myself, Discovering My Art

By Dave Madden | January 30, 2018

How Nursing Led Me Back to Writing

By Emma Glass | January 29, 2018

Ursula K. Le Guin's Best Life Advice

Ursula K. Le Guin's Best Life Advice

America's Greatest Writer Has Died

By Emily Temple | January 24, 2018

10 Other Literary Writers We'd Love to See with Weekly Columns

10 Other Literary Writers We'd Love to See with Weekly Columns

Who Will Follow Elena Ferrante? (Rabih Alameddine? Maggie Nelson? Please?)

By Emily Temple | January 23, 2018

How Being a Librarian Makes Me a Better Writer

How Being a Librarian Makes Me a Better Writer

Xhenet Aliu on the Fine Art of Controlled Vocabularies

By Xhenet Aliu | January 23, 2018

Great Advice From 25 Writing Manuals by Famous Authors

Great Advice From 25 Writing Manuals by Famous Authors

Q: What’s the key to suspense? A: I’ll tell you later.

By Emily Temple | January 22, 2018

How to Write a #MeToo Story

How to Write a #MeToo Story

Alison B. Hart's 12 Steps, From Beginning to End

By Alison B. Hart | January 19, 2018

How Alice B. Toklas Found her Voice Through Food

How Alice B. Toklas Found her Voice Through Food

On Writing Her Own Cookbook, After Gertrude Stein

By Justin Spring | January 18, 2018

I Am Different Now from the Person I Wrote in My Memoir

I Am Different Now from the Person I Wrote in My Memoir

Is a Published Memoir the Last Word?

By Molly Caro May | January 18, 2018

« First‹ Previous225226227228229230231232233Next ›Last »
Page 229 of 259
    • There is now a Sesame Street Knives Out Pastiche, Called "Forks Out."December 3, 2025 by Olivia Rutigliano
    • Masterpiece Mystery has a New Mystery!December 3, 2025 by Olivia Rutigliano
    • Tracy Clark on Writing a Black Female DetectiveDecember 3, 2025 by Tracy Clark
    • The Pelican Child: Stories
    • The Best Reviewed Books of the Week
    • "The stories in her hypnotic collection em The Pelican Child em are painterly and provocative…"
  • Literary Hub

    Created by Grove Atlantic and Electric Literature


    Masthead

    About

    Sign Up For Our Newsletters

    How to Pitch Lit Hub

    Advertisers: Contact Us

    Privacy Policy

    Support Lit Hub - Become A Member