• Craft and Advice

    Family Histories

    Mihret Sibhat on the Stories Our Names Tell

    By Mihret Sibhat  July 26, 2023
    Talk Easy

    Roxane Gay on How She Arrived at Herself

    By Talk Easy  July 25, 2023
    Family Histories

    The Burden of Truth: Fictionalizing My Father’s Years at a Federal Leprosy Treatment Center

    By Wendy Chin-Tanner  July 25, 2023
    I'm a Writer But

    Ben Hinshaw on the “Strange Channeling” of Writing

    By I'm a Writer But   July 25, 2023
    Windham-Campbell Prizes

    Jasmine Lee-Jones on Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun

    By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast   July 25, 2023
    The History of Literature

    Jack Zipes on the Political Potential of Fairy Tales

    By History of Literature  July 24, 2023
    Creativity

    What Completism Can Teach Us About the Creative Process

    By Rhian Sasseen  July 24, 2023
    First Draft

    Alice Elliott Dark on the Moral Argument of Fiction

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   July 24, 2023
    Write-minded

    Ben Purkert on the Art of Writing Unlikable Characters

    By Memoir Nation   July 24, 2023
    The Craft of Writing

    Paula Hawkins on Creating a Strong Story Structure

    By Paula Hawkins  July 21, 2023
    On Translation

    The Unique Challenges of Translating The Brothers Karamazov Into English

    By Michael R. Katz  July 21, 2023
    Authors in the Tent

    Michael Connelly on His Path to the Top of the Crime Fiction World

    By Authors in the Tent  July 20, 2023
    The Maris Review

    Sarah Rose Etter on Tech Companies, NDAs, and the Precarity of a Job

    By The Maris Review  July 20, 2023
    Keen On

    Why America’s Blood-Sucking Lords of Silicon Valley Want to Live Forever

    By Keen On  July 20, 2023
    Writing Advice

    You Have to Embrace the Doubt Before You Can Claim Your Authority as a Writer

    By Jennifer Grotz  July 20, 2023
    Keen On

    Nishanth Injam on Leaving India, the Misery of Tech Work and the Subversive Nature of Memories

    By Keen On  July 20, 2023
    Crime

    Colson Whitehead on Blaxploitation Cinema, Sidney Lumet’s New York, and His Own Harlem Trilogy

    By Dwyer Murphy  July 19, 2023
    On Writing

    In Praise of Destruction: How Embracing Elimination Can Make Our Writing Better

    By Stephanie Bishop  July 18, 2023
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Chuck Tingle on How Writing is Like Driving, Being an Autistic Artist, and More

    By Literary Hub  July 17, 2023
    Design

    The Old Becomes the New: Lawrence Sutin on the Art of Transforming Books

    By Lawrence Sutin  July 17, 2023
    First Draft

    Stephen Buoro on How A Clockwork Orange Shook His World

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   July 17, 2023
    Write-minded

    Kellye Garrett Talks About the Idea of Community as Muse

    By Memoir Nation   July 17, 2023
    The History of Literature

    Shin Yu Pai on Ten Thousand Things and the Asian-American Experience

    By History of Literature  July 17, 2023
    The Craft of Writing

    Megan Fernandes on the Literary Uses of a Room

    By Megan Fernandes  July 14, 2023
    On Craft

    Many Voices, Many Truths: On the Benefits of Polyvocal Stories

    By Hannah Michell  July 14, 2023
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