• Craft and Advice

    Write-minded

    Charif Shanahan: The Mystery Is the Clarity

    By Memoir Nation   May 16, 2023
    First Draft

    Abraham Verghese on Medicine’s Innate Connection to Storytelling

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   May 15, 2023
    Writers in Conversation

    Don’t Boss It Around: Abigail Thomas on Writer’s Block, Confronting Fear, and the Joys of Aging

    By Mira Ptacin  May 15, 2023
    On Translation

    Like a Magic Trick: Tim Mohr on Being the Translator and Being Translated

    By Tim Mohr  May 15, 2023
    Keen On

    Telling the Same Story Differently: Terry McDonell on Writing About His Mother, Irma

    By Keen On  May 15, 2023
    Mother's Day

    How To Write About Your Mother

    By Terry McDonell  May 12, 2023
    The Craft of Writing

    John Wray on the One Book That Has Helped Him Become a Better Writer

    By John Wray  May 12, 2023
    What to Watch

    Garth Risk Hallberg Goes Behind the Scenes of the City on Fire Adaptation

    By Garth Risk Hallberg  May 11, 2023
    Keen On

    Stephen Marche Explains Why Technologies Like ChatGPT Will Make Creators More Valuable Than Ever

    By Keen On  May 11, 2023
    Otherppl

    Isabella Hammad on Finding Inspiration in Hamlet

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  May 11, 2023
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    The East Palestine Train Derailment and Your Health: Kerri Arsenault on the Pervasive and Ongoing Risks of Dioxin

    By Fiction Non Fiction  May 11, 2023
    Art History

    On Victorian Paleoart and the Birth of a Sci-Fi Novel

    By C.E. McGill  May 10, 2023
    On Theater

    How Hamnet the Play Rehabilitates Shakespeare’s Wife

    By Andrew Quintana  May 10, 2023
    Otherppl

    Dave Eggers: “The Freedom of the Artist Has to Be Absolute.”

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  May 10, 2023
    Talk Easy

    Dave Eggers on Writing from the Subconscious

    By Talk Easy  May 9, 2023
    Artists in Conversation

    Ada Zhang on the Complexity of Capturing Immigrants’ Lives in Fiction

    By Belinda Huijuan Tang  May 9, 2023
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

    By Teddy Wayne  May 9, 2023
    Family Stories

    Fae Myenne Ng on the Blurred Boundaries Between Memory and Story

    By Fae Myenne Ng  May 9, 2023
    I'm a Writer But

    Jane Wong: How Non-Linearity Mirrors the Experience of Migration

    By I'm a Writer But   May 9, 2023
    So Many Damn Books

    Brendan Slocumb on Diving Into the World of Musicology for His New Historical Musical Thriller

    By So Many Damn Books  May 9, 2023
    Writers in Conversation

    Matthew Cheney on Literary Misdirection and Hiding Truth in Fiction

    By Jeff VanderMeer  May 8, 2023
    Behind the novel

    On Anne Frank, Oskar Schindler, and Writing a Documentary Novel

    By Buzzy Jackson  May 8, 2023
    First Draft

    Passing Through Porous Boundaries: Mai Nardone on Navigating Thai and American Culture

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   May 8, 2023
    Otherppl

    How the Bestseller Lists Work

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  May 5, 2023
    Keen On

    Leah Johnson on Why It’s More Important For Kids to Save Themselves Than to Save the World

    By Keen On  May 5, 2023
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