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The Timeless, Timely Folk Novel: On Writing Fiction Influenced by Folk Songs

The Timeless, Timely Folk Novel: On Writing Fiction Influenced by Folk Songs

Seán Hewitt Explores Folk's Constant, Changing Repository of Stories

By Seán Hewitt | April 15, 2025

The Incendiary Feeling of Freedom: On Phillis Wheatley Peters and the Poetry of Survival

The Incendiary Feeling of Freedom: On Phillis Wheatley Peters and the Poetry of Survival

Tiana Clark: “I believe it is through our collective imagination where we can remain free and where no one can touch us.”

By Tiana Clark | April 14, 2025

Lynne Tillman on Taming Wild Thoughts

Lynne Tillman on Taming Wild Thoughts

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | April 14, 2025

Betsy Lerner on Writing What You Know

Betsy Lerner on Writing What You Know

From the Write-minded Podcast, Hosted by Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner

By Memoir Nation | April 14, 2025

Natalia Theodoridou on Unraveling a Short Story into a Novel

Natalia Theodoridou on Unraveling a Short Story into a Novel

“It gave me permission to indulge myself and my characters.”

By Natalia Theodoridou | April 11, 2025

How to Write a Novel While Driving on the Sam Houston Tollway

How to Write a Novel While Driving on the Sam Houston Tollway

Andy Anderegg on Writing a Book About Escaping When You’re Going in Circles

By Andy Anderegg | April 11, 2025

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Following the “Mom Rule.” On Writing Sci-Fi My Mother Could Get Behind

By Daryl Gregory | April 11, 2025

Maryrose Wood on the Relationship Between Author and Narrator

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By Maris Kreizman | April 10, 2025

Viet Thanh Nguyen on Finding the Foreign in Ourselves and Those Most Like Us

Viet Thanh Nguyen on Finding the Foreign in Ourselves and Those Most Like Us

“That is the joy of otherness, an awareness that even seeing oneself face to face means that the very notion of otherness is present.”

By Viet Thanh Nguyen | April 10, 2025

Babies, Wanted and Unwanted: Five Books That Explore Motherhood, Intention, and Desire

Babies, Wanted and Unwanted: Five Books That Explore Motherhood, Intention, and Desire

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The Annotated Nightstand: What Jon Hickey Is Reading Now, and Next

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Featuring Katie Kitamura, Denis Johnson, Kyle Edwards, and Others

By Diana Arterian | April 10, 2025

Portrait of ChatGPT as a Young Artist: Vauhini Vara on Voice, Tech, and Using AI in Writing

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By Sarah Viren | April 9, 2025

Katie Kitamura Sometimes Falls In Love with Her Characters (and Other Literary Tidbits)

Katie Kitamura Sometimes Falls In Love with Her Characters (and Other Literary Tidbits)

The Author of “Audition” Takes the Lit Hub Questionnaire

By Literary Hub | April 8, 2025

Andrea Long Chu Wants to Write a Dungeons and Dragons Campaign (And Other Goodies)

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Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

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