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What Happens When Gen Z Encounters Catullus’s Filthiest Poem?
“Reading wakes us up to love, culture, grief, war, a range of possibilities too vast to name, and also to great discomfort.”
By
Rachel DeWoskin
| December 10, 2025
The Publishing Industry is Capricious... Gamble on Yourself
A. Natasha Joukovsky on Why the Sole Aim For Any Novelist Should Probably Be a Posthumous House Museum
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A. Natasha Joukovsky
| December 10, 2025
One Man’s Trash: Reflections on a Failed Novel
Sheldon Costa on Trash Bashing, Working With His Hands, and Extricating His Writing from His Self-Worth
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Sheldon Costa
| December 10, 2025
On Trying to Write About Disordered Eating in the Age of Millennial Therapy Culture
Anna Rollins Wonders If Mothers Get Too Much of the Blame
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Anna Rollins
| December 10, 2025
Colm Tóibín on What It Means to Return to an Idea 20 Years Later
The Backstory and Creative Process Behind
A Long Winter
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Colm Tóibín
| December 9, 2025
Am I a Better Ceramicist Than Novelist?
Brendan Mac Evilly on Figuring Out How To Be an Artist
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Brendan Mac Evilly
| December 8, 2025
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#ReadingAfrica: Three Literary Artists Celebrate African Visual Storytelling
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Literary Hub
| December 8, 2025
Laura Vanderkam on Making Time to Write
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Memoir Nation
| December 8, 2025
Short Story Advent Calendars & Remembering Tom Stoppard on The Lit Hub Podcast
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The Lit Hub Podcast
| December 5, 2025
Sophie Newman on What You Can Learn About Writing by Watching
Survivor
“As a writer, you cannot and should not shield your characters from being seen in all their messy glory.”
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Sophie Newman
| December 5, 2025
Losing My Southern Accent and Searching for a Link to My Past
Emily McCrary-Ruiz-Esparza on the Sound of Her Grandparents‘ Voices and Growing Up in North Carolina
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Emily McCrary-Ruiz-Esparza
| December 4, 2025
My Friends Won’t Let Me Into Their Writers’ Group: Am I the Literary Asshole?
Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior
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Kristen Arnett
| December 4, 2025
On the Infinite Lives of the Library
Steve Edwards Loves Nothing More Than Library Hours
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Steve Edwards
| December 4, 2025
The Annotated Nightstand: What Marci Vogel is Reading Now, and Next
Featuring Joy Harjo, Myriam Gurba, Hua Hsu, and More
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Diana Arterian
| December 4, 2025
The Radical Write: How a Medieval Catholic Mystic Inspired My Debut Novel
Janet Rich Edwards on Marguerite Porete and the Power of Unconventional Faith
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Janet Rich Edwards
| December 3, 2025
3 Ways to Become a Better Reader
Hwang Bo-Reum on Little Ways to Cultivate Your Reading (and Writing) Life
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Hwang Bo-Reum
| December 3, 2025
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