• Craft and Advice

    Audiobook Narration

    On the Difficulty of Narrating the Audiobook for Your Own Memoir

    By Freda Love Smith  October 4, 2023
    Tor Presents: Voyage Into Genre

    No Place Like London: V.E. Schwab, Lina Rather, and Oliver Darkshire

    By Tor Presents: Voyage Into Genre   October 4, 2023
    Book Anniversary

    Khaled Hosseini on the 20th Anniversary of The Kite Runner

    By Khaled Hosseini  October 3, 2023
    Talk Easy

    Zadie Smith on Radical Work

    By Talk Easy  October 3, 2023
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    If Lydia Davis Wasn’t a Writer, She’d Devote Herself to Climate Activism

    By Lydia Davis  October 2, 2023
    Write-minded

    Kayvion Lewis on Writing What Lights Your Fire

    By Write-minded   October 2, 2023
    First Draft

    Etaf Rum on Exploring Herself Through Her Characters

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   October 2, 2023
    The History of Literature

    Shilpi Suneja on Writing After Salman Rushdie

    By History of Literature  October 2, 2023
    Romance

    Why Online Dating Spells the End of the Meet Cute

    By Lauren Forsythe  September 29, 2023
    The Craft of Writing

    Isle McElroy on the Art of the Sex Scene

    By Isle McElroy  September 29, 2023
    Sexual Assault

    You Too? Kim DeRose on Telling and Retelling Stories of Sexual Assault

    By Kim DeRose  September 28, 2023
    The Maris Review

    Aparna Nancherla on Writing as a Procrastinator

    By The Maris Review  September 28, 2023
    Genre

    The Rules of the Game: How Genre Can Illuminate Theme

    By Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu  September 27, 2023
    On Writing

    The Diving Suit and the Bathtub, or: How a Single Image Sparked a Whole Novel

    By Steve Stern  September 27, 2023
    Craft

    Hermione Lee on Mavis Gallant, “Unerring Stylist”

    By Hermione Lee  September 26, 2023
    Writing the Novel

    How Nora Fussner Turned a Reality TV Job Into a Novel

    By Nora Fussner  September 26, 2023
    Talk Easy

    Jake Tapper on What Happens to People Who Get Power

    By Talk Easy  September 26, 2023
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Ken Follett Wants His Books to Feel as Exciting as James Bond

    By Literary Hub  September 25, 2023
    Motherhood

    Maternal Vertigo: Molly Lynch on Chaos, Childcare, and Civilizational Collapse

    By Molly Lynch  September 25, 2023
    Utopias

    Another Possible World: Jen Silverman on Imagining Dystopias and Utopias

    By Jen Silverman  September 25, 2023
    The History of Literature

    Marsha Gordon on Ursula Parrott’s Fascinating Life

    By History of Literature  September 25, 2023
    Write-minded

    Tzivia Gover on Dreaming and Writing

    By Write-minded   September 25, 2023
    The Craft of Writing

    Beth Nguyen on Taylor Swift, Edith Wharton, and Creating a Double Perspective

    By Beth Nguyen   September 22, 2023
    Spirituality

    Their Own Promised Land: Halle Hill on Good Women and the Spirituality of Girlhood

    By Halle Hill  September 21, 2023
    The Maris Review

    Kristi Coulter on Being Inside Amazon in the Early Days

    By The Maris Review  September 21, 2023
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