Why Clearing Stormfall <br>With a Chainsaw is a Lot Like Writing Prose

Why Clearing Stormfall
With a Chainsaw is a Lot Like Writing Prose

Claire Thompson Considers the Unlikely Physicality
of Writing (on a Good Day)

By Claire Thompson | December 22, 2025

Sara Martin on Communal Living as a Writing Practice

Sara Martin on Communal Living as a Writing Practice

Or: The Poetry of a Boarding House

By Sara Martin | December 19, 2025

Kat Abughazaleh Swears by Octavia Butler on <em>The Lit Hub Podcast</em>

Kat Abughazaleh Swears by Octavia Butler on The Lit Hub Podcast

Plus, Jonny Diamond reading “A Visit from St. Nicholas”!

By The Lit Hub Podcast | December 19, 2025

Am I the Asshole For Calling Out Romance Novelists Who Don’t Actually Care About Romance?

Am I the Asshole For Calling Out Romance Novelists Who Don’t Actually Care About Romance?

Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior

By Kristen Arnett | December 18, 2025

Can Bibliotherapy Heal the Pain of the World? 

Can Bibliotherapy Heal the Pain of the World? 

Jess deCourcy Hinds on Books as Therapy

By Jess deCourcy Hinds | December 16, 2025

Ruben Reyes Jr. on the Second Person

Ruben Reyes Jr. on the Second Person

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | December 15, 2025

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Kamy Wicoff and Deborah Siegel-Acevedo on The Power of Community

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Six Writers on the Most Surprising Parts of Their Writing Routines

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Maurice Riordan on Writing Rituals, the Creative Imagination, and His Journey as a Poet

Maurice Riordan on Writing Rituals, the Creative Imagination, and His Journey as a Poet

In Conversation with Peter Mishler

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What It Was Like to Publish a Book in This Crazy Year, 2025

What It Was Like to Publish a Book in This Crazy Year, 2025

Maris Kreizman Looks Back at the Year That Was

By Maris Kreizman | December 11, 2025

Diana Arterian on Nadia Anjuman’s Life, Resistance, and Poetry

Diana Arterian on Nadia Anjuman’s Life, Resistance, and Poetry

From Smoke Drifts: Selected Poems

By Diana Arterian | December 11, 2025

What Happens When Gen Z Encounters Catullus’s Filthiest Poem?

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

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

By A. Natasha Joukovsky | December 10, 2025

One Man’s Trash: Reflections on a Failed Novel

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

By Sheldon Costa | December 10, 2025

On Trying to Write About Disordered Eating in the Age of Millennial Therapy Culture

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

By Anna Rollins | December 10, 2025

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