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
  • Fiction and Poetry
  • News and Culture
  • Lit Hub Radio
  • Reading Lists
  • Book Marks
  • CrimeReads
  • Log In
When You Take a Sailing Trip for Novel Research and It’s a Total Disaster

When You Take a Sailing Trip for Novel Research and It’s a Total Disaster

Amity Gaige Nearly Gets Lost at Sea

By Amity Gaige | March 24, 2021

Which one is correct: O.K., OK, ok, or okay?

Which one is correct: O.K., OK, ok, or okay?

By Jonny Diamond | March 23, 2021

Learning to Go With the Flow, in Rafting and in Writing

Learning to Go With the Flow, in Rafting and in Writing

Andrew J. Graff on the Hard Work of Staying Loose

By Andrew J. Graff | March 23, 2021

On Writing Flawed, Inconsistent, Forgivable, Inspiring, and Damaged Afghan Characters

On Writing Flawed, Inconsistent, Forgivable, Inspiring, and Damaged Afghan Characters

Nadia Hashimi Writes the Book She Would Have Liked to Read

By Nadia Hashimi | March 22, 2021

On Fighting For Space in the Literary World as a Black Canadian Writer

On Fighting For Space in the Literary World as a Black Canadian Writer

Cheryl Thompson is Grateful for the Wisdom of Toni Morrison

By Cheryl Thompson | March 22, 2021

Our Memories, Ourselves: On Getting an Unexpected Note from a Childhood Bully

Our Memories, Ourselves: On Getting an Unexpected Note from a Childhood Bully

Sofia Lundberg Considers How the Past is Always Shaping Our Futures

By Sofia Lundberg | March 22, 2021

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • The Things We Never Say
  • John of John
  • Ghost Stories: A Memoir
  • Look What You Made Me Do
  • Backtalker: An American Memoir
  • Glorious Country: How the Artist Frederic Church Brought the World to America and America to the World

On the Pact That Helped Me Finally Finish My Book... After Four Decades

By Margaret Hermes | March 19, 2021

Jen Spyra on Balancing the Zany with the Emotional

By The Literary Life | March 19, 2021

Lauren Willig on Recounting the Everyday Heroism of WWI War Relief

By New Books Network | March 19, 2021

Elon Green on Centering Victims Rather than Killers

Elon Green on Centering Victims Rather than Killers

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | March 18, 2021

Sixty Years of Tracking Publications... and Rejections

Sixty Years of Tracking Publications... and Rejections

Jay Neugeboren on Coming to Terms With What Matters in a Life of Writing

By Jay Neugeboren | March 18, 2021

Imagining Isolation: When the Plots of Your Fiction Spill Into the Real World

Imagining Isolation: When the Plots of Your Fiction Spill Into the Real World

Paul Lynch on Life and Literature in COVID Lockdown

By Paul Lynch | March 18, 2021

Finding Home: On the Journey Back to Writing as a Single Mother

Finding Home: On the Journey Back to Writing as a Single Mother

Kelly McMasters: “My own writing, meanwhile, was like a distant song.”

By Kelly McMasters | March 17, 2021

Tell Don’t Show? What Brain Imaging Reveals About Readers

Tell Don’t Show? What Brain Imaging Reveals About Readers

Lisa Cron on What We Really Want From a Story

By Lisa Cron | March 17, 2021

Esmé Weijun Wang on the Physical and Visceral Act of Writing

Esmé Weijun Wang on the Physical and Visceral Act of Writing

From the Thresholds Podcast, Hosted by Jordan Kisner

By Thresholds | March 17, 2021

Talia Hibbert on Inviting Disabled, Chronically Ill, and Neurodivergent Characters into Rom-Coms

Talia Hibbert on Inviting Disabled, Chronically Ill, and Neurodivergent Characters into Rom-Coms

This Week on the Reading Women Podcast

By Reading Women | March 17, 2021

« First‹ Previous233234235236237238239240241Next ›Last »
Page 237 of 340
    • How Jane Austen Influenced Modern Detective FictionMay 12, 2026 by Lucy Andrews
    • Tiffany Hanssen on Tony Soprano, Writing Antiheroes, and Fictionalizing Family MembersMay 12, 2026 by Gabrielle Bellot
    • David Bergen on Patricia Highsmith, Backstories, and Why Tom Ripley's Character WorksMay 12, 2026 by David Bergen
    • The Things We Never Say
    • The Best Reviewed Books of the Week
    • "She s not a minimalist but Elizabeth Strout does more with less than any writer…"
  • 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

  • If you buy books linked on our site, Lit Hub may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores.